Guild Wars 2

First off, I would like to thank you for the events you guys are hosting, I have been enjoying every one of them.

Second, thanks for sending me the free mini-pets since I contributed to the Gem Store.

Now for the actual reason for this topic.
You guys are capable of putting out great new content, but the way you handle us with new skins is just extremely disappointing.
I want to play the game to earn my rewards and not be forced to gamble to earn my rewards.
The Super Adventure Box is a great example of how you should treat us, you added it great surprise and I have been enjoying every second of it.
I have been playing it many times with friends and you rewarded us with fantastic skins.
But lately I have been noticed that a lot of skins are available by rare drops which then have a very rare chance of getting a ticket.
Your second option could be by purchasing it through the Gem Store which still does not guarantee you with such a reward.
Especially when it involves real money, I don’t want to spend real money to gamble for a reward.
I want to play the game, I want to play with friends, handle a challenge, I want to feel satisfied and most importantly, have fun!
Currently there is just a lot that leads to gambling for rewards (and I don’t mean Moa Racing, that’s a fun and not expensive mini-game to play for a reward, unless you are really unlucky!)

Guild Wars 2 is not about having the best gear, it’s about you and your character.
Guild Wars 2 is an amazing game and I want to play it, I want to show what I can do, I want to see what others can do and gambling does not help a game like Guild Wars 2.

Let us play the game.

Technically you can just play the game and get all the rewards (except the 3 minis which are sold directly with no gambling, and the one made from them).

You’ve just got less of a chance of getting the weapon skins than people who buy the RNG boxes.

But I’d try farming the free boxes if I was you. Quite a few people are saying they’ve gotten tickets from boxes they got in-game, and I know a lot of boxes are dropping.

There is no challenge in that, I am not helping anyone with that. That’s just killing random enemies and hope you are lucky.

DonRobeez.3560:

There is no challenge in that, I am not helping anyone with that. That’s just killing random enemies and hope you are lucky.

It’s also just playing the game and getting rewarded for doing so.

Esplen.3940:

It’s also just playing the game and getting rewarded for doing so.

Then where are my rewards?

GW1’s Black Moa scavenger hunt took time, but there’s very few players who didn’t like it. I did it about 10-11 times myself.

And it was just about going to places and getting stuff. The really interesting part was going into Sorrow’s Furnace.

Imagine if they did that GW2 style.
Yeah, it’ll take way more time and resources to do that some random box that you grind waiting in front of a spot because if you walk the enemies will get killed in a blink.
But it’ll also be way more fun. The kind of fun that you’d rather have every 2 months instead not-fun RNG boxes every two weeks.

Agree with OP. We play the game regularly when there isn’t a special event going on. But when there is, we’d really like to be able to do what it takes, earn in other words, a reward. There’s no earning with RNG – not if it takes exactly one very lucky kill to get a rare chest and then a rare ticket. OP got it right – there IS fun in working towards a goal that IS reachable. Not just statistically possible.

MithranArkanere.8957:

GW1’s Black Moa scavenger hunt took time, but there’s very few players who didn’t like it. I did it about 10-11 times myself.

And it was just about going to places and getting stuff. The really interesting part was going into Sorrow’s Furnace.

Imagine if they did that GW2 style.

Isn’t that exactly what they did for the Halloween back item? (though it was on a smaller scale, I haven’t done the black moa scavenger hunt in years so I don’t remember it exactly). the main things that they’ve done for the events is reskin the towns, make various new pvp games and occasionally throw in a jp.

don’t get me wrong i’d love to have some nice quest chains. but remember gw1 was around for many years, all of those things were there during the first year. I hope that in the following years these events are going to keep growing, especially since they got all of the gussying up of the towns done.

The two Southsun backpieces (tentacle and flower) are also obtained through quasi-scavenger hunts, just like the Moa chick in GW1. The F&F fused gauntlets were obtained through playing the game. The shattered holo wings for Dragon Bash is obtained through playing the game.

Rewards for playing the game do exist.