Guild Wars 2

Behellagh.1468:

uhohhotdog.3598:

Tickets are my primary reason. Everything else is bonus

Just a flesh wound.3589:

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Tickets are my primary reason also. Everything else is bonus.

Then you have no right to complain about the drop rate or how much it costs in gold or cash to get a ticket.

Tickets were added well after launch when the BLC were introduced. It was done to spur key sales. Once they were added key drops, from map completion and BLCs themselves almost entirely dried up. Key farming became an acceptable gameplay option.

In the end it’s one of the motivators driving the pathological need to farm gold to buy those skins directly or gems for keys to get tickets. And farming for gold is why players cry grind. It’s just another “reward” mechanic that makes the game rewards feel … unrewarding.

Don’t give in. As soon as you make the rewards received more important than the enjoyment of playing the game is no longer a game, a source of enjoyment but an obligation, a job. And don’t you have enough of those?

Excuse me???

Where have I complained about the drop rate or the cost to get in gold or cash? Please. Find one post. I’ve always said I do key runs, which means I never buy keys.. At most I’ve debated the most cost effective way to get them.

And when you don’t, maybe you should stop quoting people at random and claiming they said things they never did. As that’s very bad forum manners.

aspirine.6852:

Trying to get people to buy keys and implement such an rng on the chest is not a scam you say?

A scam would require ArenaNet to not give you what you paid for.

What you did pay for was a key that would unlock a chest that had a bunch of potential drops. You are always guaranteed to get some of those drops. Therefore you get exactly what you paid for, ergo not a scam.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Behellagh.1468:

uhohhotdog.3598:

Tickets are my primary reason. Everything else is bonus

Just a flesh wound.3589:

^
Tickets are my primary reason also. Everything else is bonus.

Then you have no right to complain about the drop rate or how much it costs in gold or cash to get a ticket.

Tickets were added well after launch when the BLC were introduced. It was done to spur key sales. Once they were added key drops, from map completion and BLCs themselves almost entirely dried up. Key farming became an acceptable gameplay option.

In the end it’s one of the motivators driving the pathological need to farm gold to buy those skins directly or gems for keys to get tickets. And farming for gold is why players cry grind. It’s just another “reward” mechanic that makes the game rewards feel … unrewarding.

Don’t give in. As soon as you make the rewards received more important than the enjoyment of playing the game is no longer a game, a source of enjoyment but an obligation, a job. And don’t you have enough of those?

Excuse me???

Where have I complained about the drop rate or the cost to get in gold or cash? Please. Find one post. I’ve always said I do key runs, which means I never buy keys.. At most I’ve debated the most cost effective way to get them.

And when you don’t, maybe you should stop quoting people at random and claiming they said things they never did. As that’s very bad forum manners.

It was a general you.

Behellagh.1468:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Behellagh.1468:

uhohhotdog.3598:

Tickets are my primary reason. Everything else is bonus

Just a flesh wound.3589:

^
Tickets are my primary reason also. Everything else is bonus.

Then you have no right to complain about the drop rate or how much it costs in gold or cash to get a ticket.

Tickets were added well after launch when the BLC were introduced. It was done to spur key sales. Once they were added key drops, from map completion and BLCs themselves almost entirely dried up. Key farming became an acceptable gameplay option.

In the end it’s one of the motivators driving the pathological need to farm gold to buy those skins directly or gems for keys to get tickets. And farming for gold is why players cry grind. It’s just another “reward” mechanic that makes the game rewards feel … unrewarding.

Don’t give in. As soon as you make the rewards received more important than the enjoyment of playing the game is no longer a game, a source of enjoyment but an obligation, a job. And don’t you have enough of those?

Excuse me???

Where have I complained about the drop rate or the cost to get in gold or cash? Please. Find one post. I’ve always said I do key runs, which means I never buy keys.. At most I’ve debated the most cost effective way to get them.

And when you don’t, maybe you should stop quoting people at random and claiming they said things they never did. As that’s very bad forum manners.

It was a general you.

Quoting me specifically made it look like a specific you.

I was quoting more the attitude that chests were all about tickets. As long as players go in knowing that the chest’s value in relation to the key price isn’t the tickets and therefore isn’t gambling and that as long as they know buying keys it isn’t the cheapest way to get those skins then fine. They can knock themselves out. But then don’t complain about it.

There is a reason opening a BLC is like playing a slot machine in both look and feel. That’s all it is. The key is just your coin for the machine.

If you don’t want to buy keys (like me) and don’t mind doing some mind-numbing work for it, you can still farm the keys on an open account slot and usually get a completed ticket once a month if you play as casually as i do these days, or even faster if you are tome-ing up to 10 then blazing through the human commoner line.

Either way, its just a gamble and its one that you can take risk free by doing some low level map opening and completing the first PS story step over and over again.

Not to mention the gold you can passively make by gathering mats in those areas and just selling them off while doing that opening and PS story step.