Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure I have much of an opinion on this, but there has been an interesting discussion going on on reddit and within my guild.

Wooden Potatoes (a prominent GW2 player) was given a preview of the feature pack, and posted this video:

It was the first video to show some of the collections, namely the meta events’ exotic trinkets that can drop is one such collections. Well someone noticed, and pointed it out on reddit, that some of these trinkets in prices have skyrocketed in price before this video came out. (read: the people who got early previews took advantage of what they were shown. Also I’m not accusing WP of anything. the few experiences I’ve had with him during Tequatl events have been nice, and I enjoy his videos. I imagine several different people were shown these new collections).

Here’s the reddit thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2fu2pn/lets_look_at_the_tp_prices_of_some_of_the_rare/

Again I’m not sure what to make of it. Perhaps people are using their “insider knowledge” to profit crazy amounts, or maybe certain people had the idea that these would be in the collections without actually knowing (like myself – I’ve been holding onto the ones I’ve gotten for the past couple weeks..only got blues/greens though whomp), and others saw it rising and joined on the bandwagon.

Regardless, thought it might be worth discussing.

I felt the same way for the first bazaar of the four winds, crafting material price seemed to skyrocket to a point of equilibrium of the supply box.

But it’s hard to say if it is actually because of the testers. Anet could take a snap shot of a price at certain time and use that as price of supply box.

It was a widely complain topic before. I think Anet more or less says they test things internally afterwards, some bloggers/website may get some early information as a promotion.

Honestly, many people known of the collection changes just from the Anet blog, it’s hard to say if it is really because of people getting early preview.

This thing happens pretty much every patch, where items who’s demand is about to increase, mystic forge recipe changes, etc have their price sky rocket up to a week before the patch happens.

The announcement from Anet gives several examples of items that will be in collections, including trinkets:

“Usable items are considered collected once they are used. For example, opening a loot bag or eating food. Bound items are collected the moment they are bound. So, if you loot a ring that is bound on acquisition, congratulations, you’ve contributed to your collection! If you loot a collectible trinket that is tradable, you now have a decision to make—will you bind it to your collection, or sell it on the Trading Post to another industrious collector? Collectible skins are counted toward achievements as soon as they become unlocked in your wardrobe.”
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-collections-achievement-category/

I would have thought part of the process of getting early access to new content is promising not to take advantage of it in this way. It could even be part of a formal, legally binding, contract between Anet and reviewers. It wouldn’t be worth it to them to lose the opportunity to be invited to future previews just to make a bit of extra gold.

well the video is posted on the 8th. the blog is posted on the 3rd. Some people can even speculate because Anet put some hints and tease on change to collection mid august.

It also depends on when certain people get early preview.

when do you started notice price change?

The price change, at least for the Manifesto, occurred the day before the September 3rd announcement. I would link the gw2spidy chart but it resets the image everytime you link it, so here’s a pic of it. Feel free to set it up the same way on spidy if you don’t just trust a pic (understandable)

I think a decent amount of the spikes can be attributed to people being speculative + that article, but some of it just seems like it’s too…coincidental.

kitten, i kept that Eternal Ice that dropped for me a few days ago because i was sure it would be useful for the collections, but i didnt think to buy the stuff up -_- It was still cheap at that time..

Insider trading equals higher prices. Higher prices equals gem sales. If it really wasn’t planned to be this way, they’d simply make NEW items for collections. Thus, we’d all be on equal footing the day of the patch.

Getting incredibly tired of this cat and mouse game of chasing the Dev’s whims.