Guild Wars 2

I ask this because that is the conclusion I have come too having now watched in disbelief as you flood the market with gold and Celestial Skins

Something always irked me about a game that has no progression upwards but, instead, chooses to progress sideways. Eventually one thinks that there is no sense in continuing.

with regards to the handouts that you have instigated through the achievements I am not sure what to think. Part of me takes a cynical view at that. As flooding the market with gold will encourage those to spend it but where? Oh wait I also got some black lion items. Perhaps I should spend it on Gems? and et-voila one sees the price of gems staying either constant or rising.

My Char is level 80 and has all exotics there is in my mind no sense in even spending one second trying to get the mats together for Legendary items as they do not hit for anymore than the exotics so in effect all you are doing is spending all that time to get a new skin. But then with the introduction of Zephyrs you now have a situation where getting rid of all your Junk in your storage you can get recipes for new skins. Wait…. In the last expansion of GW1 didn’t you introduce that idea but instead it was used for buffs?

To add to this I do not know what to make of the introduction of holographic wings in a game that doesn’t allow flying? Was that some kind of inside joke from people sitting around the conference table who had had far too much coffee that afternoon?

This and many other things are what have caused me to conclude that indeed you are wrapping up the game and moving on.

Flooding the market with gold? I’m sorry I can’t take this thread seriously.

At least for me it’s time for new professions and level cap increase.

Cempa.5619:

At least for me it’s time for new professions and level cap increase.

This game is not even 1 year old…

opening your chests for achievements gives you a minimum of 1 gold some chests contain 5 gold now times that by the number of people playing the game

just saying “Flooding the market with gold? I’m sorry I can’t take this thread seriously.”

doesn’t actually say anything except that perhaps you disagree but are too lazy to even post why you disagree or perhaps you disagree because disagreeing is all you can do and for you there are no reasons needed.

I’m still trying to figure this out. What are you basing your assumptions on? More free stuff = ending the game? Or do you mean that since you’ve run out of things to enjoy doing, you’re ending your own game until GW3?

At the moment there are 21 possible chest you can achieve. They give out, 1, 5 and 15 gold. 1, 2, 5 and 10 laurels. This will occur over the next few weeks.

Assuming you have 10k achievement points you will get somewhere around 40-50 laurels and somewhere around 60 gold over the course of three weeks.

Considering that most people do not have over 6000 achievement points and the fact that these are retroactive and will take 21 days to go fully into effect for the few people that have over 10k points: This is in no way, shape or form flooding the market with gold. This is not affecting the market and it is not harming anything.

In three weeks, I could earn 500 gold simply by farming CoF. Quit your crying and enjoy your free stuff.

WoW players…
WoW players everywhere…

Syktek.7912:

At the moment there are 21 possible chest you can achieve. They give out, 1, 5 and 15 gold. 1, 2, 5 and 10 laurels. This will occur over the next few weeks.

Assuming you have 10k achievement points you will get somewhere around 40-50 laurels and somewhere around 60 gold over the course of three weeks.

Considering that most people do not have over 6000 achievement points and the fact that these are retroactive and will take 21 days to go fully into effect for the few people that have over 10k points: This is in no way, shape or form flooding the market with gold. This is not affecting the market and it is not harming anything.

In three weeks, I could earn 500 gold simply by farming CoF. Quit your crying and enjoy your free stuff.

Well said.

Spoofy is too stupid to critique sorry.

Spoofy.8239:

opening your chests for achievements gives you a minimum of 1 gold some chests contain 5 gold now times that by the number of people playing the game

just saying “Flooding the market with gold? I’m sorry I can’t take this thread seriously.”

doesn’t actually say anything except that perhaps you disagree but are too lazy to even post why you disagree or perhaps you disagree because disagreeing is all you can do and for you there are no reasons needed.

Yes, because everyone is going to get 1-5g just by logging in until the end of time. I think people forget that these are retroactive reward chests based on how much Achievement Points you have earned.

You also realize that 90% of the game don’t have 4000 Achievement Points. Go check the Achievement Points Leaderboard, the lowest you’ll see on any server is ~4000 and it’s still >90% of the entire games AP.

You also talk about sideways game progression simply because there’s no treadmill for you to grind. If grinding for more gear is your idea of an endgame, instead of actually using your gear, then yes, the endgame isn’t up to snuff. However, if you were to actually play the game instead of wanting to treadmill your way to victory (with gear having ridiculous stats after raids etc) then you’d realize that there’s so much more endgame in this game than in a game like WoW.

Sure, in WoW you can grind for OP gear, but then the fights become: “Who has better gear” not “Who has more skill”.

It really depends on what kind of a game you want. Do you want a skill-based MMO or a gear-based MMO? Your answer pretty much tells you whether you should play GW2 or not.

Then we shall wait and see

@Naginto
Stupidity can be judged when measured against intelligence but nothing in your post remotely reflects any measurable intelligence

Yes I’m lazy and it’s getting tiresome answering these stupid threads. Don’t get me wrong but all of your points are at best not well thought out. I’ll put it simply, because I’m lazy as I said.

>Arenanet keeps hiring people and announces increases in content delivery speed
>Concludes that Arenanet is “wrapping up” the game

Or

>Arenanet gives 60g to people playing hardcore for 10 months
>Market is now flooded with money

“Then we shall wait and see” is your rebuttal?

Your title is misleading I thought you were about to post a link on Anet making an announcement about working on gw3. This will get a lot of attention I’m guessing. Has there been any information about gw3? Google says no.

Your post talks about not having any rewards but complain about a flood of rewards.

What reward do you want other than vertical progression or flying? Belcher’s Bluff was a step in the right direction. Mini games offered as rewards.

The very fact that they are introducting new heavily time-gated “content” (celestial stat gear) shows clearly they plan to be here for a long time.
Your conclusion is not well thought-out, i’m afraid.

Spoofy.8239:

opening your chests for achievements gives you a minimum of 1 gold some chests contain 5 gold now times that by the number of people playing the game

Which is much less than one day’s worth of gold spun out of thin air just from COFp1 speed runs.

Also, crafting material costs have been rising – low level mats that sold for 6-10 copper have been going for double that when I go to sell harvested mats the last few days. The 15% TP tax just from the rise in mat prices removes more gold from the game than the achievement chests add.

Cempa.5619:

At least for me it’s time for new professions and level cap increase.

I fail to see the point of a level cap increase in GW2. Everyone will just craft for 20 minutes and be at the new max, then be complaining of boredom again.

You can make 10g in 6k achievements, and 10g in an hour of CoF. I don’t see how the market has been flooded.

Bit overly dramatic, aren´t we.
If you “already” have a lvl80 char then make another one and watch you gold melt.

Wolfheart.1938:

Flooding the market with gold? I’m sorry I can’t take this thread seriously.

That’s exactly where I stopped reading as well.

maybe he just wanted the gold for himself