Guild Wars 2

A simple idea. Add GW2 codes as purchasable items in the gem store (full price, of course). Using Gold -> Gems, this would allow players to get their friends into the game without them paying personally (though, of course, the gems have already been bought, and thus the game paid for). This would increase the spread of GW2, and it would thus increase the number of people playing which means more people buying gems.

Agreed, eve and tera have made something like this (If I’m not wrong). Not to buy THE account, but to buy month subscription in game.
If it work? Well I can not see the bad side of it.

Oh my god! Why?

Seriously this post got me so angry, I can’t even write a decent response…

zogrim.6925:

Oh my god! Why?

Seriously this post got me so angry, I can’t even write a decent response…

Whats the problem for me to pay a high amount of in game gold to get a serial key and give for example, as a birthday gift for a friend?
We get gems with gold because someone got gems with MONEY so the game is payed, and IF that someone is selling its because he want in game gold. Why? I dont care at all, everyone have their reasons.

Wraith.4103:

zogrim.6925:

Oh my god! Why?

Seriously this post got me so angry, I can’t even write a decent response…

Whats the problem for me to pay a high amount of in game gold to get a serial key and give for example, as a birthday gift for a friend?
We get gems with gold because someone got gems with MONEY so the game is payed, and IF that someone is selling its because he want in game gold. Why? I dont care at all, everyone have their reasons.

Well, ANet will not earn anything from gold to gem conversion. So posting codes to be buyable as gems is not an option… unless they create a new type of gem, say a red gem, which is only acquirable by converting real-world money to red gems.

I mean, people will eventually get 100gold and who knows how richer more. Convert those to gems, buy an account, and then how can ANet convert that to real-world money?

That’s probably the reason why the Gold to Gem conversion isn’t tied-in to Gem to Gold conversion just like how it is in the real-world setting where one currency to another currency conversion rate is two-way the same.

I don’t think you quite get how the gem store works, Shael. All those gems you’re buying with gold? Somebody else bought those with real money, then turned around and sold them for gold. There are no gems without ANet getting payed.

Shael.4703:

Well, ANet will not earn anything from gold to gem conversion. So posting codes to be buyable as gems is not an option… unless they create a new type of gem, say a red gem, which is only acquirable by converting real-world money to red gems.

I mean, people will eventually get 100gold and who knows how richer more. Convert those to gems, buy an account, and then how can ANet convert that to real-world money?

That’s probably the reason why the Gold to Gem conversion isn’t tied-in to Gem to Gold conversion just like how it is in the real-world setting where one currency to another currency conversion rate is two-way the same.

Are you serious?
How can someone get gems so?
I can be here making a mistake but from what I know:
You can buy GEMS with IN GAME GOLD IF someone got GEMS with REAL MONEY and is selling it for IN GAME GOLD.
Gems dont create itself nor are drops, nor can be get playing the game, so someone used real money to get the gem.
If the “serial code” worth like 50.000 gems for example, someone got that 50.000 gems with REAL MONEY and then he’s putting theses gems for sale to get in game gold, then you buy it with your in game gold. What Arena get from that? the price of the 5000 gems someone payed.
It didnt came from nowhere.

I must admit it have been ArenaNet mistake to not explain really well, and even maybe a excuse to put some itens in the gem store (aka black lion trading post). They have talked like it was a revolution “You can get gems with in game gold! So you will not need to spend real money”……… Duh, come on, lot of games have made that and this never meant a balanced economy nor a “non pay for advantage”.
I’m not saying its bad, in fact its great and really better then GW was, im just saying they need to explain better that someone is actually paying for the gems, there’s no pool of infinity gem where people get with in game gold. That’s what I know from what I read, but maybe I’m wrong and you’re right.

EDIT: From what I have read too, the Gems economy are not driven exactly by the players. It looks like they use a automatic system wich is kinda bad and people who use real money and trade gems for gold get a lower amount of gold lol
So I’m not sure if it would affect physical sales and digital sales, but well if they sell “deluxe upgrade” this way… Who knows.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Gem-Market-Manipulations

I think this is a good idea. They can overprice it a bit like they did with Digital Deluxe and make more money.

On the topic of gem market, when you sell gems for gold or gold for gems there’s a 15% transaction fee. The only manipulation of the exchange rate was the initial price setting at head-start. Research online how currency exchange works in the real world and you learn how it works in GW2. Unless, something shady goes on behind the scenes we don’t know.

It’s actually not a bad idea, and I’m unclear why they don’t already sell the game that way. It would be 4800 gems ($60).

Unfortunately, this thread will be locked shortly, as they are locking any and all “suggestions”. The theory I guess is that the suggestion forum is still not open for a reason, and any threads that try to bypass that are automatically locked.