Hi, I just wanted to post a simple idea for feedback, this is more aimed at players that love collecting content. I don’t know about all of you but when I played other subscription games I paid $5-$15 a month and I was able to earn everything in-game and collect everything. Guild Wars 2 is full of discontinued items and “limited time” items which is to try to persuade you to buy it now than later. This in a sense is disrespectful to a lot of players that realize how this works and it feels like the care more about my wallet than making the game enjoyable for players.
I’m a collector, it’s just my in-game hobby and it’s something I’ve done on every MMO I’ve played. Now gw1 was far superior than gw2 due to the sheer amount of money needed to buy all the content.
First week of December you need 2000 gems to buy all mini’s + helms and I’m sure we’ll see a lot more items on the 10th, like the x-mas finishers.
I’m all for supporting Guild Wars, even if most of the money from the gem shop is shamelessly going to other games but as a collector I don’t think it’s fair that we have to pay like $1,000 a year to get all content that most MMO’s give you for your $180 in subscription fees per year. Most people who don’t support the game or people who are oblivious to collecting generally say “you don’t have to collect” or “you can buy the items with gold” yet not everyone has the time to play 80 hours a week to earn the gold the legit way to buy all the gem shop content each month, or should they be told they “don’t have too” collect the content when they should be able to in a reasonable manner like most MMOs, especially if they are supporting the game and are the type of people you want playing the game to keep it growing and players around.
My overall view is Guild Wars 2 is ripping their collector players hard just to pay for those who play the game for free and this is unfair and disrespectful.
My idea was to allow us to pay a “large” one time fee to get one of every gem store item for a full year. Where the typical subscription fee may be $15 a month but I realize you need to make more money per player to pay for those who play for free, why not sell us a gem store annual thing for say $400 a year or 32,000 gems (which you can trade in-game gold for)?
This would show your loyal collectors and players you are not trying to empty their wallets and respect us that actually buy into your game rather than overwhelming us with expensive content… while you may lose some annual money on big collectors, at least you’ll be being fair to us AND show us some respect. I’m sure you lose a lot of collectors over the overwhelming costs both RL or in-game to keep up with this games re-skins etc…
Overall as a collectors perspective, this game system layout is shameful especially compared to guild wars 1.
Any thoughts from others? Would love feedback, suggestions etc.
(edited by Osi.3504)