Guild Wars 2

The purpose of this thread is to discuss the actual merit of reduced waypoint costs during a 4 week period and how that may affect your wallet and time when playing in game.

Until further notice the actual amount discounted on WP travel is purely speculative.

The two arguments I see for two types of people:

1) I currently WP as little as possible because of costs. Having a reduction will allow me to save time during these 4 weeks.
2) I currently WP anyways, so it would be nice to save some money for a 4 week period.

The problems:
1) The consumer generally looks at discounts and blankets the general savings over their previous ability to say ‘No.’
In the end the consumer will use the commodity more often than is even necessary just because they can within the duration of the savings. Time management will end up becoming a secondary reason when jumping from within zones themself just to save 20 seconds.

2) As with above, a consumer will end up justifying the over-use of using reduced costs that they regularly do anyways. Instead of heading to The Mists to get to LA, for instance, one will WP directly to the Bank WP. In the end, because of reduced costs, more money will have left your wallet than if the reduction was never there because of justified over use.

Kiel is promising something politians do every election. Something you think you need, have little use for currently because you’ve lived without it, but will actually become a larger money sink during it’s implementation and when it is once again removed from the economy.

Thoughts?

I use the waypoints to teleport back to Lion’s Arch anyway. Heck, I use waypoints to teleport just 10 feet at times. A reduction in cost means a lot to me since I already use waypoints pretty extensively.

Evon is offering cheaper keys, which is something that I absolutely have no interest in. Now that’s something I have little use for that I have lived without.

I don’t even bother looking at WP costs since they are trivial to begin with and I have a lot of gold. Heck, I don’t bother porting into HOTM to get free trips to LA anymore.