Guild Wars 2

When i started this game, i got for 10 Silver 38 Gems,

now i will get for 10 Silver only 9 Gems or even less,

how far will it go? Will the prize for a Gem rock up the sky endlessly? Can we be sure it will ever stop somewhere?

I can tell you, this is some kind of perfid plan on making money by gambling for developers BUT it wont work out in long terms, it will ruin the game for sure!

Really i just want to warn you, i dont want to make any offensive post, just please consider that what i will tell right now seriously:

I played another game before (pwi) which was ruined in a really bad manner
just becouse they put Gambling inside it
the chance of getting rare mounts, skins or some kind of flashy stuff allways deliver a lot of people to grind for ingame money, the people will find ways to get unfair advantage to get ingame money before the regular honest players! You wont be able to shut them all off.
Yes you will get more money in a short time of period,
couse the rich ones will purchase gems and sell them for ingame coins to get some kind of armor … but: 1. there is not much to buy ingame with coins you really need, more people will just want the Black Lion Stuff
2. most of the people will use the free way to get they hands on gems
What happens is this:
- The Gem-Ingame Coin Rate will be redicioulus high, it discourages new players from playing the game properly they will only try to find ways to make ingame coin or just quit at the start
- Sooner or later not only Gems will become impossible to buy, even regular armor will get ridiciously costly

At the end more and more players will leave:
the 1. kind of players who hate grinding
the 2. kind of YOUR best customers who will think that the gem prizes are not worth the money couse they are badly high
(just the example of 125 gems for a single key, wtf?)
the 3. kint of players who dont like empty mmos couse everyone leaves

i saw it happen!

Gambling ruins economy!

If you put up Gambling only on holidays, .. people are not stupid the economy wont get better couse everyone expect them to come back, the only way to fix this is an offical statement for a permanent termination.

Please god in heaven i hope you will consider this

Gem prices are still extremely low now. Still not worth it to buy gems and convert them to gold. Also there is hardly anything in the shop that is worth buying atm, so expect the price to rise, especially when new items get added.

But RNG/gambling is a bad thing and has to go, I agree.

Gem prices are almost definitely going to keep on rising as more gold enters the economy. With the amount of farming going on there is no real cap on how much gold can be produced, while Gems have a fixed real world value.

If you think about it, it isn’t in the interests of AN for Gems to be EASIER to buy for gold. They want to sell Gems for real world money. It becomes more attractive to buy Gems for real money when those Gems can be converted to more gold. Gold-farmers actually play an important part in the economy and will eventually make themselves obsolete when buying gold off AN, via Gems, becomes more cost-effective than farming.

It’s all quite fascinating.

They relaxed the anti-farm code dramatically a week or two ago. As a result about double the amount of gold is coming into the system as before. This will naturally lead to gems appreciating relative to gold.

What’s funny is that I just got done reading a thread in the general game discussion subforum where a bunch of people were complaining about how terrible it was that $1 worth of gold through ANet (via gems) is still such a measly quantity. The thing that makes it funny is how confident people in both threads are that their own complaints about the exchange rate are absolutely legitimate, despite the fact that their complaints directly contradict each other.

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What’s funny is that I just got done reading a thread in the general game discussion subforum where a bunch of people were complaining about how terrible it was that $1 worth of gold through ANet (via gems) is still such a measly quantity. The thing that makes it funny is how confident people in both threads are that their own complaints about the exchange rate are absolutely legitimate, despite the fact that their complaints directly contradict each other.

Very few people are capable of dispassionately assessing the whole system, preferring to focus on their own immediate problem.

On a related note;
I’m pretty sure it’s a fact that gem prices rised due to Halloween. When that event is over, do you think gemprices will lower again or will they stay the same / just keep on rising?
Atm I’m thinking there’s just no reason why gemprices would lower (bad conversion rate, more gold in the game), and that they’ll just rise forever (Faster during special events). I’m thinking that kind of inflation could be pretty detrimental to the community, because it nullifies the entire “Don’t wanna spend $$? You can use ingame gold!” idea for any player that doesn’t farm hard (which I’d guess is at least 75% of the community).
Thoughts?