Guild Wars 2

It needs to go away. I’m not sure when developers decided this convoluted, double transaction system was a good idea but there’s too many games doing it nowadays. What would you do if you walked into a department store, picked up a pair of jeans then walked over to pay for them. But when you did they told you ‘Oh no you have to buy our JCBucks to purchase items. Go on over to the JCBuck line and buy them in bulk then come back!’

You wouldn’t buy anything. I know I wouldn’t buy anything, and I won’t in GW2. Why? Because it complicates a simple system like a monetary transaction. What’s worse is that Guild Wars (1) just lets you buy things from their story with real life monies. You know, the way micro-transactions are supposed to be.

On top of ridding yourselves of convolution you’ll find that people are more willing to spend money in those small increments than in larger quantities that the current system requires of you. Why? Because people feel better about multiple small number purchases than a few large ones. Personally, I know I’d be far more inclined to make more of these micro purchases than blowing fifty dollars on gems that don’t even equate to the same amount of money you’d be spending.

While we’re on the topic, it’s not clever of you to make the gem versus dollars amounts of the items uneven so that people are left with unusable gems. It’s stupid and you’re insulting your consumers.

Just do yourselves a favor and change it.

EVE online has a similar system in place and it’s worked great for almost a decade.

It’s a compromise that works for me, because you can earn gems in-game via gold, and in pvp. Gems is a proxy that lets you acquire those BL items from either direction.

You can buy exactly how many ever gems you want. You just have to keep adjusting the amount of gold until it rounds to the number you’re looking for.

I’m not sure why they don’t have smaller units than 800 gems (or is it 400?) for sale in the cash shop.

the reason for the gem system is to make it possible to get the same items with ingame gold. either you would need 2 independant delivery systems selling the same items, or one system using a common purchase mechanism.

it doesnt convolute the system as you imply…it in fact simplifies it.

mulch.2586:

It’s a compromise that works for me, because you can earn gems in-game via gold, and in pvp. Gems is a proxy that lets you acquire those BL items from either direction.

You can buy exactly how many ever gems you want. You just have to keep adjusting the amount of gold until it rounds to the number you’re looking for.

I’m not sure why they don’t have smaller units than 800 gems (or is it 400?) for sale in the cash shop.

They don’t have smaller units because logically they want you to buy more gems. That is why some of the items in the cash shop are priced in such a way that once you spend your gems in the cash shop, you pretty much have to buy another 800 games or use gold to get more.

Strategic pricing.

Also if you wan to buy via gold the overpriced of the gems now is very insane now if like almost 1 gold for nothing.

You have 2 ways grind like a no lifer or buy some gems cards.