Guild Wars 2

a simple survey.

do you want account bound queens gauntlet tickets?

yes, i want.

Yes. Or rather, I want them gone. They’re insipid and requires you to grind obscure events if you run out of them.

they were account bound to begin with.

why change them to soul bound?

you could create how much new characters as you want and send the 5 tokens to your main charakter. the people who abused it get like 100-1000 tokens and didnt have to give it back

Oh good grief. Can’t they make ones from the mail soulbound and ones from in game play account bound.

Why people do it? Why arena.net cares about it? They are so rare, right?

Yes, I would like them to be account bound. IMO the mistake was making each character get 5 tickets. While it was welcome, the obvious result was that people were just going to create and delete characters ad infinatum to build up a huge stockpile of them.

showtime.9175:

you could create how much new characters as you want and send the 5 tokens to your main charakter. the people who abused it get like 100-1000 tokens and didnt have to give it back

Uhhh this is an exploit- temp 24 hour ban should be enforced!

Yes, I’m not sure why these need to be soulbound. Kind of annoying if you ask me.

From what I’ve seen in most games, extremely challenging content that is fun usually lets the player jump back in seconds after they lose. Tickets prevent that. Definitely not a good idea to even have them in the first place.

I have to check a guide before i fight, otherwise i might die and waste time trying to get more tickets.

Yeah, its nice that each character has some free ones- but those should be SOULBOUND obviously. I’ve grinded all day and have alot on my pve character and now for arena gauntlet thingy want to use my pvp toons profession but the stupid tickets aren’t tradeable. I understand about stopping the exploiters… but you should come out with a more thought through approach in the next patch. This quick fix- is annoying a lot of peeps who aren’t exploiting.

Simplest solution to me seems like they should have just not required tickets to go into the arena. It’s supposed to fun and challenging, why bother adding a grind to it that makes people do DEs that they potentially don’t want to do repeatedly?

I have to say, I don’t understand the purpose of these tickets at all. They take up space. I guess they’re supposed to be a money sink, but most of the people who are going to use 100 tickets will probably get them from drops, likely by farming the crown pavilion. Why is it that you need an ITEM to participate in half of the event? Isn’t the point of having an event to encourage everyone to play the new content? Why make them go through a pointless extra step in order to participate? The voting tokens made sense. These do not.

That said, making them soulbound is inane. I use my main character for most of the new content (and will use him in the gauntlet when I eventually get to it) and I use my secondary character to do most of my dailies since I’m trying to level her. Now she’s going to end up with a bunch of useless items that I have to trash because she’s too squishy for me to bother taking her into that kind of event. If these silly tokens have to exist, at least make them make some sort of sense.

AlietteFaye.7316:

why bother adding a grind to it that makes people do DEs that they potentially don’t want to do repeatedly?

Cause Anet loves grinds and time gated content.

Gene Archer.8560:

AlietteFaye.7316:

why bother adding a grind to it that makes people do DEs that they potentially don’t want to do repeatedly?

Cause Anet loves grinds and time gated content.

But that makes zero sense with their business model. The only way that would make sense is if they sold keys to the gated content so that you can bypass the time limitations on the Gem Store. But they don’t.

If duping the tickets with new characters is a problem, just put a minimum level on the mail that gives free tickets. It’s not like any character under 30 or whatever is going to stand a chance in there.

Edit: Changing wording so that the overzealous censor doesn’t reduce my post to nonsensical gibberish.

What’s the reason behind having the tickets at all? Really like the gauntlet, but it’s the opposite of rewarding because I lose so much gold buying tickets.