Guild Wars 2

Is there a way to make money from the Gem Store without making it so obvious you’re putting the squeeze on your player base? Listen, I understand the fact that some of us are tickle pink with everything. Props to you guys. Be happy. THIS player has to vent a little here.

Since day 1 of playing GW2 I never understood why stacks of items peaked at 250. I also never understood why Legendary weapons and Ascended Weapons required way more of an item amount than you could carry in a stack. At first I thought it had to do with adding (foolishly) a “grind” to the game. After seeing the idiotic amounts of “Pile Of Bloodstone Dust” (no trade or sale) and the convenience item to increase stacks I know now I was being kind in my assessment. I paid for bank space, I paid for inventory space. Stacks too now? I would have preferred that from the beginning.

I would rather be charged a subscription fee or some up front DLC fee for content + bells and whistles than be yanked around so I have to (“oh but you don’t HAVE tooooo”) spend money in the gem store. I personally feel it’s two-bit and low brow. It gave me that nasty cheap F2P feel I got from Neverwinter before I cleaned that brothel bed sheet of a game off my HD.

Be creative, make your revenue but don’t be trashy about it. I feel like what ANet has done with Ascended Items, increasing crafting levels (like it was some accolade) and all the other grindy stuff is lacking class. You can write my words off or move it to another forum or moderate it, but come 2014 players are going to have some other AAA title options. Keep it classy. Thanks.

It’s not a big deal what so ever. I feel no need to get this. If I’m going to want an item for speculation, I’m going to want more than 1k. If I don’t want it for speculation, I just sell it at 250 (so that I can deposit more).

I see nothing wrong with them offering this to players that want the extra convenience of it stacking to 1k for whatever reason.

Granted it’s more focussed on single player games, but I feel it’s still relevant to this topic…

I paid for bank space, to store all the junk (And some of it I didn’t even know what it was for), all account bound rubbish, in the end I just deleted the lot of it.

They keep adding more useless junk just to fill your bank space up.

Last MMO I played only let you stack to 25. I’m kind of amazed they let us stack to 250.

If you have a single crafting profession leveled to 450 you can craft those mats into bricks, ingots, and stars. What blows my mind is how they aren’t selling bricks, ingots or stars already on TP. Even cosmetics like Sombreros, Flying Carpet mounts (similar to the Flying Brooms) or paid class changes would be an improvement. Pricing is pretty unreasonable as well. $10 for one set of cosmetic armor? $50 for mini Mr. Sparkles. Yea, no thanks.

squee obsidian shards aren’t free.

True, but unless you just dinged 80 they’re not horribly expensive karma-wise. It’s probably harder finding a server to guest on that actually has Temple of Balthazar open.