Outstanding Content = Frequent Gem Purchases
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Taltevus.3289
Let me start by saying thanks for having a look at the thread and yes it’s whopper.
Skip to the bottom for my personal questions if you must.
I am not outright against the Gemstore (without reason) I actually have quite a few purchases from the Gemstore. However, here’s the…thing as the title suggest.
Bottom line is. If I am not satisfied past a certain point I am not inclined to make purchases.
This seems like the normal thing people do. If you value your money but not the product you don’t buy it twice.
If you don’t like a phone you aren’t going to buy it a second time when your contract renews or if your phone breaks.
When you have bad service at a restaurant (not why you pay the server but why you pay the outrageous prices on the food) you’re not likely to spend your money there again.
When you buy a brand that does not perform to your what? Satisfaction…you return it or…cut your losses and the brand from your shopping list in the future.
Why wouldn’t/doesn’t this apply for GuildWars 2’s GemStore?
I was:
1.) More excited during the countdown of heart of thorns than I am now playing the game.
2.)I bought tons more stuff during that period than I ever will in the future (as the game stands now)
Why, because I value my money and the things I spend it on.
What I truly don’t understand is why ArenaNet made the decision to cause mayhem and dissatisfaction among their primarily customers secondarily players and expect… those people to continue to hand them money?
During all the PR for Heart of Thons when I saw the first elite spec. Chronomancer, and some other things I felt comfortable buying things in the Gemstore freely. It was at that point I wanted to support ArenaNet in what it was doing. I wanted GuildWars 2 to be my MMO. I wanted to feel the way people who play wow feel towards it but, towards Gw2.
A lot of my friends played MMO’s but I didn’t have one. Gw2 was actually suggested to me across a mutual friend on facebook.
So after seeing H.o.T and some of the in game stuff I was sure this is going to be The One. The expansion was kind of my sense of proof and then the shopping spree commenced, including preordering.
H.o.T is released
Lo’ and behold: (yeah laugh it up)
Rewards were taken away from the base game.
The entire system for H.o.T masteries was a disaster. period.
-including Hero Points
-including Elite Specializations
Problems in the pvp part of the game became even worse
Players were coerced into new content
Players were alienated from one another in more ways than they were brought together.
etc. etc.
(this is not including the previous issues with Gw2 before H.o.T)
Do I like Gw2. Yes.
Do I want Gw2 to be successful? Yes.
Then why am I not buying items for the Gemstore?
Because unlike the assumption that ArenaNet has made that people who are playing for free will become so magically enamored with GW2 they’ll buy the expansion (or game now); Currently, I feel GW2 is in no standing of being so awesome that I want to buy anything else from or for it (or ArenaNet). Currently it seems there are more things counting against the game than there are for it. More importantly I do not trust ArenaNet to make game benefiting decisions. The ship can go down…just not with my money.
There are many aspects of an MMO and the only thing currently that GW2 has for it is combat. I’m not sorry but, combat alone does not an MMO make. Nor does it make enough to warrant me spending hard earned money on a regular basis for it.
When the content is produced, and when it is outstanding, and I am satisfied…I’ll buy. It’s that simple. I have nor had qualms purchasing things when I believed #GW2itgetsbetter.
Yeah, ArenaNet needs to make money and they will no doubt but they would make more if they just did the right thing.
Questions
Do you follow the same model? Yes? No? Why or Why Not?
Why do you buy things from the Gemstore if you do?
Do you pledge allegiance to GW2 and make purchases regardless of the direction of the game? Do you think that’s reasonable or unreasonable?
(off topic)
Do you think lack of funds could cause the kind of problems GW2 experiences regularly?
Do you think more funds could fix that or…is it something else that is the cause of some of these issues?