Guild Wars 2

So… first I’ll start by saying thank you for:

• Finally letting us kill that psychopath who shall not be named. You’ve been teasing us like mad for over a year. Putting your player base through more than a year of a tease is a horrible thing to do.

• Not playing the insanity card with that psychopath who shall not be named (that thing deserves nothing but OBLIVION) and having her suddenly switch sides and become an ally. I would have most likely quit playing the game if that were to happen.

• FINALLY doing something that is at least seemingly related to the dragons… even though it’s not much to go off of. For over a year we have done absolutely NOTHING that had anything to do with the dragons. I will say that the conclusion so far is more of a conveniently set up “This was the plan all along” scenario, because that was way too much of a set up for a simple cinematic that had a mouth. So for now it’s a toss up. The next chapter better be 99% focused on an elder dragon, ANY elder dragon. I don’t care.

• At least partially listening to your customers and bringing another set of GW1 weapons to the game.

Before you read any further, please understand I don’t hate ArenaNet. I want them to do well, but here’s where the politeness stops. It’s now time for some tough love

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How dare you milk your customers and loyal GW1 fanbase by once again hiding those weapons behind Black Lion Chest RNG? Many of us have repeatedly asked that you not do that. Give us the weapons outright for a set price of gems. As I’ve said numerous times before: I understand that ArenaNet is in the business of making a profit, not necessarily by pleasing their customers, but by using whatever business strategy works to bring in the dough. Your Black Lion Keys are that strategy. I get it: you have mouths to feed and bills to pay, but don’t milk your customers like this. FIXED GEM PRICE FOR WEAPONS LIKE YOU DID FOR THE ARMORS! You will STILL make a nice profit. Look at the numbers for the Zodiac armor. I am more than sure you made a very nice profit off of that… and the next paragraph explains why.

You purposely designed the algorithm/formula for the exchange rate of gems and gold so that, eventually, it will be completely inefficient and non-economical to use in-game gold to buy gems, forcing your customers to pay real money to get something they really want (I know because I and many others helped you test it). You didn’t hire an economist to design your in-game economy for ‘dynamic’ purposes, you hired that economist to design the economy for profit. I know the stuff is entirely optional and not necessary, but DONT MILK YOUR CUSTOMERS LIKE THIS. You’ve done this more than once, and it needs to stop.

You effectively charge your casual player base (the ones that don’t have time to farm hundreds or thousands of gold to buy thousands of gems to buy a few keys to have a sliver of a chance to get a weapon ticket scrap that that you need at least 10 of to actually get a weapon) way more than a $15 monthly subscription fee because they have almost no choice but to spend real money to buy gems to get those “LIMITED TIME ONLY BUY THEM NOW OMG THEY WILL BE GONE FOREVER!” deals. It’s not just RNG, it’s EXPONENTIAL RNG that increases significantly after a short period of time, and it’s just wrong.

I opened 50 BL chests and got less than 5 ticket scraps and no actual claim ticket. That was 4200 gems, or more than $50. At that rate I would need to spend several hundred dollars to get enough scraps to get ONE claim ticket. I have 2 claim tickets, but I got those over the course of many months. By the time I have enough for a weapon, the cost of the weapon I want will have increased 5 fold. EXTORTION! A weapon skin should not cost more than $5 in real money, especially if it is a one time use item. The pay-2-win games offer more for our hard earned money than this.

Look, I’m not asking that you make rare drops more common. I’m telling you to stop milking your customers for cash they way you have been. Times are tough for all of us. Games like this are supposed to be an escape, not a financial trick to get rich.

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Read the next sentence repeatedly and out loud until you get it:

A set price of gems to directly buy the weapon skins we want without Black Lion Chest RNG (like you did with the armor skins and various other services) is more than sufficient to make profit without treating your customers as if they bleed money.

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This exponential RNG needs to stop. The death of that psychopath who shall not be named can only do so much to keep us playing.

Why did you open 50 BLC if you wanted the weapon skins ? Why not simply buy them on the TP for 100g (was the price yesterday, and I’m sure it’s going to go down like every BLC skin) by selling the gems ?

Not playing the insanity card with that psychopath who shall not be named (that thing deserves nothing but OBLIVION) and having her suddenly switch sides and become an ally. I would have most likely quit playing the game if that were to happen.

They did worse. They played the “we don’t care for her motives and you’ll just going to have to guess” card. That’s kind of like playing the insanity card.

To prove a point.

Why did you need to do something like that ? That point has already been proven countless of times : unless you want an infinite hairstylist or you stumbled upon a black lion key, it’s generally a bad investment to use gems to buy keys to open chests for a chance at something that can be bought on the TP.

And the drop table for those chests is appalling :
-an essence of luck : woot ! How nice to use a key to get something I could have gotten by salvaging a few blues
-a scroll of knowledge : how nice, not like most players have dozen of those around
-a tome of knowledge : yeah real useful considering how Anet seems to make us remember with each updates that rewards/timer work per account and not per character (and I have all 8 professions, with 7 at max level in exotic/ascended (not full ascended since once again, a lot all of time gates are per account)).
-300 guild influence…that’s 60 silver
-a dye or 2 ! so 40-50 silver
-the mystery tonics, which thankfully now aren’t a guaranteed drop

And I’m not going to mention the rest that I do personally find useless (such as most boosters) because that chest is the only source for those items (even if once again, some are pretty terrible).

So you have to go through all of that crap to maybe get what you desire from those chests. Yes I’m “happy” (I guess) that some people do open them so I can buy the weapons skins I want on the TP (which to this day amounts to 3), but I’d be happier if those chests weren’t basically preying on people’s stupid addiction for gambling for shinies and rewarding them with something even a Skritt wouldn’t want. Or if you could buy directly what you want on the gem store.

But it won’t happen because if they do so, they can’t overpriced them too much. 600 gems, the cost of Kasmeer’s Staff is roughly 6 BLK. As anyone can testify, every 6 BLK you aren’t even getting a ticket claim.

So stop trying to prove a point. That point has already been proven. Just save your cash and buy them on the TP. And with rising gems to gold prices, it will even be better to do so.

So I should reward other players for their ‘luck’ with my in-game gold? Forget that.

RedStar.4218:

They did worse. They played the “we don’t care for her motives and you’ll just going to have to guess” card. That’s kind of like playing the insanity card.

Let’s be fair – most of the players posting here or elsewhere didn’t care either they just wanted her dead and gone.

Mission freaking accomplished.

True… I just wanted her dead because she was so unworthy to be called a real villain. Lion’s Arch deserved a better villain. Regardless, I prefer this option over the insanity card.

Zera Allimatti.2541:

True… I just wanted her dead because she was so unworthy to be called a real villain. Lion’s Arch deserved a better villain. Regardless, I prefer this option over the insanity card.

I wanted her dead so people would stop complaining about how awful she was. She was introduced with some missteps and I really think they were better about handling her after the break for Halloween.

But that start . . .

In my opinion, the Guild Wars 2 gemstore is totally fine and is not even remotly close to pay to win or greedy money ripping. People who haven’t spent a single dime have all the rare skins and gears and people who haven’t played enough can still have them

If you don’t want to play alot and neither pay money and you want the items to still be easily available for you then we are going again into the ‘’I don’t feel rewarded’’ concept.

Also, I lost interest in your argument when you said that Pay to win games shops are better than this one. It is about opinions though I guess, you can enjoy the free games out there.

Ok, ok, ok, ok I just have to say it – SCARLETT there we go now that we have that out of our system (well mine at least anyways ) I just have to say that Redstar seems to be agreeing in some kind of way that the chests/key system is bad. So really, I don’t know why he/she is arguing against you. Why not just agree to agree the system is bad and needs to go? O.O