Guild Wars 2

As the title say some or most of these have been on the gem store and people used money on them. The rarity and the slim chance they were on the gem store in the first place was what made them special. This just feels lazy and kind of rude towards the customers that payed real money to get them.
/end rant

The weirdest thing I find out of the whole thing, is people have been begging for them to come back to the gem store for the whole sale, wanting to spend money on it.
I realize that they were probably planned as event rewards for some time, but I’m surprised they weren’t swapped for something else and put in the gem store.

Maybe part of the whole "armor as an in-game reward thing, I dunno.

oh man, with the problems with the event rewards if bunny ears had been on that list high enough people didn’t think they’d be possible to get can you imagine the rage?

I really don’t understand the issue.

The Gem Store is not a 100% cash-only shop. You can convert gold to gems, thereby getting items without paying real money. That has always been the entire premise of GW2’s Gem Store. The items have never been exclusive to those willing to part with real cash.

And yet here they’ve introduced a way to get the items without money… and people are up in arms about it.

What’s the difference between “do an event to get an item” or “grind some gold, convert to gems, get item”?

800 gems = $10.00
800 gems buys roughly 150 gold…
gemstore items costing 800 gems now cost a couple gold and a few hours of work.

can you earn 150+ gold in a couple hours? nope…

that’s why they are mad…. it has cheapened the item considerably… if the prices were say 50 gold plus blooms, then yea, I could start to go along with it… but as for now, its considerably cheaper and I can understand the anger a bit.

Electro.4173:

I really don’t understand the issue.

The Gem Store is not a 100% cash-only shop. You can convert gold to gems, thereby getting items without paying real money. That has always been the entire premise of GW2’s Gem Store. The items have never been exclusive to those willing to part with real cash.

And yet here they’ve introduced a way to get the items without money… and people are up in arms about it.

What’s the difference between “do an event to get an item” or “grind some gold, convert to gems, get item”?

But… there are people who HAVE had spent real money on these items. How do you not understand?
I didn’t spend real money on those items when they were in the gemstore but I can understand their displeasure about it.

CorrynnStarr.7942:

800 gems = $10.00
800 gems buys roughly 150 gold…
gemstore items costing 800 gems now cost a couple gold and a few hours of work.

can you earn 150+ gold in a couple hours? nope…

that’s why they are mad…. it has cheapened the item considerably… if the prices were say 50 gold plus blooms, then yea, I could start to go along with it… but as for now, its considerably cheaper and I can understand the anger a bit.

So if its just price, what if they had brought back the items at a 75% discount on the Gem Store? Everyone would be ticked off about that?

And besides, current math puts it at well over a couple hours of grind, at least with the rewards they way they currently are. We don’t know exactly how the rewards are supposed to be since the devs have said that it’s supposed to stack with how many events you do (and it doesn’t seem to be working that way), but at 5-10 blooms per event, which is what we’re currently getting, if people get anything at all, it’d be anywhere from 23-50 events before you can get enough blooms to buy the items. Which is 690 minutes, or 11 hours of pure grind.

Joopy.6547:

Electro.4173:

I really don’t understand the issue.

The Gem Store is not a 100% cash-only shop. You can convert gold to gems, thereby getting items without paying real money. That has always been the entire premise of GW2’s Gem Store. The items have never been exclusive to those willing to part with real cash.

And yet here they’ve introduced a way to get the items without money… and people are up in arms about it.

What’s the difference between “do an event to get an item” or “grind some gold, convert to gems, get item”?

But… there are people who HAVE had spent real money on these items. How do you not understand?
I didn’t spend real money on those items when they were in the gemstore but I can understand their displeasure about it.

But are they displeased that you got them without spending real money? This still requires gold and a lot of events to afford them, and unless the bloom reward is increased, a player can’t get them all, maybe even one, without playing 24 hour a day while the event is live.

I would pay cash to avoid that grind.

I’m farming for the Toxic Gloves. I dont mind it, if i did not get 0 rewards no matter how hard i push myself over 20-30 stacks during the event.

That, i do mind.

I bought the Scarlet Gloves and Spaulders previously with real money. I am 100% okay with this. I don’t panic when someone buys a designer bag I splurged for on sale or for nickels at a thrift store.

Joopy.6547:

Electro.4173:

I really don’t understand the issue.

The Gem Store is not a 100% cash-only shop. You can convert gold to gems, thereby getting items without paying real money. That has always been the entire premise of GW2’s Gem Store. The items have never been exclusive to those willing to part with real cash.

And yet here they’ve introduced a way to get the items without money… and people are up in arms about it.

What’s the difference between “do an event to get an item” or “grind some gold, convert to gems, get item”?

But… there are people who HAVE had spent real money on these items. How do you not understand?
I didn’t spend real money on those items when they were in the gemstore but I can understand their displeasure about it.

Yes, there are people who in the past spent real money on the item. And at that moment they chose to spend real money, they also had the option of instead using in-game gold and not using real money. And yet they still chose to spend cash, deeming the purchase worthwhile. Likewise, at that same time there were no doubt other players choosing the other avenue and getting the items “for free” (at least in terms of real cash) by converting gold to gems.

There were players running around with an item they obtained for free compared to those who spent cash on them when the items were first available, and no one batted an eyelash about it. But now that there’s a different way to get them for free, its a great rant-worthy betrayal. Nope, not seeing the logic there, honestly.

What about everyone who used Gold → Gem transfer to get a sale item over the last few weeks?

Its an event to let new players get access to a bunch of items – remember new players will have been priced out of the market for Gold → Gems purchases recently, this lets them get access by playing.

I spent real money on a number of items because I wanted them and was glad to have them. I find real money much easier to come by than gold, as a matter of fact. I’m glad others will have a chance to get the cool stuff now.

No, I’m not distressed.