Guild Wars 2

For the Mini’s, I asked Arena Net via their support line to see if they are making the mini’s a one-time this year event. Now this would be fine…if it was plausibly able to be achieved by all.

10% of us play the market for gold, and are rich. They have all the mini’s because of this and I salute them for being able to play the market and make it big.

10% of us are casual gamers, maybe get on every week or two to play, and I say go for it. They can’t earn the gold to transfer to gems, so they may purchase gems, IF, in real life, they are willing to do so.

For the people who aren’t either, the 80% of us, we struggle making enough gold per day for making maybe 3-5g without doing repetitive tasks, or we randomly do parts all over the world. We don’t have the gold, and for those who don’t have spare cash on them, bought gems, we struggle on getting gems for the events.

Now, I have three options that may make things at least less pressured for this:

Option #1: Have mini’s not be random.
With this option, we can buy the mini’s like Halloween, or how Wintersday is doing them I’m not picky, but make it so everyone can get the item from the event without hassle of the lottery. From the wiki, there were tests and it’s 1% for each “Masterwork” Mini, and .01% for the Quaggan. Playing the lottery for something that may disappear this Wintersday frustrates everyone, even the rich 10%. They could spend all their gold and still not get any(to extreme odds). The people who don’t have money, or gold, give up on the idea altogether. Having this option open encourages the flat rate for win to all, instead of envy of many.

Option #2: Have Wintersday Mystery Gifts drop.
This option allows us a way to get the random chance, without killing our wallets. We can farm on a fair drop rate of enemies, dropping rate for the lower level the enemy(so lv80’s can’t wipe out lv2’s and win instantly). This won’t make everyone happy, but it will allow the chance for everyone to get the items they want.

Option #3: Keep the Mini’s around for all Wintersdays
You can add more if you’d like, in fact more content would be appreciated, but don’t wipe out the old content. What if someone gets Guild Wars 2 for Christmas, tried to get enough gold for even one gift from the gem store, and it vanishes without any hope? Do they not deserve the mini’s as well? What about the people spending all their free time with the game, earning gold, trying…trying…and failing because their chance was ripped from them, and even if they wait a year they can’t ever get it back? This option is one I think should be implemented no matter the circumstance for the other two.

Now who is with me on any of these Options?

Option #4: make the minis tradable. There are tons of double minis around, since people spent even 120$ on the Boxes. The prices won’t be very high for the first weeks. Everyone with a bit of money would have a chance of getting all the 4 minis and people would be happy.

Option #4: With that comes the 10% cornering the market.

I’m not in that 10%, and i was able to buy all the 3 Lost Shore’s minis. They weren’t that high during the 5-6 days after the end of the Event. Now the mini Karka is about 90g.

It’s just a matter of being quick and get the stuff you want when the price is low. And i think everyone who wants the 4 minis would be quick, for sure.

Think about the people who are getting the game for christmas

I get your point, and i agree with you.

But since 1 week of Wintersday has gone, and people spent an insane amount of real money in those Boxes, it would be a real scam to make nearly everyone able to get the minis for free.

Removing the account bound thing, imho, would make nearly everyone happy. The new players, if they REALLY want all the minipets, would know that earning enough money (1 month of farm farm farm will get you 100g, i think) would provide them the minipets.

The disturbing fact in this Mystery Boxes thing, imho, it’s just that you really don’t know if even spending 1000$ you’d get all the minis.

It is a disturbing fact, and it’s horrible. If you look at the data from the wiki THEY have on their main site, you will see just how horrible the odds are

I agree they should be tradable. That way everyone who wants them would have a chance of getting them. I don’t think it’d lead to lost sales for Anet either because more people who have the money in real life would buy boxes in hopes of getting one to sell.

It would also make people like me more willing to risk it. At the moment I don’t want to buy the boxes even though I want all the minis because of the high probability that if I do get ‘lucky’ I’ll end up stuck with useless extras (yes you can use 3 to make the quaggan, but if you get more repeats you’re stuck). If they were tradable it’d be a better deal because if I got, for example 2 golems I could sell one and use the money to buy a snowman or airship. Or swap with a friend who also has an extra.

I just don’t understand why, after all the complaints about Halloween weapon skins and Anet seemingly admitting it was a mistake and making huge improvements for future events they’ve just gone and shifted the problem to a different item. Did they really think it was only weapon skin fans who would hate this system?

As one of the persons who play this game a LOT but don’t want to play the market (That’s work for me, not gaming), I’m still in the struggle area. I support any of these options, with the note that #3 should be announced at the beginning of the event like “We’re releasing new minis, they will only be available every Wintersday.” This actually might also be the common ground for the players who are sick and tired of RNG – Cause even if we don’t get lucky, we still have until next year to farm up some gold and try again, instead of this stressed kitten.