Guild Wars 2

I thought, I don’t read correctly today, as I saw in the news blogpost that anet is planning to remove soon in the future the Minipet Set 1 from the Ingame Shop permanently and thus wants to force us to get the 55 Minipets for the Achievement from that silly point on then only either via:

• Tradepost buying them off from other players (which isn’t cheap, when you think on all of the rare and exotic minipets, whose prices will skyrocket immeditely if ANet removes the Minipet Set 1 permanently from the Shop !!)

• Crafting through the stupid RNG mystic toilet cough, that lets us permanently waste countless of minipets to get something out of random that we don’t want/need in the end >.<, what results then in the end in tons of wasted and lost minipets for every/everyone that will end up only in massively increasing the prices for all of the other minipets in the TP

Due to the point that there is no way to craft blue minipets, removing Minipets from the Shop will result by this then only, that all Minipets from Set 1 will slowly DIE OUT basically as there will be someday no mini be left over from them oin the TP and the option of re-crafting them will end too, if there is no way of crafting blue minis.
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I’m totally aggainst this change and anyone with half a brain I suggest here too, to be on my side and protest against this change. This change is a dumb decision that would totally destroy the minipet market and the possibility to get the minipet achievement in a normal humanous way (and time span), because everything else would be pure chicanery of Anet to force us to waste tons of minipets in a craftign progress to maybe have the luck to get what we need or having to buy them from an die out amount of minipets from the TP, whose prices will quickly storm into atmosspheres of absolute unreachability for the “normal player”…

I suggest you here that if you really want to remove the minipets set 1 from the Shop, then please change at least the way of how we can craft minipets. !!
Away from this RNG bullcrap to a system, that lets us clearly craft exactly what we want through pregiven RECIPES.

Example:

I want to craft now a Miniature Oakheart…

Then the Crafting Recipe would be like this:

50 Globs of Ectoplams
50 Mystic Coins
250 Philosopher’s Stones
250 Heir Loom Seed Pouchs (can drop from Champion Rotten Ancient Oakhearts for example)

That way people would have a way to craft these minipets on a normal way through EFFORT and not through stupid luck.

Yes, Anet has also written, that they will make “Special Offers”, but why remove the minipets from the Shop, when you plan to make “Special Offers” for short periods of time (on that we have to wait then again .. = chicanery), when you know as good as us, that you take yourself away by the removal of the minipet set permanently only something from your shop, that earns you money!!

bump it up

1. Remove minipets from gemstore
2. Demand for said minipets skyrockets
3. Re-add minipets to gemstore
4. ???
5. Profit

Don’t worry, Anet loves money too much for them not to re-add them at some point.

1: The permanent removal of a set of miniatures will not mean they will be gone. They will become a lot rarer. There are still reports that even ultra rare miniatures in gw1 still exist. Some of these didn’t have more then 28 of them ever given out.
2: Yes the price will rise, but that is not reason to say no to such thing.
3: Miniatures and miniatures collectors are an important source of income now for Anet. If you don’t want to be that way, please don’t collect miniatures.

Its already now hard to collect the rarest t1 pets.. pout them all together and you’ve to spend half a fortune to get just the achievement maxed

Anet doesn’t need such stupid methods like this.. they are always on the eternal lever of profit making by having the option to put whenever needed new content into the shop via a multitude of different things, that don’t have to be only minipets.

As it looks they are also returnign to their old gw1 concept about releasing like every year a new badge of minipets as a new tier that will be put into the shop.

Everyone should have the same fair chance to work on the minipet achievemtns, not only the ultra rich players and those, that constantly put real money into the game…

So personally I find a statement like this

If you don’t want to be that way, please don’t collect miniatures.

non acceptable and totally anti social, I find it selfish to say things like basically “be like me, or you deserve nothing”

I know too, that Anet has to make money, but they have more than enough options to make money, other then to rely themself only on minipet sales, thats bull****
So important can’t minipets be alone that Anet needs to desperately wrench every Dollar out of them thats possible to make profit from, like a sponge full of water that you want to wrench fully, until it’s as dry as dust, when there are literally a douzen of sponges, which can get wrenched out together, without that one has to get wrenched out completely, if you get that metaphor….

Sure, my example above for the craftign recipe was just a silly example to show, what i mean. A recipe like that for craftign a mini oakheart should be naturally in the end more harder to obtain and craft in the end, so that the recipe reflects better the current value of the minipet, but that would be naturally something that Anet would have to scale, how much materials people would have to collect and what they would have to collect for the minipets, but the point is, clear crafting recipes for minipets would 100% sure solve the problem, that the minis won’t die out, and that there will be always enough in the TP offered by players for sell, that their prices won#t explode into absolute unreachability that you can’t get them anymore, other then by putting tons of money into the game to get the gold faster thats required to buy them from the TP that absolutely doesn’t equals by relation the amount of gems having to get to buy a mini pet set 1 from the shop….

If Anet really wants just to make the tier 1 minis rarer and making more profit, they could simply also raise the shop price for t1 minis from 300 gems to say 600 gems
T1 ’s would get automatically rarer through this, because the income of new t1 minipets would definetely slow down then, but people would still have a normal way of getting minipets without having to waste senselessly minipets in the mystic toilet and wasting tons of gold in the TP to buy off all of the minipets to just waste them in the mystic toilet to have a slight chance on the rng crap to get exactly that pet, that you need, what also massively increases on the fly the prices for all the decreasing minis in the TP again..

its an endless cycle of minipet inflation that has to get broken by craftable minipet recipes, at least for t1 for now when they remove the set 1 from the shop.

Good idea though, buy all the blue season 1 mini pets so you cant forge those. Probably not that profitable but not too expensive either.