Guild Wars 2

I have bought gems once and I wonder why you have different stack sizes of gems, when you offer no incentive to buy the bigger stacks.

I’m unfortunate to have to pay in euros, and 800 gems cost 10 euros, 8000 gems cost 100 euros – meaning the first and the last gem cost exactly the same.

It is quite normal both in the virtual and certainly in the real world that you get a discount on a purchase when you buy in bulk, and considering that you buy 10 times as many gems if you buy the big pack compared to the smallest one I think it would be fair that you either got extra gems or a discount.

In its current form I have no incentive what so ever to chose the bigger pack over the smaller except for the convenience.

If I need lets say 800 gems to buy one of your offers there are no reason for me to be tempted and buy 1600 instead, since the price per gem is exactly the same.

If the price for 1600 gems was 18 euros instead of 20, then that would be 10% discount and I would consider it – if the discount continued to increase as you bought more and more gems, I think more people would consider buying more than they planned for.

It would be great if you considered it – I think you would experience an increase in gem sales.

Thanks

I’ve thought of this before too.

The only reason I can think that they don’t do this is because it would mess up the gold → gem & gem → gold market prices. It would probably skew the value of gems.

How about you take notice to the fact, that they do not give a bonus amount when you buy gems themselves, cause they want the single items purchased to be of the same value.
At the same time notice that items on the gems store that you can buy in bulk quantities, do in fact have a discount for purchasing the bulk item. This is why they will not give you a bonus just for the purchase of gems.