(this post contains whining, you have been warned)
I have been playing GW2 since launch and I enjoy it very much, however over time I have noticed that some of the reward systems on launch, and even now with Flame and Frost, show a serious addiction to rewards obtained by chance and NOT by concentrated effort.
First there is Badges of Honor, the reward system in WvW, looted POSSIBLY from a SMALL BAG (which also drops POSSIBLY) from killing players, acknowledging that much of WvW is either travelling large distances or engaging in massive scale battles where dodging and keeping mobile is essential. The best way to get them is not to participate in WvW at all, but to farm badges from the jumping puzzles, thus defeating the entire purpose of going onto WvW, and turning WvW into a repetitive mix of dying constantly or walking around constantly (tho that is probably just me sucking at PvP :P) and possibly not getting anything for it.
Then now, in the Razing update for Flame and Frost, the new weapon skins (Fused) released are awesome, so I have been spending my Easter Holidays farming keys in the hopes of getting a ticket for each of my weapons, I have opened nearly 100 chests and gotten 1 ticket, aka hours (sometimes 5 at a time) of farming keys and I got one ticket, and according to the posts on other forums i’ve read I should be grateful even for that. Like the badges I can’t get the tickets for even participating in the new content, I get them by either spending in the TP or farming keys at 1 per 30 minutes.
This is just what I’VE experienced, i’m sure there are other rewards in-game which rely on luck to obtain, which we may not get even after hours of work.
It’s not all bad news; I find the 1/3 chance of mystic clovers very reasonable; it’s chance, but the chance is high enough that you do see results enough times to keep motivated, plus this is for a component of LEGENDARY WEAPONS, which are supposed to be the highest weapons in-game, surely this probability (or even higher) is reasonable for simple tokens and skins for weapons.
The whole thing is like a boss in a job saying “work whatever hours as you want, but we’ll pay u whenever we want” even if you only worked one hour a week, you’d still expect to be paid for that one hour because you still put your time into it. I believe it should be the same for rewards in GW2.
I understand that GW2s lack of endgame hurts its replayability compared to other MMOs, so you have updates and grinding to give the players something to do, but I believe rewards by chance can only go so far. As a gamer I don’t mind grinding, I don’t mind difficult challenge, I don’t mind needing to work for ages to get something (at the end of the day that’s what extends the life of any game in any genre), I don’t even mind paying real money for something as simple as a weapon skin, but I DO mind putting hours of my time into something I might not be rewarded for, especially my FREE time.
Does anyone else feel this way? do you want the chance factor exchanged for more rewards with high needs that you’re certain to obtain after ages of work (like the Mystic Forge items and dungeon weps)? Do you want the chance to be improved for more minor items like weapon skins, which give no real edge or Achievements in-game besides looking nice? Do you want me to get over myself and stop trying to be smart? Or do you have something you’d like to add or suggest?
Responses would be appreciated
a gambling problem
Everyone will complain about RNG, but nobody will have
Lost 700G to the mystic forge in under ten minutes like I have…
Yall don’t know real pain
Do not click this link!
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Zaphiel Faires – DPS Guardian
Delayed content is eventually good. Rushed content is eternally bad. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto
Everyone will complain about RNG, but nobody will have
Lost 700G to the mystic forge in under ten minutes like I have…
Yall don’t know real pain
Sorry but blowing 700g in MF seems just stupid, why didnt you buy precursor from TP? (i assume you wanted precursor)
(this post contains whining, you have been warned)
I have been playing GW2 since launch and I enjoy it very much, however over time I have noticed that some of the reward systems on launch, and even now with Flame and Frost, show a serious addiction to rewards obtained by chance and NOT by concentrated effort.
First there is Badges of Honor, the reward system in WvW, looted POSSIBLY from a SMALL BAG (which also drops POSSIBLY) from killing players, acknowledging that much of WvW is either travelling large distances or engaging in massive scale battles where dodging and keeping mobile is essential. The best way to get them is not to participate in WvW at all, but to farm badges from the jumping puzzles, thus defeating the entire purpose of going onto WvW, and turning WvW into a repetitive mix of dying constantly or walking around constantly (tho that is probably just me sucking at PvP :P) and possibly not getting anything for it.
Then now, in the Razing update for Flame and Frost, the new weapon skins (Fused) released are awesome, so I have been spending my Easter Holidays farming keys in the hopes of getting a ticket for each of my weapons, I have opened nearly 100 chests and gotten 1 ticket, aka hours (sometimes 5 at a time) of farming keys and I got one ticket, and according to the posts on other forums i’ve read I should be grateful even for that. Like the badges I can’t get the tickets for even participating in the new content, I get them by either spending in the TP or farming keys at 1 per 30 minutes.
This is just what I’VE experienced, i’m sure there are other rewards in-game which rely on luck to obtain, which we may not get even after hours of work.
It’s not all bad news; I find the 1/3 chance of mystic clovers very reasonable; it’s chance, but the chance is high enough that you do see results enough times to keep motivated, plus this is for a component of LEGENDARY WEAPONS, which are supposed to be the highest weapons in-game, surely this probability (or even higher) is reasonable for simple tokens and skins for weapons.
The whole thing is like a boss in a job saying “work whatever hours as you want, but we’ll pay u whenever we want” even if you only worked one hour a week, you’d still expect to be paid for that one hour because you still put your time into it. I believe it should be the same for rewards in GW2.
I understand that GW2s lack of endgame hurts its replayability compared to other MMOs, so you have updates and grinding to give the players something to do, but I believe rewards by chance can only go so far. As a gamer I don’t mind grinding, I don’t mind difficult challenge, I don’t mind needing to work for ages to get something (at the end of the day that’s what extends the life of any game in any genre), I don’t even mind paying real money for something as simple as a weapon skin, but I DO mind putting hours of my time into something I might not be rewarded for, especially my FREE time.
Does anyone else feel this way? do you want the chance factor exchanged for more rewards with high needs that you’re certain to obtain after ages of work (like the Mystic Forge items and dungeon weps)? Do you want the chance to be improved for more minor items like weapon skins, which give no real edge or Achievements in-game besides looking nice? Do you want me to get over myself and stop trying to be smart? Or do you have something you’d like to add or suggest?
Responses would be appreciated
A friend of mine, who opened 10 chests, received 2 tickets plus an abyss dye.
./nod
Regarding the mystic clover, it is an average of 33% instead of exactly at 33%. In another word, with crappy lucky like I have, it was a little less than 10% instead of 33%.
./cry