Guild Wars 2

I woke up this morning and was thinking about my disappointment with today’s sale. Mostly because it did not fit my needs, or perhaps I expected something more grandiose as it is their 3rd year anniversary… and something occurred to me. I have found myself disappointed with what I perceived as the decline in content or the short sightedness of events and sales, only to come to the simple truth that while I find certain things of unsatisfactory like changes about balance and sales and events, it is only because I have an unrealistic expectation of Arena net as a company.

They have been so grand and outstanding in everything surrounding guild wars for a long time and I think they set the bar quite high for themselves. Especially in the first year of the release the constant events and content. Mad king’s revenge was outstanding(still sad they didn’t bring that jump puzzle back)… so many things were amazing that I came to believe that they would be able to, or even that we as their loyal players were entitled to this pace of content, these sales, events…

I and many other players have lost sight of what matters. We feel betrayed by the price of the expansion as we payed for the game once before, but we fail to realize that they literally busted kitten for 2 years to provide some of the best content I believe this game will ever see. The company can’t keep this pace up forever and while they still provide some outstanding content I guess it is unfair of us as their long term players to really feel disappointed in their performance because not only did they go above expectation and provide us with such a good time over the first few years.

In short I hope they can retain some of their former glory, and never stop going out of their way to provide great events and put real thought into sales and content… but I know that is an unrealistic expectation and, while I myself am on a fixed income and find it hard to save money for the games I want to play I cannot feel disappointing in them selling heart of thorns at full price to veterans because I can only assume they will do their best to provide the same kind of content for the same price as before. Here’s hoping, and happy hunting.

Sure, they got off to a great start with the game but out of 3 years this anniversary sale is actually the worst. You can say I’m just being salty cause I didn’t get the items I want which is true but whats also true is that anet put a tonne of useless gemstore items nobody would want for crazy discounts like 90%

Have you seen what’s happened in the last few weeks with the gold/gem conversion rates? Isn’t this directly related to people converting gold to gems to buy items from the Gem Shop? To me it looks like they are experiencing their best sales period since the start of this game, by far.
There are other issues of concern, but as far as sales goes, they are doing something very right for the business.

What were you expecting in the anniversary sale?

They’ve brought back and/or discounted a whole range of weapon and armor skins, outfits, minis, toys, bank tabs, bag slots, infinite gathering tools and various other items and added some new stuff. There’s a full list in this thread

Unless you were waiting for a specific item which hasn’t appeared, or somehow confused a gem store sale with a new release, I’m having a hard time understanding why it’s disappointing.

For me this is actually better than the first year anniversary sale – when that was announced I decided I’d get the infinite gathering tools when they came back (there were only 3 at the time) and a bank tab when they were discounted. I got the molten pick even though I didn’t like the animation and a month later they brought out the bone pick which I liked a lot more. As for the bank tab I ended up waiting 5 months because they didn’t go on sale until January.

We aren’t entitled to sales, they are doing us a favor by having one and it sounds ungrateful that some people are complaining about a favor.

Stop thinking about yourself people, Anet has shareholders they have a responsibility to.

I know there is a sale going on here, and yes there are a few items that are popular on the sale, but if you look at the popularity of said item, you will notice a direct correlation with the sale pricing of them. namely that anything of popularity and value is only slightly marked down. there are one or 2 exceptions in my book, although I own them already, the 80% off mini sale was nice, along with the wings and gathering tools being 50% off. everything else is either deeply discounted and unpopular, or not discounted at all.

TLDR this is a very cherry picked sale with the focus of deep discounts on junk and slight discounts on anything of popularity..

Danikat.8537:

What were you expecting in the anniversary sale?

They’ve brought back and/or discounted a whole range of weapon and armor skins, outfits, minis, toys, bank tabs, bag slots, infinite gathering tools and various other items and added some new stuff. There’s a full list in this thread

Unless you were waiting for a specific item which hasn’t appeared, or somehow confused a gem store sale with a new release, I’m having a hard time understanding why it’s disappointing.

For me this is actually better than the first year anniversary sale – when that was announced I decided I’d get the infinite gathering tools when they came back (there were only 3 at the time) and a bank tab when they were discounted. I got the molten pick even though I didn’t like the animation and a month later they brought out the bone pick which I liked a lot more. As for the bank tab I ended up waiting 5 months because they didn’t go on sale until January.

From the first 5 replies it seems like nobody took the time to actually read what I was posting. I will quote my own post “my disappointment with today’s sale. Mostly because it did not fit my needs, or perhaps I expected something more grandiose as it is their 3rd year anniversary”

This was a post talking about how we are often juxtaposed to the idea that Anet is a company and can’t possibly always meet up to our expectations because we hold them to a standard that they couldn’t reach again even if they wanted to. So in that this was more to shed light on the fact that we often hold have expectations of amazing sales that suit OUR needs only, or we get upset when they don’t do what we would normally expect them to do and how that is not really fair to a company.

We do as a community get upset when they do things like release sales that are in no way related to buy patterns. As a company they have information on top selling items and could have chosen items that they know we are likely to need or that would be considerably more beneficial for the majority player base. Things like the “item booster” and costume setups that have notoriously low sale rates probably will tend to disappoint the mass of players because they neglect the realization that many of those items are not being purchased at all, much less do they meet up to the expectations of an all amazing anniversary sale celebrating their glorious third year in operation. That being said, that was not the focus of my post. The focus was on the idea that we as a community should be more forgiving of them for not meeting up to our expectations because our expectations are going to be unreachable high because we have set such a high bar for Anet and it is unreasonable.

Please next time before you take the time to hassle a forum post taking the white knight position, read the whole post and understand its context. Thank you.