Guild Wars 2

arena net needs to lower gold to gems exchange rate in guild wars 2

The exchange rate is player driven. It is based on the number of gems bought with real cash that are sold by players for gold. It is not “controlled” by A-net, and while it has gone up in price from when I started, it is honestly, fine as is.

If I were a gem seller..

Why would I sell my gems to someone who is offering fewer gold?

Vol.5241:

If I were a gem seller..

Why would I sell my gems to someone who is offering fewer gold?

This
I can make gold nearly as fast in-game and I’m not even a Flipper. Min wage accross the country here is generally 7.50….6.60 ~actual-takehome. That gets you how many Gems?… Just over 500? …that’s about 10g.

If you want a REAL culprit here, look no further than the overpriced Services that Nexon (not ANET) predicted people would scrounge the most Gold-to-Gems towards… Server transfers, Storage upgrades, Trans CRYSTALS that we can’t get any other way b/c their droprate from LionChests is LAUGHABLE and there’s no Forge recipe to create them like there should etc… Stuff that should have been a LOT cheaper considering how fast the populations dropped off in this game (thus less hardware stress & storage overall).

My stupid Electric company is the same exact way, they charge us darn near 20 bucks to “read the meter” every month. Bull..shhh..logny. There’s no way it costs them that much for someone who only needs EYEBALLS and a PENCIL to record that info. The Federal government should really start regulating these exorbitant “Services” that are way too common these days by just getting some real Transparency on them. There’s no way a server Transfers should ever cost $20 USD. It doesn’t even require EYEBALLS and a PENCIL.

Oh geez, not this again. This is getting so old.

Anet to stick that GEMS ARE PLAYER DRIVEN!!!! <——-just like that, complete with bold and underlined, and large font’ed.

Davidm.2419:

arena net needs to lower gold to gems exchange rate in guild wars 2

Why?

ilr.9675:

If you want a REAL culprit here, look no further than the overpriced Services that Nexon (not ANET) predicted people would scournge the most Gold-to-Gems towards… Server transfers, Storage upgrades, etc… Stuff that should have been a LOT cheaper considering how fast the populations dropped off in this game (thus less hardware stress & storage overall).

I have to admit, I really balked against having to spend money for additional character slots and bank space, especially considering the last two MMOs I played that went F2P offer you both at full capacity just for buying the box which was the same if not less than GW2.

I do find the gem exchange ridiculous though. I’ve been purposely using level 78-79 armor just so I don’t have to pay the exorbitant costs of transmutation crystals.

Lane.3410:

I do find the gem exchange ridiculous though. I’ve been purposely using level 78-79 armor just so I don’t have to pay the exorbitant costs of transmutation crystals.

Yeah, I edited my post to explicitly include that example, thanks!

Lane.3410:

I do find the gem exchange ridiculous though. I’ve been purposely using level 78-79 armor just so I don’t have to pay the exorbitant costs of transmutation crystals.

That’s actually a really good idea for alts, thanks haha

Davidm.2419:

arena net needs to lower gold to gems exchange rate in guild wars 2

I’d like to offer my compelling, rational, eloquent and well-sourced counter-argument. AHEM!

Arena Net needs to raise gold to gems exchange rate in guild wars 2.

if Anet manual decrease the gold -> gem price, this attachment is what the graph of that day’s gem price would look like.
How good is your internet connection?

lol..OP why would ANET would want to do that ? high exchange rate would encourage player to buy gems and convert to gold, and ANET would love it if it goes very high because they know it would make it more attractive for players to buy gems to convert to gold….