Guild Wars 2

Do you think that expansion will bring lower gem prices ?
2k gems are now 287 gold. That is a nice price…
New players will buy gems,
Old players who return will not be able to exchange gold to gems because they didnt play the game so they dont have any gold..
So there will be more people that will buy gems and then lets say price for 2k gems will be 200 gold.
Do you think that is possible ?
I am thinking of buying 2k gems for 287 gold or not because expansion could bring lower price for gems

well the gem price will just continue to go up in my opinion. It doesn’t help though that all the sales are right now. So if you want something that is not on sale, just wait trough the sales and it should fall a little bit.

Gold->Gem price will always fluctuate, but it can never get out of control, because there are capped pools for each exchange. You’ll notice the price tends to spike whenever something new hits the Gem Store, typically when a new LS episode comes out, because more people are trading gold for gems, which increases the price in that direction, and decreases the price in the other direction. I expect that to happen on a larger scale when the expansion drops, but what will happen after that is hard to say.

Worth noting is that some returning players may want to increase their gold supply by purchasing gems and exchanging them. I doubt there will be enough of that happening to have a particularly noticeable effect on the market, but again, it’s hard to say, since there hasn’t been an expansion before. Whatever happens though, one thing you can be sure of is that it will balance itself out eventually.