2017 BLTC Sale
The sale goes on until at least the end of August, we’ve only seen the first half, or less.
In previous years they’ve held back the most popular items like bank tabs and shared inventory slots until the end of the sale – probably because that way the gold to gems exchange rate has gone up, people have spent gems they’ve been holding onto and so people are more likely to spend real money to get gems. If they did it the other way around people would buy the ‘must have’ items and skip the fluff.
Edit: Also insert usual disclaimer about personal preference, some people really like this stuff, people say the same thing every year etc.
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I think we can expect some of those to be on sale next week or possibly the week after. Many characters will be turning 5 at that point, so I expect the sales to build up to some grand finale around then. I’m watching for many of the same things.
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https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gem_Store/Anniversary_Sales
That has up to the 22nd in it.
And yeah I get personal preference and all that, but these are not actual physical items, they do not exist until you purchase them and even then they are only 1’s and 0’s stored on ANets server somewhere. They lose nothing by having a sale that includes more items.
There have already been some popular skins plus the controversial (and nearly-lucrative) watchwork mining pick.
Given how many items there are available in the gem shop, if they discount only 3/day, there still isn’t enough time in the month for everything that someone might want to go on sale.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
There have already been some popular skins plus the controversial (and nearly-lucrative) watchwork mining pick.
Given how many items there are available in the gem shop, if they discount only 3/day, there still isn’t enough time in the month for everything that someone might want to go on sale.
See that’s what I don’t get, why not just go blanket -20% for the whole shop for the month?
There have already been some popular skins plus the controversial (and nearly-lucrative) watchwork mining pick.
Given how many items there are available in the gem shop, if they discount only 3/day, there still isn’t enough time in the month for everything that someone might want to go on sale.
See that’s what I don’t get, why not just go blanket -20% for the whole shop for the month?
Because then only the most impatient would buy stuff the rest of the year — the rest of us would gladly wait 11 months or less to get 20% off.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
There have already been some popular skins plus the controversial (and nearly-lucrative) watchwork mining pick.
Given how many items there are available in the gem shop, if they discount only 3/day, there still isn’t enough time in the month for everything that someone might want to go on sale.
See that’s what I don’t get, why not just go blanket -20% for the whole shop for the month?
Because then only the most impatient would buy stuff the rest of the year — the rest of us would gladly wait 11 months or less to get 20% off.
It’s not like stores don’t sell anything before the christmas sales once per year. Most chains have sales all the time.
This year the sales started earlier than ever before and this far they’ve always lasted at least to august 29th (which would be end of 3rd week this year). They’ve also usually started with skins and visual stuff and brought the useful stuffs to sale towards the end of sales. Kitty knows that “Everything. Here. Now.” is quite common attitude these days, but she’d advice patience in this case. Rant after sales are over. <.<
There have already been some popular skins plus the controversial (and nearly-lucrative) watchwork mining pick.
Given how many items there are available in the gem shop, if they discount only 3/day, there still isn’t enough time in the month for everything that someone might want to go on sale.
See that’s what I don’t get, why not just go blanket -20% for the whole shop for the month?
Because then only the most impatient would buy stuff the rest of the year — the rest of us would gladly wait 11 months or less to get 20% off.
It’s not like stores don’t sell anything before the christmas sales once per year. Most chains have sales all the time.
What stores discount everything by 20% during the holidays? What stores discount everything at any point in time? Only those trying to clear all their inventory because sales have been bad and they need the cash now.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
This year the sales started earlier than ever before and this far they’ve always lasted at least to august 29th (which would be end of 3rd week this year). They’ve also usually started with skins and visual stuff and brought the useful stuffs to sale towards the end of sales. Kitty knows that “Everything. Here. Now.” is quite common attitude these days, but she’d advice patience in this case. Rant after sales are over. <.<
Yeah, they have started earlier, I just don’t see the point in these sorts of marketing ploys. I’m not going to buy any of this crap so I’ll have to wait another 3 weeks to see if ANet gets my money. That’s all. It’s just a shame to me they don’t go “For 3 weeks, 20% of everything in the gem store” and be done with it, I’d probably blow a lot more coin then as it’s spaced out over several pay cheques.
There have already been some popular skins plus the controversial (and nearly-lucrative) watchwork mining pick.
Given how many items there are available in the gem shop, if they discount only 3/day, there still isn’t enough time in the month for everything that someone might want to go on sale.
See that’s what I don’t get, why not just go blanket -20% for the whole shop for the month?
Because then only the most impatient would buy stuff the rest of the year — the rest of us would gladly wait 11 months or less to get 20% off.
It’s not like stores don’t sell anything before the christmas sales once per year. Most chains have sales all the time.
What stores discount everything by 20% during the holidays? What stores discount everything at any point in time? Only those trying to clear all their inventory because sales have been bad and they need the cash now.
Every major chain here in Australia has sales like you are talking about every year, Boxing Day in particular. And you are right, they want to clear inventory. So they can get new stock, not necessarily because sales have been bad.
The gem store doesn’t have inventory and the stock never gets old, it’s never outdated and there is no cost to storing it.
Like I mentioned above, it’s just marketing and that’s what annoys me.
This year the sales started earlier than ever before and this far they’ve always lasted at least to august 29th (which would be end of 3rd week this year). They’ve also usually started with skins and visual stuff and brought the useful stuffs to sale towards the end of sales. Kitty knows that “Everything. Here. Now.” is quite common attitude these days, but she’d advice patience in this case. Rant after sales are over. <.<
Yeah, they have started earlier, I just don’t see the point in these sorts of marketing ploys. I’m not going to buy any of this crap so I’ll have to wait another 3 weeks to see if ANet gets my money. That’s all. It’s just a shame to me they don’t go “For 3 weeks, 20% of everything in the gem store” and be done with it, I’d probably blow a lot more coin then as it’s spaced out over several pay cheques.
There have already been some popular skins plus the controversial (and nearly-lucrative) watchwork mining pick.
Given how many items there are available in the gem shop, if they discount only 3/day, there still isn’t enough time in the month for everything that someone might want to go on sale.
See that’s what I don’t get, why not just go blanket -20% for the whole shop for the month?
Because then only the most impatient would buy stuff the rest of the year — the rest of us would gladly wait 11 months or less to get 20% off.
It’s not like stores don’t sell anything before the christmas sales once per year. Most chains have sales all the time.
What stores discount everything by 20% during the holidays? What stores discount everything at any point in time? Only those trying to clear all their inventory because sales have been bad and they need the cash now.
Every major chain here in Australia has sales like you are talking about every year, Boxing Day in particular. And you are right, they want to clear inventory. So they can get new stock, not necessarily because sales have been bad.
The gem store doesn’t have inventory and the stock never gets old, it’s never outdated and there is no cost to storing it.
Like I mentioned above, it’s just marketing and that’s what annoys me.
It’s all pricing & marketing. I’m not sure why this particular practice annoys you more than any of the others. There’s literally no particular reason for character slots (for example to cost 800 gems rather than 750 or 850, other than it’s a round US$10.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”