Guild Wars 2

I sincerely hope this sort of thing stops.

First it was the xmas minis that were at least forge-able even though their worth weren’t even a 10th of what they actually cost, but instead of letting players with repeated minis sell as part of the economy, anet decided they should be cheap repeated minis we couldn’t do much with.

Then the karma chest balthazar mini, on the occasion the chest doesn’t give us junk+ karma, the chest gives us a junk mini we can do nothing with.

Now they decided to flood the market with ‘exotic’ reef riders that are anything but, unlike the drakeling, karka hatchling and karka mini that were rare and forge-able, they decided to go for this useless venue and for what? Just because they throw orange colored items at us doesn’t necessarily make players happy if they aren’t worth anything.

I give up comprehending anet’s sense of economic management

I didnt get all minis at the beginning now I have no interest anymore in getting them.
I believe some other players like me get demotivated soon if they cant get all.

Maybe they sell more over the gemstore in a short period, but I really hate items that are only accessable through special events at special times.

U can have 1 karmamini for all your twinks, isnt that awesome? At least we can sell the exotic Reefrider…it can always be worst, atleast most times

Craft/mystic forge minis wasnt such a bad idea in my opinion….next winter I can get the 3 remaining and then I have all 5 (normal winter minis)

Demigott.4150:

I didnt get all minis at the beginning now I have no interest anymore in getting them.
I believe some other players like me get demotivated soon if they cant get all.

You can get all, the rarest is probably the Molten event mini which is still on sale at the TP but not sure to happen again, every other is either still obtainable or sure to make a seasonal comeback.

The problem is that I think they are doing part of this wrong, why eliminate the trade factor in so many of these items? If they sometimes chose to sell minis as a seasonal trio pack like halloween, SaB then thats fine, because they will be back if you missed it.

But then there’s the Xmas minis, people paid good money just to be unlucky either to not get from the winterbox or get repeats, why not let us trade? Having repeats of these do nothing, throwing them in the mystic forge is a money sink because the quaggan isnt tradeable if you already got one, and if you get random mini back they are worth way less.

And thats just a part of the broken system.

I’m not a huge mini fan. I hate getting a mini that I know people want that I won’t use. I’d love to be able to sell it, but if that’s not possible for whatever reason, could we at least have a way to gift it to someone? I’d rather give it away than destroy it.

There is a reason for the choices and it boils down to money mostly…

Xmas, you got toy frames for the 5 endless tonics, and enough cogs to make 3 pets, so to unlock it ALL, I made the tonics and bought all 5 pets… the last couple days to the event they add a toy frame vendor in and I got screwed out of 1200 gems.

Bottom line is they wanted the actual $$$

Spring mini’s, same thing… and then they re-release them for 2 days to milk more cash from them.

Bottom line, they wanted the actual $$

Fire Ministorm was so rare, a lot of people bought gems to convert to gold (same with the backpack) meaning, due to screweing a lot of people out of earning the content they deserved to originally have… they were making $20-50 per person wanting to buy one off the trading post.

Bottom line, they wanted the actual $$

Mini Reef Rider… i’m pretty sure this was a mistake, considering there is a few 1,000 in the game right now for a “Limited Time” pet… i think their predictions were far off because it’s way too common.

matty.1052:

I’m not a huge mini fan. I hate getting a mini that I know people want that I won’t use. I’d love to be able to sell it, but if that’s not possible for whatever reason, could we at least have a way to gift it to someone? I’d rather give it away than destroy it.

Doubt it, this would just create a way to sell them via trust trading and be pointless.