We’ve all seen them.
They post spam in chat and send you mails in broken english telling you how fast they are and how fantastic their prices are.
Sure these guys pose a problem but there’s a larger one:
Arenanet doesn’t give out enough gold rewards or provides a means to make money that counters the sellers who ARE legit.
They exist. They take their job seriously, provide adequate security concerning your personal info and have been providing bargain prices since the inception of WoW.
800 gems typically gets you between 4 and 8 gold, depending on the current exchange rate. Thats 10 dollars.
At one of these legitimate sites, 4 dollars can get you between 10 and 15 gold.
50 dollars is close to 100g.
When Dusk is currently selling on the TP for 400g and you can really only currently expect to make 2-5g a day if you really try, between the gem store and a professional gold seller, which is the better bargain?
Sure. A legendary is meant to be a long term goal. It could take years to get. But im not talking about just legendaries and their precursors.
High end mats
Exotic armor
Cultural armors
Rare dyes
All these and more require large amounts of moolah and theyre not getting any cheaper.
Why is abyss dye 20 gold?
You gonna farm for that?
There’s a fine line between playing to achieve a long term reward and not playing at all because the cost of success is obscene to the point of being comical.
Arenanet needs to work on providing a viable counter method of making gold that would attract players who dont wish to spend money to be virtually wealthy.
I understand that grinding this and that will make you rich in the long run but im guessing the majority of players either dont want to do that because it would begin to feel like a job, or they simply dont have the time.
Legendaries are obtainable by all types of gamers.
But the cost is just too ridiculous.
Its going up.
Our rewards need to scale with it, even if it means simply rewarding 75s at the end of a dungeon instead of 23.
Gold sellers win when the morale of a player is crushed by the sheer sight of the cost of their precursor.
Im not trying to be greedy. I dont want to sound like I want Anet to give me everything.
But when prices are continuously going up and gold making methods are being nerfed and all the while our rewards are in some sort of developement limbo land……..Anet loses money to a gold seller.
I dont know how to achieve the balance i desire, where a casual player can still work for his reward in a reasonable amount of time without feeling the itch to go to a gold seller and without feeling catered to.
But it needs to be struck.
And these blues and greens i just looted off jormag are telling me that the teeter totter is horribly off balance.