Guild Wars 2

Thanks for the “100% OFF Black Friday Weekend Thank You Sales Event”. This is how it should have been pitched of course, with a strong dose of wink-wink nudge-nudge.

I will certainly use my 5 free items, but the strategy here is Hard to understand.

Most people have only X amount money to spend for the holidays. There were so many great deals on other tangible things I really needed, that I actually went a little over budget to get extra items I had not expected to be able to achieve. I did not finalize my purchase decisions until late Friday, after checking back twice in game for any sale event. I suppose I should thank Anet for making it easy to ignore my number one hobby by Failing to Compete in the market place this Black Friday season, and forcing me to be responsible and only buy what I really needed.

Except of course for the $100 earmarked Entertainment Money I spent on multiple other games that did offer really great deals. I consider some entertainment a very great need, especially for the homebound, but try to exercise strict discipline on those expenses. Here I spent 6 months of fun money in about 6 hours.

It will be sad if Anet does choose to have a sale, for example on Cyber Monday, because my mad money is gone. I could not find any whisper of an upcoming sale despite multiple searches, so I did the only rational thing and seized the bird in the hand.

My only comment on the comical Mystic Forge Stone boondoggle, is to suggest that the execution of the trivial task of picking 6 cheap things to give away, and failing even that, is a just reflection of the whole Gem Store marketing effort.

JakHammer.7094:

…picking 6 cheap things to give away…

Yeah, don’t make it memorable or anything. lol

I think Black Friday was a missed opportunity for Anet to make some extra revenue on Gem sales. As Jak mentions, all my money was spent on Friday. Had there been some type of Gem sale or big across-the-board discounts (50% off everything for 24 hours or something), I would have spent some money on getting more Gems.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I think Black Friday was a missed opportunity for Anet to make some extra revenue on Gem sales. As Jak mentions, all my money was spent on Friday. Had there been some type of Gem sale or big across-the-board discounts (50% off everything for 24 hours or something), I would have spent some money on getting more Gems.

Honestly, given that the 20% sale we had on Nov. 13th to the 20th coincided with nothing (except maybe the Great American Smokeout on the 19th), I’m inclined to believe they just released the Thanksgiving/Black Friday sales a week too early.

Looks like Cybermonday is a lackluster sale on keys, account bump, and account jump start.

Qelris.6901:

Today’s free item was a Bank Express and.. according to GW2Timers, there should be a Mystic Forge Stone for free .Except, free or priced, I cannot see them at all. Anyone else?

Free mystic forge stone is there now.

So all those saying that there was no BF because they were saving the deals for Cyber Monday… hope you enjoyed your discounted treat! (s) if you include the stone that was supposed to be the day before…
Its nice to know they cant have any sales because they need to put all this cash into esports.