shouldnt they drop the price of the old chapters?

As a late comer to GW, I think it would be great for retailers to drop the price on older chapters. While I am waist deep in both Factions and NF, I wouldn't rule out curling up with Prophecies on many rainy winter nights and just henching the whole campaign. (of course, i'm assuming not many players are still in Tyria..) But... i'm not really interested in buying an old game for full retail price, y'know?

Unless they're leftover stock, its the SE, not the CE that is still around of Prophecies for £9.99. I've not seen a CE since release, but I have heard play.com still has them.

The way I see it - any Guild Wars you buy is still funding the operation of the servers, so I actually don't see any good reason for a major price drop, unless it's a voucher/rebate system for people who buy more than one installment.

For that same reason, I don't think we should have to put up with the drop in support for older chapters. Newcomers who pick up Prophecies or Factions should be getting the same double drop etc weekends, as people who bought Nightfall, because they are often putting in the same investment.

Since Anet doesnt have any monthly fees, all their profit is from selling the games, so i guess thats why the prices havnt gone down....

Do you know how many people still play Prohpecies!!!!!

The price for Prophecies has dropped about 10$ in Estonia. I say about 10, because i don't remember the exact conversion (so it costs somewhere near 35$ here). Anyways, i'm gonna buy Prophecies before Nightfall, since i don't already have it. Sure Nightfall has heroes and lip-synch and dervish, but Prophecies has skills that i need to make some builds more useful. Simple as that.

So yes, it depends on the places the games are sold.

Compusa is selling a 3 campaign bundle with a $45 price break
http://www.compusa.com/products/prod...ars:_Nightfall

They should released triology pack somewhere in the future.. as the other games have (Gold, platinum edition etc)

You can get some pretty good deals at Play.com:

Prophesies SE: £14.99
Prophesies Special Edition: £17.99
Factions SE: £17.99
Factions CE: £37.99
Nightfall SE: £17.99
Nightfall CE: £37.99

*SE=Standard Edition, CE=Collectors Edition.

If you are a new player to Guild wars, you have a choice between 3 chapters, which to you, all look pretty much the same (Just with different features). They all have pretty much the same amount of content, so why should one just be cheaper?

The £14.99 one is the original release (which could be called the "Standard Edition"), but the one at £17.99 is only a "Special Edition" re-release, not the "Collectors Edition" - which isn't available anymore. It does have some extras, but it's not the CE.

This all rings true to me minus prophecies... Continued versions of the game should run full price... However i think that if you own say factions or nightfall you should be able to buy the prophecies story campaign for extremly cheap... Reason being that alot of the content you supposidly got originally with prohphecies comes with the other chapters....

If you take it all away prophocies is a game with NO professions and NO skills.... It is only a story line... There is no extra game elements...

So if it wasn't for the fact that they cannot undercut the retailers in the onlin store.. I would do it like this...

You go to the store and the only thing offered is "Guild Wars" this would be considered the core version this would come with one "campaign" which is just the story line(basically what they already do)... This would be your most expensive purchase since it comes with the core guild wars already... Then you can buy online any future campaigns that go on top of this, or go to the store where the price is smaller for just a campaign upgrade... More or less its like a real expansion rather then a stand alone...

That may seem confusing but all im really saying is you could buy either Stand alone editions of the games, or expansion editions of the games...

I own all the D&D style RPG computer games. As of now, they are very dated as far as game engine goes and no one would ever pay anywhere near original retail for any of them. This is what everyone is used to having.

The GW line is completely different. The original game that you downloaded back in 2005 is not the same one a new purchaser would download today. And if you buy Prophecies in another 12 months, it will have changed immensely again.

So, as you are not purchasing an "outdated" game, why should you get bargain prices.

i own them all already.... My only thing is from a perspective of a new player/buyer.... It's intimidating to know I have to pay 150 bucks for a game... The reason I say that is because the way I play and buy games is in entirety... When I bought Diablo II for instance, I bought it with the expansion... I waited till i could afford both before buying either... The way I look at guild wars is... If I didnt have an account, I'd need 150 bucks in order to start playing again... Thats not good business... People will be turned off from it...

I do think once Chapter 4 comes out (since NF is the end of the 1st "trilligy" if GuildWars) they will start do bundles or make the MSRP $29.99 or less at the least. That would force retailers to lower there price if they haven't done so.

They should drop price for previous chapters and release some sort of triology pack in near future.

i went to Ebay and for a Prophecies CE edition -- pretty decent buy -- though, there are hardly any left available to purchase.

If that's they case, they are mission out on a LOT of content....maybe go play Sims online (sarcasm)

$150 before you start playing? Do you know how long it will take you to get thru prophecies if you don't cheat & get ran thru areas? You will have plenty of time to earn money for the next chapter before you finish the first. Just enjoy each storyline without going over to the next one prematurely.

Bandwidth & servers are not cheap, nor are the people that maintain them, that's why you don't get Guildwars cheap....if you think that is expensive, go play WoW. I think the game has hit a low of 19.99-29.99 U.S. Dollars.....but it's still about $12-15 per month to play....so that's about $165 a year at least....and if you want to keep playing after a year, you still pay monthly fees or prepay for several months....the entertainment I get vs the money I spent on these games was well worth it.

Also, if you are looking here in the U.S. for Prophecies, look for the Game of the Year edition, you get some nice max weapons & off hands & I got mine for the same price as the non GotY edition. Also, I saw plenty of people selling on ebay cheap. Even if they already played, you can just pay them for the login & you download the client from GW. Just delete the toons they have & start over.

Online Store!!! 39.99$

Why should I pay monthly fees for a game that I play with henchmen? Go visit Tyria sometime, you obviously are not there... as with everyone else.