Guild Wars 2

Didn’t it cost around 90-100g to buy 800 gems just a week or so ago? What happened?

Yeah, bro. Yesterday 100 gems cost about 14 G. Now it is 21 G, and still rising. Guess it’s because people want to try the new gem exchange and that’s what drives the price up.

Lebensbaum.9216:

Yeah, bro. Yesterday 100 gems cost about 14 G. Now it is 21 G, and still rising. Guess it’s because people want to try the new gem exchange and that’s what drives the price up.

Well that’s depressing =( guess my Noble Count outfit will have to wait~

That’s plain robbery seriously…

There’s always a spike in the gems/gold conversion when they add new items to the gem store. Always. Players cash in their excess gold to get the new items. This isn’t the biggest one, not by a long shot:

http://www.gw2spidy.com/gem

Biggest spike was over the 10 day 2014 anniversary sale when they offered these items:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gem_...niversary_Sale

Things they added today that would have spiked the conversion are the Noble Count outfit (the vampire/mesmer attire which was looked forward to by many), Phantom’s Hood, Devil Horns and most likely the Foil Wrapped Candy.

Wait? I just wrote it off entirely in being disgusted with the marketing money grab.

The prices have been fluctuating roughly between 80 gems/10 gold and 60 gems/10 gold during the last several weeks, sometimes even going below 60 gems a month or two ago when desireable gem store updates came along (I think I saw it go down to 54 gems/10 gold at the time the katana gs skin was released).

The prices in your screenshot seem to indicate that it’s gone down to around 48/10 gold at the moment, which is a bit less, but considering the new gem store content and the fact that the new interface “forces” many players to buy more gems at once than they would’ve done with the old system, I guess it’s still possible to be a natural reaction. I’ve seen smaller gem store releases push the exchange rate by 33%, which is almost exactly the change from last weekend (around 64 gems/10 gold) to today.

Summary: No, it was considerably more expensive to buy 800 gems during the last couple of weeks, but yes, there has been a rise in gold cost for gems over the last couple of days (although within normal limits of what’s happened before).

Karizee.8076:

There’s always a spike in the gems/gold conversion when they add new items to the gem store. Always. Players cash in their excess gold to get the new items. This isn’t the biggest one, not by a long shot:

http://www.gw2spidy.com/gem

Biggest spike was over the 10 day 2014 anniversary sale when they offered these items:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gem_...niversary_Sale

Things they added today that would have spiked the conversion are the Noble Count outfit (the vampire/mesmer attire which was looked forward to by many), Phantom’s Hood, Devil Horns and most likely the Foil Wrapped Candy.

That gw2spidy link is invalid. The API call for gem prices was mysteriously disabled as soon as the patch hit, so that graph shows gem prices up until immediately before the patch, when they suddenly became very expensive.

Tulki.1458:

Karizee.8076:

There’s always a spike in the gems/gold conversion when they add new items to the gem store. Always. Players cash in their excess gold to get the new items. This isn’t the biggest one, not by a long shot:

http://www.gw2spidy.com/gem

Biggest spike was over the 10 day 2014 anniversary sale when they offered these items:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gem_...niversary_Sale

Things they added today that would have spiked the conversion are the Noble Count outfit (the vampire/mesmer attire which was looked forward to by many), Phantom’s Hood, Devil Horns and most likely the Foil Wrapped Candy.

That gw2spidy link is invalid. The API call for gem prices was mysteriously disabled as soon as the patch hit, so that graph shows gem prices up until immediately before the patch, when they suddenly became very expensive.

Yes and what’s more disturbing is we no longer see the Anet graph showing what the actual activity is to decide when we do our own trades. It’s like bidding on things in the stock market blindly.

Tulki.1458:

That gw2spidy link is invalid. The API call for gem prices was mysteriously disabled as soon as the patch hit, so that graph shows gem prices up until immediately before the patch, when they suddenly became very expensive.

The API still wirks :
https://www.gw2tp.com/gems

The price jump however is really strange.

Players were confused and terrified by low conversion rates – sorry, had to be done.

Are there new additions to the store? Cause that usually brings people to convert in large quantities which affects rates.