Guild Wars 2

You have been warned. Prepare for much kitten on the forums, for the RNG boxes are on the horizon….I dont like it completely either, but I dont know that it will change…

It won’t change until people stop buying them completely, or just boycott the gem store until Arenanet stops with the foolishness.

Why they would want to emulate one of the most game-detrimental, short term revenue boosting, long term revenue destroying ploys in the MMO cash shop milieu is difficult to fathom.

The boxes are very unfair by design and research has shown that “lack of fairness” is the most destructive trait for a company/brand to acquire and the most difficult and expensive to overcome.

“RNG” and : D smiley face should never be in the same line…

What is your source that “RNG” boxes are on the horizon?

Check reddit, people datamine and post the results there. It’s a minipet and “Jade something weapons”. Or something.

Really sad that Anet keep doing this.

KodChim.5670:

Check reddit, people datamine and post the results there. It’s a minipet and “Jade something weapons”. Or something.

Really sad that Anet keep doing this.

Mind posting a link? I don’t use reddit.

EDIT: Found Link in other post

Guys, really. Everyone needs to just STOP BUYING THESE.

And don’t think it’s ok to trade gold for gems and buy them that way. Even if you spend only in-game money, you are trading your IRL time for driving the gem prices up, which is what they want! (Time = Money!)

If you want to spend money in the gem store, buy their non-RNG items. If people buy non-RNG stuff and ignore the boxes, the boxes will have to go away eventually, but it’s not going to work unless a majority of the player base gets on board with it.

^ Basically this. However, I’m kinda resigned to the fact that the RNG boxes will continue. If existing sales data is any indication, there’s a LOT of players out there willing to continue playing the RNG slot machine. Since it brings in a lot of income for ANet, they’d be foolish to stop doing it as long as there are people willing to pay for it.

None of the skins that were released by RNG boxes appealed to me. So far so good.
I hope that it doesn’t change, or I guess I will go crazy farming so I can trade gold for gems (nope, I’m not buying RNG stuff with real life money EVER).

This is considered RNG?

Compared to other games like Scarlet Blade the item-mall here is pretty much fair. But lacking.

By the standards of scammy Korean FtP-Pay2Win MMOs it’s very fair. But this isn’t some scamgrind Korean MMO, this is GUILD WARS 2, and we all expect better of Arenanet.

Realistically, the RNG boxes probably aren’t ever going away, because there are enough people who hate their money to keep them profitable.. and if that is the cost of Anet keeping Nexon happy and staying in business so be it. I just hope that they will continue to offer adequate content and rewards for people who outright refuse to participate in it.

RusieQ.8569:

This is considered RNG?

Compared to other games like Scarlet Blade the item-mall here is pretty much fair. But lacking.

The concern is about the RNG items and not about the entire ‘item-mall’. And yea obviosly the RNG-based chests are considered RNG.

Maybe you are mixing it up with pay-to-win? GW2 so far has no pay-to-win.

Yep. Yet again they add cool new weapons that 90% or more of the players will never see. So glad they’re investing their time and money creating neat skins that almost the entire playerbase will never be able to use.

But it’s ok, we can keep using the same skins that are available level 1-80 (you know, the same basic greatsword, sword, wood shield, etc).

RusieQ.8569:

This is considered RNG?

Compared to other games like Scarlet Blade the item-mall here is pretty much fair. But lacking.

With the crap they pulled in Scarlet Blade, that game should never be used as a metric for these things. If it gets to the point where you have to use that as a means to display a favourable comparison, the game in question has fallen too far.

If it is popular in other places, fine. But I am getting sick of this. It has to end. At this rate, if this continues, I think I am just done with MMOs all together. I really liked this game too but this is getting too aggravating and I do not know if I really want to be part of game that carries such practices as this box crap.

Awaiting, “I spent $60 on boxes and didn’t get anything but crafting materials!!!!! I’m never going to buy another one!!”

At least it provides some you can count on.

As long as they’re just weaponskins, I don’t care.
They don’t prevent you from enjoying every game content.

I just hope they keep giving us “free” weaponskins as Super Adventure Box and Halloween ones.

I’m ok with rng boxes. They make the unique items more rare plus a-net might actually earn some profit from the gem store… possibly. Then there’s the fact that without them, I would have stayed in Southsun for 2 days tops opposed to my two weeks of grinding.

Why is Arena Net doing everything they can to make me hate them and stop supporting their game?

I really like the game but I’m losing respect for AN because all these stupid random boxes with a 0.001% chance just to get 1 skin is becoming a joke.

If you want to charge for the skins then fine put the skins up for straight sale and i will buy them.

Please anet stop with this……… make them difficult to get, but this is not the best way to do it, RNG boxes are just terrible, the only thig that RNG boxes says to all the people is that ANet only wants money. You are just repeating the same error that precursors have.

i buy Guild wars 2, not Grind wars 2,

Buying stuff from cash shop doesn’t even go to arena net. It goes to NCSoft. :/