Guild Wars 2

ANet’s use of hard-coded time gates is becoming a lot more liberal than most players would like to see.

I believe using Mystic Coins as an ingredient in recipes to time gate is a superior solution in time-gating content. Compared to hard-coded time gating, using Mystic Coins, the leniency of the time gate scales automatically to match the desirability of the released items and to the time elapsed since its release due to the Trading Post’s supply & demand mechanics. This is more reasonable to me and feels much less restrictive than the hard-coded time gates that ANet currently has implemented.

Mystic Coins are already ingredients in Legendaries and certain Exotic skins, but it needs to be more prevalent in new content for it to become an effective time gating method, due to the current surplus in Mystic Coins in the market.

DISCLAIMER: Yes, I have a large stockpile of Mystic Coins at the moment. But I do stand behind my position that Mystic Coins are the best way forward if there need to be some form of time gating in GW2.

It makes more sense for anet to add endless types of currencies instead of using existing perfectly viable ones… If you think about it, mystic coins are acquired the same way as laurels.

The existence of laurels is pretty much proof that ANet is unsatisfied with the effectiveness of Mystic Coins as a time gate.

This is only because the economy was already flooded with them… And because they can be sold, all they had to do was return the ones on the to to their owner and make them account bound.