Guild Wars 2

Usually, when you buy something ‘in bulk’, the cost per unit lowers. e.g. buying a pack of four cans of baked beans is more cost efficient than buying single cans (but requires greater initial outlay).

This system works, plain and simple; shops and supermarkets have been using this pricing technique for years for a very good reason.

I’m not complaining about the cost of gems per-se, but where’s the encouragement for me to buy gems in a larger quantity?

I want to support this game and I’m about to buy some gems for the first time. However, as there is no reason for me to buy any more than the lowest number (800), that’s all I’m going to buy.

Apologies if this has been covered before, but in all seriousness I think that Anet needs to re-think this. It doesn’t have to be a huge reduction in unit cost, just something that promotes a degree of encouragement. If I could save 50p or a £1 by buying 1,600 gems I probably would do. So, instead of receiving say £16 from me, ANet will instead receive £8.50.

Yep that’s pretty basic stuff, if ANet isn’t doing it, means they don’t need the money, more power to them :P

I agree with you, all companies have it (as far as i’m aware) and I they don’t feel that they need the money. as of this day there is no reason why i should buy for more than 10euro.

while this tecnicue encourage the “casual player” becaus you can buy the lowest amount but still feel that you getthe same money as anyone else.

but idk… Its just wierd they dont have it. all have it even lol and other games that relies on micro trans.

I think that their theory behind this was to make gems a sort of hard currency where you always knew what their value was.

Because you’re able to trade in game gold for Gems, you need a set real world value for the gems so that you know exactly what you’re getting for the exchange price.

For instance, someone who buys 800 gems for 4 gold knows that he just bought $10 worth of gems using in game currency. If those 800 gems came from someone who bought gems in bulk and got a discount, the value he’s getting will actually end up being less due to the discount.

Or something like that.

Basically, the gems have to have a set value in order for the currency exchange to function the way that ANET intended it to. Especially since coding in discounted gem prices into their magical Gem→Gold price calculator thingy would probably be a pain.

yeah i that’s the reason.

Yeah that makes sense (although economics makes my head spin at the best of times). I hadn’t considered the gold-buying aspect of gems. Cheers :-)

Yeah, I still don’t get it. If someone wants to spend $50 US on gems they should get more than 4,000 Gems. I mean why not? They bought in bulk for the discount. The spent a larger sum to get something extra.

Frankly 800 Gems for $10 is a ripoff anyway, at least at the prices on the Gem market. And I’m not talking about the Gold for Gems market.

no. There are no economies of scale. There are no reduced transportation or packaging costs. Everything in the TP is effectively a stock. The TP is an uncontrolled stock market and subject to the same manipulation schemes.

if gems were affected by economy of scale you would have people parting them out.