Guild Wars 2

Can you go ahead and activate the Gem Shop “Retribution Items” coming on April 30th?

I don’t see any harm in early activation on skins and would like to see if I should stock up on gems to get them before the prices spike.

Thanks.

Your idea is flawed as the moment the new items arrive the prices will spike…

Get stuff in the middle of next week when it’s the lowest.

@ Atherakhia.4086

Problem is, what if the skins that come out, aren’t really all that good? I could use that gold for something else.

So basically its a gamble either way since this announcement and won’t reveal everything.

So its really up to Arenanet, allow early skin access to get some profit over the course of 7 days or release them on April 30th and see how the communities’ reaction over it and gamble a positive or negative response after the inflation of gem prices.

They will never do this for the exact reason you stated. They want you to buy gems with real money not gold. When the exchange rate gets high enough that it does not make sense to buy gems with gold more people will but gems with real money which = more Anet profits.

@ Ruprect.7260

Yes, that may be true however Gold Inflation is getting out of control in GW2 to the point as you said, would make more sense to buy gems than gold conversion for Gemshop items.

However with such a few handful of people poisoning the Gem Price Marketing by forcing free to play players to the point that farming gold on the B2P game is becoming obsolete. No player would enjoy farming hundreds of gold for thousands of hours just to get a gem shop item that remains a secret until its reveal on said day.

With that said, at the current rate of converting gold to gems, increases 50-75 silver every 3-4 weeks. Soon 100 gems will cost 75-150 gold in 8 months or so.

Since those few people are saving all their mass gold and earning mass gold with the Legendaries, I would expect the market to go out of wack by the end of this year.

However, I figure I would at least ask if they would make a consideration.

Shadowlancer, perhaps you should post this in the Black Lion Trading Co forum instead. There you should get some great responses and the main economist for Guild Wars 2 may even chime in as he sometimes does in discussions there.

If you are interested in the health of Guild Wars 2’s economy or even the gold to gem exchange then that is a great place to get information.

Shadowlancer.7102:

@ Ruprect.7260

Yes, that may be true however Gold Inflation is getting out of control in GW2 to the point as you said, would make more sense to buy gems than gold conversion for Gemshop items.

However with such a few handful of people poisoning the Gem Price Marketing by forcing free to play players to the point that farming gold on the B2P game is becoming obsolete. No player would enjoy farming hundreds of gold for thousands of hours just to get a gem shop item that remains a secret until its reveal on said day.

With that said, at the current rate of converting gold to gems, increases 50-75 silver every 3-4 weeks. Soon 100 gems will cost 75-150 gold in 8 months or so.

Since those few people are saving all their mass gold and earning mass gold with the Legendaries, I would expect the market to go out of wack by the end of this year.

However, I figure I would at least ask if they would make a consideration.

Why would they want it any other way. The less people buying gems with gold the more that are buying them with real money. They will keep letting it inflate until no one buys gems anymore and then they will make a market adjustment. I would imagine they would like to keep it right on that edge to get the most profit possible.

When they release new items I would imagine it is by far the most profitable in the first week or so, why would they take that away from themselves by ruining the surprise.

@ whiran.1473

Actually no, I am not heavily into Guild Wars 2 to point that I would try to make a Job out of it, trying to make gold to convert to gems and since I really don’t buy anything from the Gem Shop, except for like 2 items during the Halloween event or free items that were offered.

I really have no faint or understanding of the “Health” of the marketing because I am a causal player and all I see every time I check back month by month is a steady increase in gold conversion to gems.

I am not that active enough in Guild Wars 2 to be even remotely interested in farming gold for a casual MMO that was meant for casuals but hard core players and marketing manipulation players, are effecting the game.

That’s why I posted in general because I figure I asked a simple question “Hey can you throw the skins out now?”

I didn’t mean to go way off topic.

Edit: Just to throw it out there, unless Arenanet makes “mind blowing” items from the Gem Shop that would make me consider of spending real money, there’s no point in spending real money.

Been playing video games and MMOs for over 20 years, I’ve seen it all and alot of times, there are just no items that are compelling enough to spend real money on.

I happy I bought the game but other than that the Gemshop doesn’t have anything cool to buy and I no longer bother with the Legendary Weapons anymore because its just a grind that’s just unnecessary and since alot of people have already showed off and video recorded Legendaries, their value of uniqueness or worth is about the same value of dirt.

I wouldn’t even bother with Legendaries even if it was handed to me, I would just simply disenchant it.