Guild Wars 2

With ever increasing gem prices, it would be nice if Anet tried to encourage more gem->gold conversion. A buy with gem button next to listed items would make a convenient way to see how much a listed item would cost if bought with gems.

not a bad idea at all.
decimal places might make it tricky (buying a 40s ecto for 1 gem). I’m guessing it would just give you the difference as money in your bank like how buyiny/selling gems currently does. (if you say you want to buy 1g worth of gems, you might get 6 gems, but you’ll also only spend 97s50c)

The raising prices for gold to gem is not Primarily because people are sitting on gems. It is because no one is buying gems with $$.

Mystic.5934:

not a bad idea at all.
decimal places might make it tricky (buying a 40s ecto for 1 gem). I’m guessing it would just give you the difference as money in your bank like how buyiny/selling gems currently does. (if you say you want to buy 1g worth of gems, you might get 6 gems, but you’ll also only spend 97s50c)

I imagine it would be exchange minimum amount of gems to cover purchase price with the change going into your bank.

The point is to get people to buy more gems. If they see that the option is either to farm an other month because the precursor price just jumped again, or throw 100$ and get the item now, maybe a few more would spend the money.

Everyone benefits from it.