Guild Wars 2

I’m sorry normally I like the things that are offered in the Gemstore, but the Nodes are not one of them. First, they are pricey and still overpriced for what is offered. Second, the description in the Blog news and the icons in the gemstore shop suggest that you get more than is offered.
Here is the text from the news:

Basic Harvesting Node Pack

Grow a vegetable garden of your very own with the Basic Harvesting Node Pack! Once you’ve used this item, you can visit your home instance once per day per account to gather from a Vegetable Plant, Root Plant, and Herb Plant!

Even the icon in the gemstore suggests a little garden. What do we get instead? Three plants (no new models) hovering a bit above stone/cement ground. This is not a garden. This is a rip-off. This is the top of lazyness. Even more so you don’t even know through the gemstore what plants you will get and how much. In reality, you can harvest the three nodes once per account per day and you will get random results, no control whatsoever. That is misinformation and very close to false advertising in my opinion.

For 800 gems, meaning 10 Dollars/Euros!, I expect more. I expect a real little garden with fitting ground texture and additional decoration around it, a overall better arrangment/location, more than 3 nodes and the control over what I harvest. Heck, I expect the option to actually grow something for the next day.
You had the chance to do something with it and instead you chose, again as with the previous node packs, to do a fast money-grab. Disappointing.

You paid for 3 plant nodes and you got 3 plant nodes. You’re upset about the aethetics and it not lookng like a garden patch? Have you not seen how they’ve done all of the other nodes?

You expect more than 3 nodes, when the text you quoted says specifically which 3 nodes you’ll be getting?

I don’t see where in that description anyone in their right mind could ever get the impression that you could actually control what you harvest.

While it is true they could have done so much more with that, it can also be said that had they done so (with more work involved) they probably would have priced it a lot higher.

Yeah, I’m confused about the false advertising that you claim as well.

It seems you got exactly what you paid for.

Remember that troll back in the day who was selling the “Portable clothes dryer”. Advertised it could fit anywhere with minimal installation and effort. They were selling it for like $50. Turns out it was a length of rope and 2 nails. IIRC, they couldn’t be punished for false advertising, as he never showed pictures or gave a description.

You received exactly what you bought. No one ever claimed, nor implied, it had certain aethetics, or would give a certain type of vegetable/root/herb when harvested.

While I do agree that some better thought should have gone into the DR placement (seriously? They’re just growing straight out of the pavement??), I think you’re blowing this out of proportion. The nodes can be easily moved in a future update, the same way they did for the Krait Obelisk.

It would also be nice if u got 3 things from each plant everyday. Today I got 3 vanilla beans, 1 yam and 1 zucchini. that does seem a bit harsh when u get at least 3 ores from each node and 3 logs form each tree and yet the price is the same for all the gathering nodes.

If I could plant them myself in my own little patch, I"d even buy them (same for the trees), overpriced or not.

It’s a shame Anet can’t require “reading” as a minimum requirement for the game. There have been a lot of complaints come up that turn out to be user error.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

If I could plant them myself in my own little patch, I"d even buy them (same for the trees), overpriced or not.

Would be really cool if you could “plant” your own crops and then harvest them daily. (Of course, you can bet that I’d be planting stuff like Chili Peppers and Lemongrass. XD)

Nodes that are or were fairly unique, like the Krait Obelisk (technically not a node), candy corn, quartz, and clockwork nodes are very much worth having. Spending 800 gems to buy a node of stuff I would not stop to harvest in the open world is a waste of money in my opinion. If it was ancient wood or orichalcum, I might consider it.

This type of node is mostly for the collectors, the person that has to have that permanent pass to some place that’s not that much better than Lion’s Arch or the person that has to have entire sets of minis.

Zaxares.5419:

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

If I could plant them myself in my own little patch, I"d even buy them (same for the trees), overpriced or not.

Would be really cool if you could “plant” your own crops and then harvest them daily. (Of course, you can bet that I’d be planting stuff like Chili Peppers and Lemongrass. XD)

Behold Farmville Wars 2!!!

Silvercyclone.1462:

It would also be nice if u got 3 things from each plant everyday. Today I got 3 vanilla beans, 1 yam and 1 zucchini. that does seem a bit harsh when u get at least 3 ores from each node and 3 logs form each tree and yet the price is the same for all the gathering nodes.

The nodes are identical to their “wild” cousins – always random.

Not false advertising. I bought it just after it was released in the gem shop. I get random veggies every day. Though I wish the quantity was increased. I get 1-3 vegetables per node each day and that’s it.