Who thinks Halloween fireworks are expensive?
If the buff is the reason for the high price. Then why was the Crown Pavilion buff free?
Well, that’s why I don’t buy them.
If I’m going to spend any gems on them, they should be everlasting, or a lot cheaper. How about 1 for 1 gem, and 5 for 5 gems?
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-On3Ya0_4Y)
With so many people endlessly farming in a loop with a zerg, they can afford it.
The problem comes when you are not a farmer. The prices are set considering the biggest earners. And that kind of forces the rest to play like that to earn so much if they want to get the same stuff big earners do within the same time.
In my case, I only pay if the item is a permanent unlock like character slots, or at least everlasting.
They are actually cheap if you compare them to bond fires and they do the same thing with MF to a group.
Bonfires are too expensive too. But they are more for guilds. Guild can easily ask for donations to pay for them.
Fireworks are more for fun or should be. Adding the buff takes some of the fun out of the item by make players work for it.
Bonfire price should drop now. Since Anet decided that this buff is worth less.