Guild Wars 2

It doesn’t matter if you guy the item with gold.

Arenanet ges the same exact amount of money either way.

Those itmes you bought with gold had to first be bought with gems, which were bought with money. Those gems you bought with gold had to first be bought with real money.

That’s why the gems/gold exchange rate fluctuates. It is adjusted based upon a fixed pool of gold and gems. Those gems don’t exist in the market untik they’ve already been paid for.

When gold>gem prices go up, it’s because more people are trading for gems than buying them. When they go down its because more people are selling the gems than there are buying them with gold.

^I think you mean: “When gold>gem prices go up, it’s because more people are trading for gems than buying them and exchanging them for gold”.

Just buying Gems and using them in the Gem Store does not affect the Gold/Gem exchange rate at all.