Let us buy any amount of gems
Why would we want to be shoehorned into buying 800 gems when all we need is 150 gems.
Anet makes more money that way. It’s a business tactic.
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While it’s a sensible business tactic, it’s not a consumer-friendly one.
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While it’s a sensible business tactic, it’s not a consumer-friendly one.
It’s not, but a free to play game in of itself is. I’m not saying I disagree with the OP, but as you aren’t forced to buy gems, they have every right to have gem amounts set in stone.
Shawtell, Zen Verani, Rayshia Howen, Iyado, Colace Nzoir, Arteel Fyrien [Teef]
They do let you purchase any amount of gems you want.
It’s called Gold to Gems.
While it’s a sensible business tactic, it’s not a consumer-friendly one.
It’s not, but a free to play game in of itself is. I’m not saying I disagree with the OP, but as you aren’t forced to buy gems, they have every right to have gem amounts set in stone.
Er, yeah, obviously they have that right. It’s still not consumer-friendly. There’s a major difference between “consumer-friendly” and “unethical.”
Whether it’s better to offer gems in set-your-amount purchases or fixed blocks, from a business perspective, is a business question. But it’s hard to argue that from a consumer experience perspective, more buying options wouldn’t make a better experience. That’s all I’m saying. \o/
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If you need less than 800 buy it for gold,150 is like 12 gold :=)
While it’s a sensible business tactic, it’s not a consumer-friendly one.
It’s not, but a free to play game in of itself is. I’m not saying I disagree with the OP, but as you aren’t forced to buy gems, they have every right to have gem amounts set in stone.
Guild Wars 2 is not a free to play game. It is Buy To Play. There is a difference. $60 is not the same kitten
It’s all about real world transaction fees, they need to sell it in 10$ chunks so they can make 7$ If all you need is 150 gems, the profit from that sale is eaten by the credit card transaction fee.
I just wish that the gold→gem had a box that I could enter how many gems I wanted instead of how much gold I was willing to spend cause sometimes I only need 800 gems and since the price sometimes changes on a second by second basis, I still just need 800 gems. I don’t want to have to fiddle with gold, silver, copper just to get 800 gems.
While it’s a sensible business tactic, it’s not a consumer-friendly one.
It’s not, but a free to play game in of itself is. I’m not saying I disagree with the OP, but as you aren’t forced to buy gems, they have every right to have gem amounts set in stone.
Guild Wars 2 is not a free to play game. It is Buy To Play. There is a difference. $60 is not the same kitten
Fact of the matter is that you, and I can assume most others, knew what I meant, so I don’t see what this has to do with my post, I’m sorry.
Shawtell, Zen Verani, Rayshia Howen, Iyado, Colace Nzoir, Arteel Fyrien [Teef]
Two things. First, you have to believe you would never buy anything else every again from the gem store with the remaining gems. Second if you honestly believe you will never buy anything else from the gem store ever again you can convert the remainder to gold.
It’s not like Gems are going to go bad if unused. It’s not milk.
Also few MMOs that have a fiat currency sells in arbitrary, user settable amounts. Smallest I’ve found researching this was $5 Vs $10 in this game. And since the cost is flat it’s not like you are spending more real money per gem with a $10 order Vs kitten or $100 order.
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