Since Arenanet seems to be utterly useless in the email department, perhaps someone here could help me out: I played GW1 once upon a time, and had… Star Wars ™: The Old Republic™ offers a Galaxy of possibilities for all players: Play for free up to level 60 and enjoy the original Class and planetary storylines plus the Rise of the Hutt Cartel and Shadow of Revan digital expansions. Former subscribers and players who have purchased Cartel Coins are known as Preferred and have fewer 33K views 3 years ago. This is the start of a series explaining the limitations of free to play in Guild Wars 2! Rather than briefly listing them, I'd like to talk a bit about how each Anyway, what I'm saying is, Guild Wars isn't afraid to carve it's own path, and that makes for some amazing ideas. The only caveat is that you have to change how you look at MMOs a bit, as WoW formed our expectations. Also, while I'm commenting, I want to add that 1-80 and the personal story, while highly enjoyable, can drag for some players. PvP has always been free in gw2. Pvp is free for core specialisations. ie. You need an expansion for thr elite specs and other players will be using them. Feel free to jump into it but you will likely get curb stomped. People who said here that pvp was always free are not fully right. I upgraded my account, but the game is still acting as though I’m on a free account! After you upgrade a free account, you’ll need to exit the game and re-log to see your permissions change. Note that there’s also a longer delay (up to five days) before mail attachments, the Black Lion Trading Company, and guild banks are unlocked. It’s a mix of three outfit designs put together: the Aurora chest, legs, and boots the Queen’s Mask and the Conjurer Mantle. Basically, he’s a sort of Human playing as a Vampire. You can play for free with some limitations but it’s well worth it to buy the expansion that opens up a whole new world of gameplay options! Fribbtastic. •. Guild Wars 1 concept was and is buy-to-play. Guild Wars 2 is "play-for-free"! There is a small difference IMO between "free-to-play" and the "play-for-free" even though those sound similar. Usually, a free-to-play game is something you, well, can play for free completely and only have microtransactions in the game for Qotzohh.