Guild Wars 2

I know we are facing occasional gem store sales but should bag/inventory prices remain 400 gems? Some people who played the game early were able to take benefit of low gold to gem ratio and unlocked the bag slots at very low price. Character slot and bank slot prices should remain the same due to accountbound nature, but bag slot is unlocked per character and it has steep cost of 400 gems per slot.
I think reducing it to 200~250 gems per slot would make lives of people much easier, but that is just might though.

Any other items that you feel like need price decrease in gem stores? Feel free to share

The price for gem-store item will and should never be catered towards the gold to gem trade, and as such there is no real reason to lower the prices due to that.

400 gems were 5 bucks at the start o the game and 400 gems are 5 bucks now.

the whole point of gem store item is to make people spend real money on the cash shop.

If you spend real cash, you won’t be affected.

Obviously I understand why people complain. They dont’ want to spend real cash, but need to farm more gold to turn to cash. But think about Anet, they need to continue making money to pay salary and make investor happy.

TheFamster.7806:

Some people who played the game early were able to take benefit of low gold to gem ratio and unlocked the bag slots at very low price.

If you want ANet to offer a discount, I don’t think the “fairness” argument will convince them: the effort involved in increasing storage today is comparable to how it was when the game launched and over time.

Back at launch (and for some time later), it was a lot harder to obtain gold. T6 mats sold for vendor +1 (or less sometimes, since it was possible to price them below that). Dungeons didn’t give guaranteed rewards, there were no champ bags (heck, champs sometimes didn’t drop any loot at all), and so forth.

Besides, extra bag slots were a terrible deal for increasing inventory space, compared to other strategies; many people didn’t bother with them. Also, the price of the bags themselves haven’t gone up much: upgrading from 10-slot to 20-slot today costs just as much as it did then.

In fact, it might be easier now to earn enough to buy a new bag slot. It probably is harder this week (sudden spike in gold:gem ratio), but we’d have to do the math to see if it was last month.