Living World Content

[Gideon]

Suggestion: Steam should offer Living World Content as addon for those that already own the Main Expansions/DLC. Only way to get Living World is to rebuy the expansions/dlc in the Complete Saga or through the over priced Black Lion Trading. Would be helpful for those that purchased the basic Expansions/DLC and would like to continue the other story lines.

[SinisterSlay]

So basically allow buying gems on steam

[Nibbie]

Originally posted by Gideon:

Only way to get Living World is to rebuy the expansions/dlc in the Complete Saga or through the over priced Black Lion Trading.

Why do you think the price would be any different on here? Also, being on the gem store means you can subsidize your purchase with gold to gems conversion, or even buy them entirely through that method.

Regardless, while I can't say this for sure, I think the reason they don't do that is because of Steam's technical limitations. All but one of the living worlds requires owning an expansion to access, but I don't think Steam has the ability to restrict buying DLC unless you own other DLC. Thus, you could have people buy content they can't use unless they buy more content, and I imagine that is the situation they are trying to avoid.

[Nico]

I don't think you can buy the complete edition once you bought any part of it. I think it only lets you gift it to someone else, not buy it for yourself.

Also, I think the reason why they won't allow it is because they're worried that some players might purchase the Living World twice, since GW2 has no way to tell Steam that you bought it ingame already.

[Fienyx]

Just started playing at the beginning of April, bought HoT/PoF bundle 2 days later. Just added $60 to Steam Wallet, bought the gems, bought all the LW, EoD, Secrets and Icebrood. So $90 ish on a game I will easily put over 1000 hours in (already at nearly 300) per character. Just started my second to take a little break from LW S2.