[Suggestion] Turn in items for gems.
BLTC have always been Whitman Samplers. You can’t return just the chocolates you don’t like for cash.
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BLTC have always been Whitman Samplers. You can’t return just the chocolates you don’t like for cash.
Exactly my point. Now, go back and re-read my suggestion and return with an actual response that can be discussed further, or please refrain from de-railing my topic.
No, you want gems for the items from BLTC you don’t want so the analogy “cash for the chocolates you don’t like from a sampler” holds. Doesn’t matter if you were going to use the cash to buy chocolates you like or not.
Just imagine key farmers turning “time playing” into gems. After all 20-30 minutes for a key Versus 125 gems or 16+ gold (11g in bulk) of gold to get that many gems.
In your case you listed about 4335 gems worth of stuff you want to get rid of. That’s also about 400g if you exchanged that number of gems for gold. Again point to key farmers farming for tickets and shards. Even if only half of the “junk” that you get from BLTC have a gem value, even 25 gems per chest would be 2+g when sold for gold.
Now if you had suggested another panel at the gem shop where you could “trade” X of something you don’t want for Y of something you do, and lose any “change” from the exchange, yeah, I can see that as an option. Exchange 25 of your Trading Post Expresses for a infinite gather tool or 20 for an armor skin. This is to eliminate conversion to gold as a possibility.
Of course every trade means that you would never need to buy gems with cash for those items, not that you ever would, but the notion that it could mean a player wouldn’t have to would negatively affects ANet’s income. Which is why we won’t ever see that. Even if they only give you 10% of the gem value of those items.
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I think a system like the Boost Enchantment Powder being used for extra items like what you describe here would be a better approach than a direct gem refund.
What I would like to see, though, is a gem store purchase refund system where if I spend gems on something and I’m dissatisfied with it, I can return it for a refund of gems from within the Black Lion screen. Like in the “recent purchases” tab, just throw in a refund option. It doesn’t have to apply to everything, but it should be there. (imo)
Basically. If I spent gems to get it and it turned out to be trashy, I should be able to get my gems back and return it. But if I didn’t ever spend gems to acquire the items I don’t like in the first place, I shouldn’t be able to convert them directly into gems. But it would be nice to convert them into something I’d actually use, which is why I say the Booster Powder approach would be a better approach.
This sort of defeats the intended point of the gem store, which in many ways has strayed away from that to begin with, but that’s another argument. The gem store is supposed to be a way from arena net to pickup revenue rather than charging a monthly fee, yeah they’re a business, they want money. The other note is it’s NOT supposed to be pay to win in any aspects other than convenience… though a lot of the newer items seem to stretch convenience. The last thing it is, is a way for people to generate a profit, it’s designed to be a gold sink as well as income for the company. This is why the tax rate on gems is so harsh, flipping them is very difficult.