Guild Wars 2

All I do to earn anything in game is sit in front of a computer in a dimly lit room and tap my fingers along my keyboard and mouse. Nothing epic about that.

Ursan.7846:

This whole “ANet wants higher prices on things so people will buy more gems and convert into gold” theory is stupid.

The conversion rate from Dollars -> Gold is horrid. I think about $500 gets you around 700 Gold. Do you really expect a company to count on people buying optional cosmetics for $1000 (counting the cost of all the other mats).

Besides, if Anet wanted to you buy more gems with real gold, why include a Gold -> Gem exchange in the first place?

They don’t WANT you to buy more Gold through real money, but since MMOs always have a thriving black market Real-Money-Trade going on, better it be through the company and not some shady website. That’s the theory anyway.

Face it, people ARE willing to spend hundreds of actual real dollars for in-game currencies or items. Not everyone does, but . . . enough do that it’s an issue. See, what happens is it starts like this.

Someone sees something they really want on Black Lion, like a Precursor. But Dawn is 250 Gold (and yes, shut up, it was there at some point early on) and they don’t have it! Oh, but there’s these gold sellers . . . all you need is a measly $50 and you can have that 250 Gold from someone . . . so they do it. And then they buy Dawn, and get to work forging Sunrise.

Or maybe they don’t. Maybe they buy it and then re-list it for 20% more . . . but woe to the next player, where do they get that 300 Gold from . . . well there’s these people, all you need is $60 . . .

Steadily, the price climbs, not entirely because Dawn is rare . . . but because it is coveted, it is wanted, and people manipulate the price. And with every time someone pays more for it, the price goes up a little. Just a little . . .

whipplerama.3692:

Chickenshoes.6250:

ITT; people want the super-rare epic item to be far less rare and epic.

I sure hope that when I get a legendary not everybody is running around with it cuz Anet caved to the whiny.

What is rare and epic about buying something from the TP? Oh, and I see plenty of people running around with them, some people have at least 3. Not so legendary anymore.

LOL . . . “Legendary” has been downgraded to “Gangnam Style”.