So, if you have a main account and you want to give a boost to your free account, it’s possible to mail things across. Your free account won’t have access to your private guild bank even if you give it guild bank permissions, nor can you use the trading post to buy crafting supplies or anything else such as weapon sigils to help you level. Nor can free accounts send items or gold through the mail system, but they can receive items and gold this way. This is a lot cheaper than buying extra bank space using gems. Many players including myself have a private “storage guild”, with a guild bank serving to add extra storage space and a way of moving certain goods between accounts. The main drawback of a free account is the lack of trading and guild bank access.

I did cheat a bit by mailing some crafting supplies over from my main account to help me with leatherworking and jeweling, but these things are easy to gather anyway even without trading post access. What would the game be like with nothing? At time of writing I have my fresh sylvari ranger at L75, 5 levels away from the L80 cap. The new player experience has changed a lot in 3 years since I started playing and new characters on my main account get spoiled a lot by all the resources I have to offer them. But you know, I was also keen to experience the game again from scratch. I confess to making a second, free account to have a bit of nostalgia. An opportunity for old players to relive the newbie experience. For now that means you can join in on the original Guild Wars 2 for free, but with certain restrictions to prevent mischief. The paywall would be formidable! ArenaNet have foreseen this problem and have decided to charge for their latest expansion only, with the previous version going free.

Imagine when Guild Wars 2 is on it’s 10th expansion or something, a brand new player having to buy the previous 9 expansions plus the core game just to join in. Keeping the entry barrier low for new players.ĪrenaNet are pushing their latest expansion, Heart of Thorns, but they don’t want this massive paywall turning people off. ArenaNet have traditionally marketed Guild Wars 2 as buy-to-play and this hasn’t changed, so their entry into free-to-play is a little different to normal. I even got to meet the developers in 2007 at PAX, Seattle, way back in 2007 and they were a really great bunch of people. I’ve played the Guild Wars franchise for over 10 years now, so I know the game and I know the company.

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