Guild Wars 2

I have a firm belief that the “gambling” stuff, was not truely the Developers Idea.. Well not directly. I bet you that this came from up high, where only the money matters. The Investors and such. Developers really do have a love for the art.

But let me give you a lesson on how to speak to the money matters people. “Money Matter” people are innocent humans too and they just want to communicate with us, but their form of communication is Money. If you don’t like the way the conversation is going, then stop speaking.. Catch My Drift?

But how do you get them to understand you and what you really want? Start speaking in the avenues that you Like to be in. Buy only what you want to see more of.

If everyone right now, stopped buying keys, and started buying only direct purchase Items. then in a month from now when they see the data, they will understand you.

and I guarantee you will see more of it.

Cheers!

Remember when BLCs were worth like 3c on the trading post? Because everyone thought they were useless and didn’t want to buy or didn’t have keys to open them? And yet, even with that lack of demand for the item, ANet decides to introduce limited time items to them to explode demand.

So even if players demonstrated that they weren’t interested in these chests, ANet would find some way to make players interested rather than scrap the gamble.

You cannot give in on your values, simply don’t buy anything thats a gamble, and instead buy something that is direct purchase.

@OP
There will always be people who gamble and I have no problem allowing them their fun/vice. I have played games where that is big business, but those returns usually net the gamblers more than they pay, not less. Which is why they do it. Usually the items are 100% tradable. Currently too many items from the chests are account bound.

Also,most of those games don’t have the good reputation Anet has. This is why there is a problem. The money people Nexon look at their crappy game and say this works and don’t see how it could affect the reputation and mechanics of GW2.