Guild Wars 2

Seriously, why is it you can’t buy gems by the number you want? Say, if you want to buy 400 gems, you can’t just type in the number you want, you have to muck about with the amount you want to spend to get close to the number of gems… and the kitten market moves so you’ll think you’re about right and it’ll suddenly be different.

An option to BUY gems in the same way you sell them would be great.

:edit: That’s buying with Gold, rather than real money… I should’ve made that clear

this is in every real-money to in-game currency exchange. They force you to buy a certain number of gems, usually more than you need. That way they make more money

Well even though you can’t physically punch in I want X amount of gems you can still do that so Quick Mouse.7635 statement doesn’t hold true for Arena Net.

If I want 85 gems I simply put in a base number of gold say,
2 gold = 100 gems
so then I put in
1 gold 72 silver = 75 gems
I just keep changing the number till I get the number I want. ( that example is not 100% correct in math just an example )

Now as far as buying gems with real world money there is set amounts, this isn’t to get more money from the players ( at least in my opinion ) it is to simplify things. There is a lot less encoding involved when you you say you can buy

100 gems
400 gems
500 gems
1000 gems
1500 gems
2000 gems

than saying
well for 1 gem it is X amount and then getting your system to tally up the price.

ah yes, for gold→gems it would be nice if you could punch in the exact amount of gems you want. For the real money conversion, this will never change

why do you spend real money for pixel money is my question. you can trade pixel money for gems for a reason…..