20 slot hallowen bag...
To be fair, they can’t make it TOO cheap or it’d crash the market for 20 slot bags. (Although it’s worth noting that basically everybody used Fractal Relics to get their 20 slot bags anyway…) Still, I’d rather that the 20 slot bags were made easier to get (say, 1000 – 5000 candy corn, which is a hefty amount, but still doable), and then restricted to one per character (if 5000) or account (1000).
To be fair, they can’t make it TOO cheap or it’d crash the market for 20 slot bags. (Although it’s worth noting that basically everybody used Fractal Relics to get their 20 slot bags anyway…) Still, I’d rather that the 20 slot bags were made easier to get (say, 1000 – 5000 candy corn, which is a hefty amount, but still doable), and then restricted to one per character (if 5000) or account (1000).
And if you didn’t use relics, then it was only 10g and some scraps of useless leather that have been carpeting your bank for the past year.
Finally I recalled the stopgap solution of a great princess who was told that the
peasants had no bread and who responded: “Let them eat brioche.”
peasants had no bread and who responded: “Let them eat brioche.”
ANet still not playing their own game? Incoming random number and call it a challenge……now!
I have enough space on my main but that last bag slot is only a 15’er so 5 extra slots would be nice. 15 thousand corn though lol, hold on, let me readjust my life so I can dedicate it to GW2’s fun holiday.
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To be fair, they can’t make it TOO cheap or it’d crash the market for 20 slot bags. (Although it’s worth noting that basically everybody used Fractal Relics to get their 20 slot bags anyway…) Still, I’d rather that the 20 slot bags were made easier to get (say, 1000 – 5000 candy corn, which is a hefty amount, but still doable), and then restricted to one per character (if 5000) or account (1000).
It could be OK for 1 per character (unique) for like 1k candies or even 2,5k, but lets make it real, no one will farm those candies without a reason and price will still be made by the TP, so making that obtainable for like 1k candies would make candy corn worth like 10c which is low but in the other hand players would not farm 1k corn per character, it could be nice way, but not something like we get it here…
ANet still not playing their own game?
Sadly looking at numbers it seems so.
To be fair, they can’t make it TOO cheap or it’d crash the market for 20 slot bags. (Although it’s worth noting that basically everybody used Fractal Relics to get their 20 slot bags anyway…) Still, I’d rather that the 20 slot bags were made easier to get (say, 1000 – 5000 candy corn, which is a hefty amount, but still doable), and then restricted to one per character (if 5000) or account (1000).
I don’t understand your post at all. The event is here for 4 weeks, so where is the harm in having 20 slot bags be around or lower than 10g? That won’t crash the market at all. People will be able to get a 20 slot bag, the game won’t get mass amounts of hate like its doing, and players might actually talk positive about the game a little. Right now its just showing the ignorance of Anet.
Meh, it’s not about making them easy to get: it’s about making them at least on par with other 20 slot bags, lawl. Is it so hard to get? Why should I buy more for these bags instead of buying one off the TP, tell me?
Candy corn will probably drop to 2-5 copper a piece anyways. that will fix it
Halloween bag is WAY too expensive and too time consuming. Time spend farming candy corn could be spent in much more fun ways like in WvW, dungeons or champ farm and get more profit(and buy/craft yourself the bag).
I know they can’t be too cheap, but come on. It’s Halloween event. Let us have a bit of fun and reward as at the end. Don’t make us farm like a madmen, anet.
Economic efficiency aside, I agree with the OP’s main point that the event’s preview made it seem like the 20-slot candy bag would be easier or cheaper to obtain than other types of 20-slot bags. Obtaining 15,000 pieces is hardly easy: the least tedious method would be purchasing them on the TP and that requires posting at least 60 buy orders of 250 pieces each. While that might be simple enough in theory, I find it hard to argue that it would be fun. (I got bored and gave up after posting orders for 3,000 pieces.)
About the price of candy corn: last year, you could buy as much as you wanted for 2 copper until the second week of December. I don’t expect that to change much this year, although there are some new uses for the candy (including the 20-slot bag). Source: spidy.
About the total cost: if you pay 1c for each piece, that’s 15,000 copper, i.e.150 silver, i.e. 1.5g (not 15g as stated above). The Candy Corn 20-slot bag will be cheaper than the 20-slot superior rune (never mind the 20-slot bag) as long as the price of candy is a bit below 7c/piece. I do expect candy corn to reach (and stay at) that price range some time toward the beginning of November, if not before.
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The economic goal for it should be this:
It should take an equal amount of cash to buy Candy Corn off the TP, convert it, and buy the bag that was, as it is to buy a crafted one. 20 slot bags seem to be going for about 11g right now, so we’d be looking at around 1500 Candy Corn pieces in total. This may seem a bit unfair for crafted bags, but keep in mind that it would be a limited time offer, only available over the course of the festival. It would be an even better deal for those that earned the corn, as they would not have to pay the TP fees involved in accumulating or selling them off.
The current rate for them is just insane though. My only possible explanation is that someone dropped a decimal point someplace and all the recipes are 100-1000 times what they were intended to be.
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you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”
you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”
Illconceived Was Na is correct.
The cost of the bag, should candy corn drop to a mere 1 copper per piece, is only 1.5g. Not 15g.
Oh, right. I made a mistake.
I’m sorry for that, yet it still is a disappointing farm event…
the cobs can drop from mobs.. so 15 cob drops = bag.. no gold needed
the cobs can drop from mobs.. so 15 cob drops = bag.. no gold needed
I’ve been running in labyrinth quite a bit yesterday and today. No drop and nobody posted in chat that they had a drop either. So yea it’s not that simple.
Newsflash, candy corns won’t drop to 1copper each. As soon as they reach the 6-7c mark, people will start putting up buy orders. Cause it will be 9-10g per 20 slot bag. And it has the bragging rights of people pinging it in LA mapchat. People won’t mind spending 10g on a ‘limited time bag’, even though they cost the same as regular ones.
Mark my words, you will NOT get a 20 slot bag cheaper than the current 10g pricing. If there is no update or anything done about the requirements.
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wanted to add something else here: I expected a “Pail” icon not some reused bag icon. I know this probably seems like a minor point. But for 15k (or any more reasonable price) you would like it to look different from your other bags.
I suppose that it does look different but it certainly doesn’t look like a pail. Could just be that I envisioned a “pail” and it looks like a bag. Most won’t care I’d imagine.
I’m really disappointed here.
You announce something cool and then make it worthless.
I understand that it has to be hard to get and you don’t throw away free stuff in here but it should be worth something at least. Now it’s an empty reward.It was the same in Dragonbash, no one would ever use candies to get wings cause it was way to expensive. Why bother then to add something totally not usable by players?
This is what has me so disappointed by the new token rewards. It’s worth remembering that if I do the storyline, I’ll end up with a Mini Candy Corn Elemental and a Candy Corn mining node for my home instance, both of which are great. If I do Mad King Says, I’ll get a Mask of the Night, which isn’t bad. The other rewards, however, are so dramatically out of reach for the average player that I think most of us would be happier if they weren’t even offered, much less announced and then revealed to be out of our reach.
I mean, maybe supply of the needed items will go up, but I’m skeptical it’ll still be affordable for anyone who wasn’t already rich. At least Dragon Bash let pressure of the Jorbreakers by dropping Holographic Wings randomly.
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They need to remove a zero from the cost of cobs.
Halloween bag is WAY too expensive and too time consuming. Time spend farming candy corn could be spent in much more fun ways like in WvW, dungeons or champ farm and get more profit(and buy/craft yourself the bag).
I know they can’t be too cheap, but come on. It’s Halloween event. Let us have a bit of fun and reward as at the end. Don’t make us farm like a madmen, anet.
I dont get it either, it was in WvW last year. Not sure why they left it out.
Over a year and the forum search is still broken = /