Guild Wars 2

Hello Folks,

Today I would like to talk to you about what I believe to be a very important issue concerning the future of GW2.

In my opinion, the up and coming vote is much more serious than just another fun Living Story chapter. Your vote, may have real world consequences.

Here is a quote from Gnashblade (posted on the website).

I’ll slash prices on Black Lion Keys for four whole weeks

At first, this sounds like a good thing. Why wouldn’t we want the keys to be cheaper?

The problem is, by voting for Gnashblade you are sending a clear message to ANet, RNG is good!

For those of you out there who may be new to the game, or simply haven’t spent that much time debating the issues with RNG, the idea is basically that ANet has decided to use a form of gambling to make money in the game.

For example:

ANet releases a rare weapon skin. In order to get that weapon skin, you are required to purchase chests. These chests, which can and are often purchased with real world money, offer you a chance to get a weapon, a weapon ticket, or a scrap of ticket which can be saved up.

The problem is of course that this form of gambling means that some players whom either have large amounts of disposable income, or those who have gambling tendencies will purchase large amounts of these chests.

The causal gamer, or those without the means to spend $20+ per weapon, are often left with no options.

In the past, ANet has tried various approaches to this. For example, during the Dragon Bash event, Dragon Coffers were sold in the Gem Store, which gave players a slightly better chance of gaining a weapon ticket, or you could grind in the open world and gain coffers by killing mobs and holograms. Where as during the current event (Cutthroat) weapon tickets are contained within the Black Lion Chests, which can only be opened using keys purchased in the Gem Store (with very, very rare drop rates outside of that).

This means that over the last year or so, players have found themselves a slave to ANets experiments on RNG.

Despite the large amount of backlash over the RNG model, ANet continues to ignore suggestions that would make it a fair system for all. They have constantly found ways to punish casuals, reward those with deep pockets, and feed gambling addictions.

It is my opinion that the community needs to take a stand against ANet and let them know that there is a fair way to make money. We need to let them know that we are more than willing to support the game, if they treat us with respect.

If you vote for Gnashblade, you are sending a clear message to ANet that the community supports RNG. This will mean that in the future, your only chance to obtain rare weapons is to spend real money, and hope for the best.

Please, consider not voting for Gnashblade.

Gamble chests FTL. If I wanted to Casino I’d go to one. If I want to get robbed I’d go to Ft Lauderdale.

Also OP it’s not an anet slave experiment though. It’s Asia’s only contribution to the MMO genre, they invented this tactic as f2p is a lot more popular there.

I’m gonna kill the mood a bit here, but what does RNG stands for? I hear it a lot lately, but i haven’t gotten a clue what does it actually mean.

random numbers game = RNG. The OP didn’t use it right exactly although it works kind of. It’s used for people to complain on forums if they lose based on luck. 90% of the time people miss use RNG however as an excuse for being bad.

To the poster below they have had the odds at 1/200 it’s in the 300$+ run to obtain a weapon skin on average which every rational person would agree is very unhealthy to encourage people to spend.

Stego.3148:

random numbers game = RNG. The OP didn’t use it right exactly although it works kind of. It’s used for people to complain on forums if they lose based on luck.

*Random Number Generator

Thank you for responding.

I don’t really know what the big deal really is then – after all we can get the keys for gold, and that gives everyone a chance to get those things. Of course, people with more funds will be able to get more chances, but it’s still, as mentioned earlier, random, ergo: more buying ? more winning. This whole situation is being unnecesarily blown out of proportion.

Even if you vote against him its not like RNG is going anywhere, it’ll just be more expensive than voting for him.

Boobr.1678:

Thank you for responding.

I don’t really know what the big deal really is then – after all we can get the keys for gold, and that gives everyone a chance to get those things. Of course, people with more funds will be able to get more chances, but it’s still, as mentioned earlier, random, ergo: more buying ? more winning. This whole situation is being unnecesarily blown out of proportion.

Have you seen gem prices now compared to halloween. This is Not a free market. Anet is making players grind hard to get things for free in the gem store.

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

The problem is, by voting for Gnashblade you are sending a clear message to ANet, RNG is good!

Nah, this has zero influence on how A-Net implements RNG. If Kiel had a connection to less RNG then you might have an argument, but she has no ties to RNG issues at all.

This vote has very little impact long-term besides the fractal choice and a small variation on how characters are used in the Living Story.

Trying to connect the vote to RNG is nothing but a lame attempt by Kiel supporters to swing more votes her way.

GoddessHrist.8472:

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

The problem is, by voting for Gnashblade you are sending a clear message to ANet, RNG is good!

Nah, this has zero influence on how A-Net implements RNG. If Kiel had a connection to less RNG then you might have an argument, but she has no ties to RNG issues at all.

Your statement contradicts itself.

It’s because Kiel is not NPG connected to RNG, I vote for her.

Evon is Anets RNG maskat!