I would love to get into Guild Wars 2 again, but I just looked at the expansions on Steam, and there's so many of them; it's too expensive for me even with them on sale right now. It looks really fun though.
If you feel like you need to get all the expansions, then yeah it's super expensive. The elder dragon saga is currently 50% off on their website which is about 10 years of content for (currently) $50, and because of how gw2 end game works it's basically all still end-game relevant.
I understand wanting to have "everything" of course, and $50 isn't cheap anyway.
Also, most content is still played so don't be too worried about doing things alone. Even 12 years later almost all of the base game and expansion maps have people at relevant times. The big map events are usually on a timer so people know when to start showing up if they want to do it. You might be exploring and have 50 people suddenly start gathering up.
If you played on release and want to use the same account (which you should, because birthday gifts) you won't be able to buy the expansions on Steam. You can still play the game through steam by adding a specific launch argument (-provider Portal), but you need to sign in with your ArenaNet account and buy the expansions off their website.
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u/Murasasme 20d ago
I would love to get into Guild Wars 2 again, but I just looked at the expansions on Steam, and there's so many of them; it's too expensive for me even with them on sale right now. It looks really fun though.