Guild Wars 2

One thing I noticed was a lot of lore / emotional reasons for voting for either of the two candidates. While I love lore and the excitement behind it, I believe that players need to metagame more, and vote with their gold bank.
As follows is a quick breakdown of costs savings – build your play style considering it and determine for yourself which is worth more.

This is beaten down – everyone should know it by now – but I’ll be assigning discount values based on language included in their “promotions”.

For Evon – we will get a discount, not a “steep” discount”, on black lion keys. The previously used language for discount vs “steep” is 25% vs 50%. I’ll venture that Evon will give us up to 33% (its unique, and is a bone thrown to get us to buy gems with cash). Key price (purchased in packs of 5) will go down to 300 gems for 5.

For Kiel – we will get a discount, I’m thinking it might be 33% (since we already have a guild derived 15% WP discount). As a player who plays around 3 hours a day and does almost every world event, I spend around 45 silver a day on WPs. Per week I estimate that I spend around 3 gold when chasing world events. When I didn’t do world events, the WP cost per day was around 15 silver.

With the above information set – lets take a quick view on the cost savings of both candidates and come up with a gold representation based on different play styles.

Nicko – the efficient world boss master who also buys around 15 keys a month, will save 4 gold from Kiel, or 5 keys from Evon (about 15 gold savings).

Minh – the dungeon master (+50% WP costs) who doesn’t buy gems often (maybe buying 3 keys a month) but also does all the world events, will save 6 gold from Kiel, or 1 keys from Evon (about 3 gold savings).

Matt – the just have fun master of fun who does around ½ of the world bosses but doesn’t buy any keys, will save 2 gold from Kiel, but none form Evon.

Given the above people you can see that if you buy just 6 keys with gems or gold you will actually save more gold / gems than if you had an all world bosses play style. If you do every dungeon and do all world events I’d instead double the savings from Kiel instead but thereby you would need to buy around 12 keys before Evon will save you more money.

Disclaimer – any names and references relating to real life players and friends of Vox Shatterfall are not meant to be representative in any way shape or form.

This is kind of nonsence. You can’t bring up these wannabe-advices based on your speculations about upcoming discounts.

Typical player plays 3 hours a day and does all world bosses? Really? That’s not “typical” at all.

You mentioned end-game players that port all-over the place and/or buy a lot of gems. Who the hell does all world bosses every day? What if they are some players that don’t play “typical”, do dailies, dynamic events, play with alts and they are just enjoying the game? It’s not about how many keys per month you buy.

And if you plan on falling for Anets money making scheme vote for EVON!

Not… i’ll pass.

And yes, I am making a ton of assumptions.

I know alot of players who go for all world bosses – the daily chest ones at least.
But as you say this is not indicative of the “typical”.

I just want to spur people to analyze the possible benefits based on some speculations I have based on language ANET has used in the past.

Who people vote for I don’t care about.

Why people vote for who they vote for is what I care about.
What I hate more about elections are people who don’t know REALLY how each candidate can affect them.

If I avoided words like typical and generalized we would be in for a long day and analysis, in the end, I want people to disagree with me and analyze for themselves WHY vote for Kiel or Evon.

I’m sorry I made any recommendation – I’ll take that out soon.
For whakittens worth, do you have other monetary advice to add to the topic?

I’m voting for Evon. If you want to know why, here it is:

I don’t do Fractals, i haven’t played the first Guild Wars, i rarely use waypoints, i don’t buy keys (only when there’s a discount on them). I don’t care about in-game cash.

I will vote for Evon because Charr who leads the biggest trading company in Tyria and wants to get rich no matter what looks more interesting than leader of soldiers that will always fight for good and freedom – i’m actually getting bored with all of these games where you have to rescue your town/village/wife/potatoe. Seeing a “neutral” character who leads Lions Arch would be really cool.