Guild Wars 2

You spend all this money on keys, hell dam near $60 now, and all you get is this stuff with no use. What are we suppose to do with it? Why all the gambling? I might as well just flush $60 down the toilet at this point, I feel like a fool. Most of the other stuff you get from buying keys for Black Lion Chest are guild karma or something just completely useless. But the rest of this stuff has absolutely no use.
Like really what use is it?

If I wasn’t levelling a character and could use the boosters, I wouldn’t have bought any keys.

As it is, I bought 10 for 10 chests on my lvl 21 and… got a Fused token.

GuzziHero.2467:

If I wasn’t levelling a character and could use the boosters, I wouldn’t have bought any keys.

As it is, I bought 10 for 10 chests on my lvl 21 and… got a Fused token.

Even while leveling i find them extremely useless. I never used them, except to put them in the TP that one time.

I can see how boosters are useful, but what about the harvesting tools? Sickle, axe, and pick really dont give you much more than a regular orichalcum tool. What a scam.

MadCow.3502:

You spend all this money on keys, hell dam near $60 now, and all you get is this stuff with no use. What are we suppose to do with it? Why all the gambling? I might as well just flush $60 down the toilet at this point, I feel like a fool. Most of the other stuff you get from buying keys for Black Lion Chest are guild karma or something just completely useless. But the rest of this stuff has absolutely no use.
Like really what use is it?

Ah I see, you weren’t here doing Halloween. People opened hundreds of chests for the skins and didn’t get anything
Skins from BLC chests are a GOD mode of RNG. Many, many players learned their lesson at that time.

Actually I was here for holloween and I did spend roughly $50 as well and got nothing, in the end I had to purchase the holloween skin off the trade post for about 50Gold or so before all the prices sky-rocketed to the 200+gold. And I did forget all those extra picks an stuff that had no use, absolutely none. What is funny is anet decided to make the skins bound as to force people to either buy keys or don’t get one, so theres no way to get them off trade post. Then they push it into this ridiculous gamble. I am at the point where I feel like I wasted enough money to just quit.. Honestly. I just flushed $60 down the toilet, why not just put the dam skin in the gem store and charge the $60 already, or is it that you want players to waste the $100s that its not really worth.

Also at halloween you could use certain buffs to make Mad King Chests, which is what I ended up doing with all the buffs I wasn’t using. I’m saving them for the next time you can use them in the Mystic Forge…even if it’s next Halloween.

the people in charge of the gem store believe that they would earn more this way.
sad but true.

this will not make people happy.

Then it becomes a money game of gambling.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

the people in charge of the gem store believe that they would earn more this way.
sad but true.

this will not make people happy.

Seems to me like they already made about $60 from this guy…

MadCow.3502:

Then it becomes a money game of gambling.

Having the buyers remorse?

MadCow.3502:

Then it becomes a money game of gambling.

You just hit the jackpot, so-to-speak.

The amount of gambling that is seeping into this game is disturbing.

I wish they’d let me sell the boosters. Let me leverage the time the boosters would have saved me, with someone more clever and resourceful than I am.

My bank is filling up not only with my unused boosters, but with keys as well, since the only thing I can sell is the darn chests (which go for 1c above vendor price, as is the case for anything anyone can get on a regular basis).

IRL gambling is a long-term losing proposition. I would bet that the odds are the same in the game of GW2. You are simply better off saving your money and just buying the stuff you want directly, while bypassing the lottery tickets.

At least at a casino you can have fun playing the game (if you are into that), so you can justify the cost as a “night out”. There is no similar aspect of clicking on a bunch of keys in under 2 seconds.

My advice is to skip the lotteries and then you will have less junk, more cash in your pocket (to buy the stuff you want) and feel less shafted at the same time.

I am starting to feel the same way, I see no reason to purchase gems. Not worth it, I actually looked at my bank account and realized that even though I thought I spent roughly $60 the exact figures were closer to $90… I find that highly unreasonable for 1 skin, and I am extremely ashamed of myself for buying into it. I feel like that guy that salvaged his Legendary on youtube then quit the game. Honestly, he probably was on the right path.