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I agree, if things go smoothly this weekend that would be a big buzz immediately for me. I will be letting friends/family know that how this weekend goes, whether they should pre-purchase or not. They've been burned before with Warhammer and SWTOR.
What happens when you log off your characters????.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFQhfhnjYMk
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I don't think so. More likely that most people were purchasing direct from anet and the purchasers want to sell copies too. If the beta were truely limited they'd stop selling full stop. Not saying that's a bad thing. Businesses need to stay afloat as well especially in todays climate.
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It will be back for sale just right after this beta-event.
They just stopped cause they propably have enough people to make current number of server full + it is great marketting tool to sell more right after this weekend - cause it will be "buy fast or you might not make it for next beta-event'
LOOOOOOOOL
"if we max out our beta server capacity, we may *temporarily* make pre-purchase unavailable until we can bring more capacity online"
Source : http://www.facebook.com/GuildWars2/posts/10150710638754209
Thats not how it works. A.Net gives a set number of codes to retail sites. When those sites run out A.Net sends them more. Now, that A.Net has stop prepurchases they will not send more codes to retail sites. Each code that A.Net sold to retailers was already factorered into the total number of pre-purchases sold.
probably you are right. I just don't think it is a ploy to make people buy CE editions like the OP suggested.
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Ya no. I am sure most CE are sold out already. I do know of a lot of people that are going to be unhappy about this. They were going to wait and see how Friday turned out and than buy it on Saterday if the news was good.
edit: sry I misread you.
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Nothing like artificially limiting the supply of a (theoretically) infinitely distributable product to increase demand. How classy. If any other company did this (like Blizzard, EA, THQ, etc.), people would be calling for blood. But since Arenanet can apparently do no wrong, everybody's cool with it. UGH.
Though I've got to hand it to them, it's brilliant marketing at least.
read it already thanks though
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Agreed. I think this is exactly the case. For pre purchases prior to the first BWE they probably had a number limit and apparently, they've reached it. I take this as great news! This tells me that so many people have pre purchased GW2 in NA that they had to stop selling them prior to at least the first BWE, in order to be able to fulfill their promise of BWE access.
The fact that Anet stopped sales of their digital copies in NA tells me that they care more about doing things right (and well) than just selling copies without end. Thank you Anet.
This post is gold right here.
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If it's good enough for Harley Davidson, it's good enough for Arenanet.
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When your head is stuck in the sand, your ass becomes the only recognizable part of you.
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Or maybe they just want to ensure a good service for those in beta and study the data they recibe to increase the number of servers and improve performance. But yes, you seem to be right... they are limiting the number of unlimited digital copies to increase demand...
DIGITAL editions sold out. Thats not possible. All it really comes down to is a game code.
This is marketing spin pure and simple. ArenaNet trying to get headlines by claiming it has sold out.
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Looks like Best Buy still have some digital copies atm. Not sure how good they are to buy from though.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp;jsessionid=26AB43B92A3B86835CF8C118EAE78DEF.bbolsp-app01-08?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=1421802484166971556&id=pcat17071&type=page&st=guild+wars+2&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=15&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960
What happens when you log off your characters????.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFQhfhnjYMk
Dark Age of Camelot
Supply and demand... economics 101. Rednecksith, you sound as if this surprises you, if you think this is a new technique by Anet, just go to any store, in the street and/or online. Supply and demand has been around long before the invention of currency. It is not just a trick up the sleeve of those evil and greedy capitalist, it is a basic and fundemantal aspect of trade. Simple as that. Welcome to the real world Rednecksith :-)
or they are controlling the amount of people in the beta to make sure sure the beta runs smoothly... it was said from the start this would happen.
Sorry! Guild Wars 2 is currently soldout.
To ensure the highest quality service we have temporarily limited the number of copies of Guild Wars 2.
As more capacity becomes available, we will make Guild Wars 2 available for sale again.
In the meantime, we encourage you to visit our retail partners , who may still have copies available.
they are basicaly full of people that the server can handle is not trick of marketing or BS troll if you work manage the server you know what its going on ,of course they need to cancel the sells they got more people than expected
Other than the forums where people like you and me (with no life) hang out, where are those headlines?? Of course its a marketing technique and most likely it has to do with what they're aiming to do with the first BWE. What are they teaching these kids these days about economics! too much occupy wallstreet haha
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Marketing 101 its amazing how many people don't unerstand how it works.
A. You limit the amount of supply.
B. You create hype to sell your limited supply
C. Because supply is limited demand looks extremely high.
If you live in the US you know exactly what this is. OPEC limits oil production to increase stock price therefor increasing oil cost and the price we pay at the pump. The only difference is Anet isnt doing it to charge more they're doing it to create more hype and news. Believe me if they wanted they could let everyone in beta they have the experience and hardware to do so.
But it isn't marketing, and it especially not hype! It just isn't, the internet people have said so.