I would pay $20 dollars for the baby quaggan. I won’t pay $20 dollars for RNG. When people spend real money, they want what they get. If I want to play RNG, i’ll go play lottery where I at least have a chance of getting real money back.
I think you’re missing out on a financial opportunity here, you have items that people want that they can’t farm or work for in game and you’re offering it purely for RNG.
I understand legendary, keep that that way. but town items? who cares if everyone has it, you’re thousands of dollars richer for it. heck, let people. spend $50 dollars for the precursor. I bet people would pay for that too.
Ayra Bleu Wynd (80 Elementalist), Carly R Jepson (80 Thief), Six Inch Samurai (80 Guardian)
Sir Spanx Too Much (80 Warrior), Lanevo X (80 Necromancer), Miss Meryzia (40 Mesmer)
Echoing your sentiment, I’d pay $20-30 for a permanent bank or trading post or merchant or make over kit but I won’t pay a cent for a lottery ticket.
Sadly whoever is in charge of monetization at anet has decided that the player base is a bunch of drooling morons and that more profit can be made by increasing our desire to purchase RNG boxes.
You have gotten what you paid for, all that remains is biweekly gemshop pushing.
What you WILL pay for the baby quaggan is enough to buy the gold to pay the asking price for the person who gets one randomly and chooses to sell it on the trading post.
…And let me asure you, that person is not you friend and will want a LOT of gold for their risk/good fortune.
These items are not going to be valued at 20-30 real dollars – both of them are much rarer and more highly valued by people who can afford them. Sorry, your offer is rejected as small potates. I’d guess the quaggan will settle at about $60 real dollars worth of gold (judging by the Halloween skins) and the Bank express for closer to $150-200. That may be a bit on the low side, actually.
“You keep saying ‘its unfair.’
I wonder what your basis for comparison is…”
- Jareth, King of Goblins.
I don’t quite understand why everyone hated the Halloween system. It allowed people to gamble all they liked, and then everyone else to pay in game gold for the rewards. Allowing the mini on the TP would make it easy to buy with real money. I also assume ANet made a lot of money from people trying to win big on gold.
Over halloween I bought about 10 dollars in keys, got nothing, reforged the nothing into halloween boxes and got a glowie-face shield skin. That I sold for enough money to outfit 3 characters in full exotics. Haven’t had luck like that since, but It doesn’t stop me from putting a few dollars in to the pockets of ANet every now and then. I tend to think of it as my subscription having a very flexible payment schedule 
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“You keep saying ‘its unfair.’
I wonder what your basis for comparison is…”
- Jareth, King of Goblins.