Guild Wars 2

so i was moderately enthusiastic this morning about maybe getting something new in my home instance.. and with the treasure hunter achievement {collection} you can have an “enchanted treasures chest”

so let’s just take a quick look at a sampling of all the wonderful fun i decidedly will not be involving myself in anytime soon, if ever.. i am just far too faint-hearted in the face of all this fun of being scalped and price gouged by fellow treasure hunters

so good luck all you tyrian adventurers! i tip my hat to the wondrous endeavor ahead

Then the solution is to do as the devs intended, AND GET THE kitten THINGS YOURSELF.

Sorry, I don’t know what came over me. Achievements are meaningless if they can’t be bought, and bought for less than 7g, no less. Carry on.

Sariel V.7024:

Then the solution is to do as the devs intended, AND GET THE kitten THINGS YOURSELF.

So the rich people get to have an advantage.. ok.
All the more reason items like this should be soulbound.

I doubt anyone is going to get the achievement by any other way than buying, actually.

Because you see, I’d like to have the chest, but if I happen to find one of the items and it sells for 800g on the tp, there’s no way I’m not gonna sell it.

So at the end it’s reasonable to assume that the chest will be owned only by the very rich, because an average player can’t pass up the chance to sell a single item for hundreds of gold.

Just a thought.

Sariel V.7024:

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so you think a 5000% increase on quest item price is normal? obviously if arena net wanted people to do the content entirely on their own they would not have placed tradable items in the collection.. if you bothered to look at the opening post, its image depicts not just price gouging but also poor availability on certain items.. which is a tell of rarity.. do they expect us to do certain events xxxxxxx times? until it becomes a complete joke? what is arena net trying to do, exactly? issue 5 golden tickets to the chocolate factory? {and yes, veruca salt is going}    the aforementioned collection is a shamble

This happens since forever.
I asked many times about it in TP section and the answers i received bu the fev itself would be infracted if posted by myself in another area, but in short he believes he is doing an awesome job and his economy is fantastic and we can t understand because we are not economists.

Even when i tried to say many players have a perception economy is wrong he answered my perception is wrong.

Until he will have a huge number of players going into TP section and outnumbering TP players there asking to preserve their privileges, things will only get worse.

We are going towards a diablo 3 economy, slowly but steadily.

fact:
I came here with 10 friends.
They all went away due to economy/unnecessary grind for any shiny, manipulated by few.