Guild Wars 2

I play casually and I’m not a gold farmer, neither am I a TP kitten for buying on mass and selling on mass. I play a little every now and then and as such, I don’t have crazy gold.

You seen intent to add some really good looking components via an extremely extortionate route however through black lion trading scraps – and this is not just a general shell game (find the pea under the shell) but it’s also a ridiculous idea and a horrendous business model.

In short I must purchase with either gold (which is highly impractical at the conversion rate and my playtime) or with real money (lets say 12 per £10) the equivalent of 12 lottery tickets on the slight chance I may get what I am after.

In all likeliness, I believe even after £50 I would not see the level of luck needed to achieve one of the skins I seek.

Personally, I’m not going to spend £50 on a skin, and I’m sure as hell not going to spend £50 on the chance of a skin, I wouldn’t even spend £5 of that kind of gamble, especially without even knowing the odds (and as such no guarantee that you are telling the truth)

Get rid of this lottery crap and set the ability to purchase these skins at a definite, single and outright price. Definitely drop the bullkitten regarding a random chance to receive something you want – only for you to withhold the actual percentage of chance you will receive said items.

From a trading standard point of view, how do we even know this is not a con? Even slot machines have a legal limit to what can or cannot payout with a legal obligation to state what the odds are – perhaps you could take this into consideration before offering false hope to the willing masses and publish the odds of receiving said items.

This must be your first MMO. This is simply the way the genre works. We pay money to the publisher and the developers are given more of a budget to bring us new content and features. Intentionally shooting themselves and their profits in the foot is not something NCsoft will allow Anet to do, so this is the way it must be.

Honestly, I’m just grateful that it’s only optional weapon skins, they could have overpowered stat boosters hidden behind RNG.

Jrunyon.3012:

This must be your first MMO. This is simply the way the genre works. We pay money to the publisher and the developers are given more of a budget to bring us new content and features. Intentionally shooting themselves and their profits in the foot is not something NCsoft will allow Anet to do, so this is the way it must be.

Honestly, I’m just grateful that it’s only optional weapon skins, they could have overpowered stat boosters hidden behind RNG.

Very condescending. “This is simply the way the genre works” is the laziest, least convincing, response to an issue you could give. No. “The genre” does not need to rely on slot machines and such conditioning to work.

On topic, the RNG worship in guild wars 2 (and many other games) is irritating, and sometimes insulting. But I guess enough people are sucked in by variable reward schedules that it works. (I think that’s what you call the kind of conditioning you get with slot machines, anyway.)