In my opinion this whole update feels more like A-nets feeble attempt to nerf the game to boost sales of gems, not to balance the game. I have 1 possible solution, Put the game back the way it was before 9/9/2014, change the currency exchange to go only 1 way and that’s gems to gold and not gold to gems. That way if there’s something a player wants from the gem store they have to buy it with real money, A-net gets the money there after and we get the game we want and paid for, problem solved. (Or at least I feel the problem would be solved.) Now before I start seeing all the haters saying that that wouldn’t be fair, that you should be able to buy gems with in game gold, I say no, you shouldn’t. A-net has been very kind to us all for not charging monthly to play the game, I think it’s only far to have to pay real money for something, and what better then the gem store. At least if you don’t have the money, you don’t have to buy anything. Not so if you have to pay to play the game.
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