Evil Avatar News: I was under the impression that the Guild Wars business model is to continuously release expansions; why are we now getting a standalone product?

JS: Our plan was never to ship expansions. When we think of expansions, we think of a product that requires the original game in order to play – it has a couple of new monsters, a couple of new playables, quests, missions, and things like that. In terms of the scope of the content, these are very much on par with the original game. So both by nature of the fact that you can play them without the original and also just the share amount of content, they really are full games. So that’s been our model since the beginning, to not charge a subscription fee, but to instead release content on a very regular basis (twice a year). That really gives our player the choice, they can buy what they want when they want, whether they’ve been playing or not.