As it is now if a new player buys the Standard Edition they get more for their money than an existing player would buying Ultimate.
With Path of Fire you need to buy the deluxe edition to get one. Lets look at it, We bought the game before PoF, we got our 5 slots. People buy PoF, get the core game for free that has 5 slots.
Would be reasonable to say existing players should get 5 slots free with the standard edition. Giving the full core game to new players is already giving them more than they give existing players everything they'd get other than a new account if they bought the core game again. It's still less than they are giving to new players. 5 new slots, or a free 4000 gems seeing as one slot is 800. Instead you need to buy deluxe to get one slot or ultimate to get the 4000 gems worth. Still unfair, A new player can get ultimate for the same price, gets 5 character slots and the 4000 gems. Seems reasonable to me to say that they should do their best to give existing players as close to as much value for money for the expansions as they are new players.
Maybe I'm wasting my time talking bout what is reasonable, this is Arenanet we are talking about, a company that prides itself for being one of the most unreasonable companies for existing players in video game history.