Guild Wars 2

Yes, I have my flameproof armor on.

As we are aware, Anet is planning on removing a couple of gold sinks. Admittedly, they aren’t a big sink, but they still remove a good sum from the economy as they are now. In fact, armor repair is the only service that removed gold and required almost every player to use.

Here’s my problem: Although removing some gold sinks is making some people happy, how is it affecting the game?

I know there are massive sinks with crafting and building legendaries, but in general, what about the non-crafters and those who don’t care to get legendaries? Except for transportation (waypoints) armor repair and buying fluff such as dyes there just aren’t that many. I am worried that the increase in gold (however small) in the economy will make inflation even worse.

Maybe someone more versed in economics can shed some light.

In any case, thanks for listening…I just wanted to get this off my mind.

well we don’t have data. How significant was the gold sink from repair fees? since the amount was static ever since the game was released, maybe anet decided it was obsolete and thus should be removed.

Is the gold sinking at a healthy rate, healthy enough for anet to actually remove sinks? prices have been inflating, and while the gold acquisition outside of speculation is relatively balanced, once again, I’m missing data to know whether it was a good decision or not to remove repair fees.

I’m pretty sure the gold income from champion bags is a lot higher than the sink from repairing/retraiting, otherwise they wouldn’t have done this change

The big gold sink is the 15% tax on TP sales, what is more if gold sinks aren’t enough prices go up and the TP tax grows, eventually balancing creation / destruction of gold again.
That’s why those silly “sinks” of repairs and respec fees are absolutely unnecessary and are being removed. I might have spent 2-4g in respecs, meanwhile I probably lost 100s of gold to TP tax.

They are reducing gold from champ bags and removing it from repair. They are also expecting you to invest gold in gem store.

Gem store is a good gold sink.