What exactly do you HAVE TO pay for to progress in GW2. Im curious, i have 11 80-ies and i didnt have to pay for anything? Elaborate on that, maybe i missed something progressing 11 characters to max level to completely progress without being forced to pay for anything.
And, just for record, nobody called GW2 F2P game, dont know where you got that.
AND i got much more of everything that i got for FREE in GW2 after the initial purchase than i got from all that wasted sub money since i strted playing MMOs in 2002. So yeah, theres that also.
But i agree, for instance, SWTOR has abbysmal F2P model thats based on just gambling boxes (its just a matter of time until taxman look into that) and recolored stuff AND buying freaking pieces of UI lol
let me clarify so that everyone can keep up in the class. If you have one of those PermaDR accounts and or the so called unlucky accounts, you cannot earn which means you can go do anything in the game and the drops just do not flow. So that means you don’t earn gold. Add to that the fact that they nickle and dime you while leveling (5 silver when you complete a map) but expect gold for things like traits to catchup with your buddies and there you are. Gold shouldn’t be tied to progression at all. It’s fine for racial armors (although I disagree with that practice too but for other reasons) but for sigils/runes and specific new types of armors of which are not on karma vendors, and trait costs those are progression systems.
They put karma into the game for a reason, I’m simply reminding them that they should make karma the system to use for progression not gold.
They can charge all they want for cosmetics I don’t mind that, they can make people pay for hearthstones I don’t mind that too much but progression on an unlucky account is what I’m specifically talking about.
And the reason you’re confused probably means that you don’t have one of those. Thousands have reported having those types of accounts and most likely left the game a while back because of the ongoing problems with the economy and how this game is designed under the hood. And let me tell you another thing for those doubters out there. It happens. When you see those same guild buddies with the same magic find as you doing the same events week in and week out ending up with everything and the kitchen sink and you get nothing month after month after month, there’s a problem, and it’s not simply a matter of RNG.
Does that clear it up now? Oh btw, in order for a toxically RNG system to seem “meaningful” to the elite, it has to make almost everyone not get drops at all.
Anyway, people didn’t just start leaving the game because something they didn’t like in their imagination, they started leaving because things like this. The game isn’t rewarding and even the devs recognized it 7 months ago promising a rewards revamp. Even with the changes to the system for personal story, what happens to make people leave occurs after reaching level 80. When all you get are the mandatory rares/exotics (1 at a time mind you) from boss events, there’s a serious issue with your rewards system.
Even WoW’s open world event system on their island is more rewarding at this point.
If they want people back they’ll have to add the carrot on a stick beyond the skins thing otherwise people will continue to leave and stay gone and a couple of years down the road they will be known as “Remember that game that had unlucky accounts that no matter what you did nothing would drop, and people on the forums actually defended that like it was okay or something! yeah that one!”
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