Guild Wars 2

Mr Snotty Pants.3980:

As a customer, why do I care if it is NCSoft or NEXON?

Because Nexon doesn’t care about its customers and can’t be reasoned with. Might as well point fingers at the right people.

So you’re saying there is no hope?

I’m not taking this personally. I’m trying to figure out if this is a blunder or money-grubbing dishonesty. Until then – not logging in.

Mr Snotty Pants.3980:

So you’re saying there is no hope?

I’m not taking this personally. I’m trying to figure out if this is a blunder or money-grubbing dishonesty. Until then – not logging in.

I can’t see how this is anything but intentional. This is not kindergarten, ANet is a company with some years and experience behind it, something like this does not get the go-ahead without being intentional.

I am disgusted about this but not surprised. I expect more of this in the future. And will be keeping my money as far away from ANet as I can.

Very bad, if I need 500 gems.
Bring back the old exchange.

I won’t spend money under this model regardless of intentions….. I have spent quite the amount and have been happy with every transaction in the past. I wont do it now. This is not right. For this one patch to make this many players do complete 180s on their stance concerning this business model…. I just hope this has a happy ending

“..to be quicker to use and easier to undersand.”

Don’t you think that you are insulting our and new player’s intelligence too much, Anet?

Horrible decision.

For kittens sake.

This destroys how I buy gems. I like to buy them a little at a time with a percentage of my total gold each day. Sometimes I would buy larger chunks if the exchange rate was good, but mainly just a few gold at a time. I wouldn’t mind if the lowest increment was less than 400, but when I look at that 80 gold price tag for 400 Gems, I realize I don’t want that thing I thought I wanted anymore. 10 or 20 gold I would drop at a time to bank up – maybe a little more, but not 80. New players are screwed.

Behellagh.1468:

First how is this making more money for ANet since we are talking about exchanging game currency for Gems.

Second the minimum purchase size for gems in gold is half what it is with cash.

That said it’s still stupid. Yes some players requested a means to buy an exact amount of gems without playing guessing games but it’s easy enough to do the calculation based on what they wanted to buy, not limited tiers. And we can’t even sell the exact amount of gems we have.

You want to offer tiers, fine but give us an “advance trade” button to get to the old interface or one where we can specify the amount of gems we want to buy or sell as well.

because anet makes money from people buying things from the gem store regardless if its gold or gems, the currency exchange ensures that. ( i know you dont believe this from previous discussions, but its accurate)
having people with excess gems regardless of the source will overall make them buy more.

people being able to make change with gold, also undermined their buy 800 gems at a time style system.

they will make more money per player this way. However they may lose players.

my guess is the large spike in gem cost is the algorithm over correcting for the new disparity in gems/gold influx, so as to make sure they dont take in gold at a value they cant recover.

Official Thread

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Lets-talk-about-the-new-Gem-conversion-Merged/first

This system seriously sucks. Being able to choose a set amount of gems would be great – if WE could choose the amount. Prefixed options only are complete crap. And not being able to see the price history to decide to buy now or hold off due to a spike? Major loss of functionality and transparency. Bring back the old system until you can actually make an improvement, because this isn’t one!

Hi everyone,

We already have a thread dedicated to this topic here.

Therefore, we’ll now close this one in order to avoid duplicates and invite you to repost your comments, questions and concerns in the thread linked above.

Thank you!