Guild Wars 2

I was curious how i could do that. Doing some research i found older posts that explain that i cant do this straight up. I know i can gift gemstore items instead. But that is not what i am after. Looking further, i saw that retailers do sell gemcards. Kinda like giftcards in a physical store, with a code that grands gems on redeeming. However i was wondering if that is even legit? Considering GW2’s website does not sell it themselves in the first place.

+1000 – I’ve tried to gift gems a number of times, and the thought of converting gems to gold then gifting the gold then having the recipient have to convert the gold to gems – you end up having to gift like double or more the gems!

One time I wanted to buy a digital upgrade for someone – but you can’t gift that either, so I was trying to gift the gems for it. Another time someone bought me an item I was about to buy, and they have a lot of ‘stuff’ so I didn’t know what they could use – so I wanted to take those gems and ‘gift it on’ to someone else.

Yes, gifting Gem Card is ‘legit’, just as is gifting the game to someone. You can purchase a Gem Card and either physically give it to another player, or send them the Gem Card code.

Good luck.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Yes, gifting Gem Card is ‘legit’, just as is gifting the game to someone. You can purchase a Gem Card and either physically give it to another player, or send them the Gem Card code.

Good luck.

So if we put that in perspective, we have retailers that sell gemcards for the game, of which the developers (aka Anet) does not even provide on the website..

Doesnt make much sense now does it?

GWMO.4785:

So if we put that in perspective, we have retailers that sell gemcards for the game, of which the developers (aka Anet) does not even provide on the website..

They don’t sell the physical products themselves.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/gems-cards-now-available-at-select-retailers/

Nor does ArenaNet sell physical copies of the game, nor have they ever. Is there a problem?

Seems like letting me gift gems to someone would make Anet more money than making me go buy a gem card at Best Buy and provide them the code – Best Buy has to be taking more than just tax on that sale, even if it’s a small percentage. No sense in inconveniencing me and reducing Anets profit just to stand on principle, IMO. Maybe you can gift a gem purchase directly to another player, I suppose I never tried that exact action.

I assume the ‘no in-game gifting of gems’ is there to ensure the TP gets its conversion claws into things, or to disincentivize the act of people from pooling their remnant/leftover in-game currency (there’s a term for the ‘problem’ you run into with in-game currency when you have, for e.g., 100 or even 15 gems lying around – it’s a good problem for the store to have, because you’ve got potential value there, but you need to give them more money to realize that potential – which keeps you coming back.) – crumbs? something clever and humorous like that…

Primarily, I think, the “no in-game gifting of gems” policy is to reduce complications in case of RMT-motivated hacking. Adds breaks to the Hack account > Buy gems w stored cc > Transfer process.

cyn.2157:

I assume the ‘no in-game gifting of gems’ is there to ensure the TP gets its conversion claws into things, or to disincentivize the act of people from pooling their remnant/leftover in-game currency (there’s a term for the ‘problem’ you run into with in-game currency when you have, for e.g., 100 or even 15 gems lying around – it’s a good problem for the store to have, because you’ve got potential value there, but you need to give them more money to realize that potential – which keeps you coming back.) – crumbs? something clever and humorous like that…

At some point I had 170 gems and only one chapter of season 3 left to buy, which costs 200. Did I buy another 200 or 400 gems? No, I traded gold for exactly 30 gems, and now I have 0 gems lying around.

It’s easy to not buy more gems than you need for the item you desire.

I think the original purpose of gem cards was to enable players who can’t or don’t want to use a bank card online to buy gems with cash, and to allow non-players to buy gems for players. Remember the game is rated 12+ so there are potentially a lot of players in that category.

If you want to gift gems to another player you have 4 options:

• Buy a gem card and either have the card sent to them or send them the code that’s on the back (which is the only bit they really need).
• If you’re able to meet up in real life they can log into their account and you can put your card details in to buy gems.
• Give them the cash, in person or via paypal or bank transfer or something.
• Send gold for them to convert to gems.

cyn.2157:

Seems like letting me gift gems to someone would make Anet more money than making me go buy a gem card at Best Buy and provide them the code – Best Buy has to be taking more than just tax on that sale, even if it’s a small percentage. No sense in inconveniencing me and reducing Anets profit just to stand on principle, IMO. Maybe you can gift a gem purchase directly to another player, I suppose I never tried that exact action.

I assume the ‘no in-game gifting of gems’ is there to ensure the TP gets its conversion claws into things, or to disincentivize the act of people from pooling their remnant/leftover in-game currency (there’s a term for the ‘problem’ you run into with in-game currency when you have, for e.g., 100 or even 15 gems lying around – it’s a good problem for the store to have, because you’ve got potential value there, but you need to give them more money to realize that potential – which keeps you coming back.) – crumbs? something clever and humorous like that…

Actually, there is no tax on Gem Cards, as they are treated as Gift Cards (which is nice). (No tax on Gift Cards as then tax would be collected twice; once at sale and again at redemption.)

Danikat.8537:

• If you’re able to meet up in real life they can log into their account and you can put your card details in to buy gems.

I’d strongly advice against doing this. It has, in other games, caused a nasty tangle of unclear ownership of the account. While the gem store offers the selection of saving cc info or not, I’d definitely double check with Customer Support if it’s ok.

Much better to buy a pre-paid card.