Guild Wars 2

I want to trade with a trusted friend my GW2 gold for his GW1 gold.

Problem is, how much is it worth?

I would assume because of supply and demand gold farmed in GW2 is worth much more than gold farmed in GW1 with the same time investment, but I really don’t know by how much.

Could any economists here help us work out how much 1G in GW2 is worth in GW1 platinum? Thanks!

I’m not even sure how you could work that out.

I’ve done very simple price comparisons by working on the idea that in GW1 1 gold is the smallest possible unit of currency, so it’s the equivalent of 1 copper in GW2. Which means 1k in GW1 money is 1g in GW2.

But that’s only for comparing prices – mainly for explaining to people who never played it how 1k can be considered not a lot of money and some items could easily sell for over 100k.

I have no idea how you’d factor supply and demand or time invested into that.

Kain Francois.4328:

I want to trade with a trusted friend my GW2 gold for his GW1 gold.

Problem is, how much is it worth?

I would assume because of supply and demand gold farmed in GW2 is worth much more than gold farmed in GW1 with the same time investment, but I really don’t know by how much.

Could any economists here help us work out how much 1G in GW2 is worth in GW1 platinum? Thanks!

I would strongly advise against doing this. It is against the rules to trade ingame currency to anything valuable outside the game. This include with things valuable in a different game.

From this it is a small step to trade gw2 currency to WoW currency. From thakittens again a small step to trade gw2 currency to real life currency. It is against the user agreement of both games and both games are considered different games. So basicly don’t.

Friendly donations among friends is off course perfectly allowed, as long as you don’t trade it is still allowed that your friend donate money to you and you donate money to your friend. But make sure it is a donation. Even asking for transfer rates means your heading into the direction of trading.

If you are donating your friend an x amount of gw2 gold and he is donating you an x amount of gw1 gold that is perfectly ok. It is with donations up to each party to decide how thankfull you are. Maybe consider how long you had to play to calculate the value of your friends gift??

Danikat.8537:

I’m not even sure how you could work that out.

I’ve done very simple price comparisons by working on the idea that in GW1 1 gold is the smallest possible unit of currency, so it’s the equivalent of 1 copper in GW2. Which means 1k in GW1 money is 1g in GW2.

But that’s only for comparing prices – mainly for explaining to people who never played it how 1k can be considered not a lot of money and some items could easily sell for over 100k.

I have no idea how you’d factor supply and demand or time invested into that.

Surely 1g is more than 1k? Expensive GW1 items such as ectos drop more often than in GW2, so I was thinking 10g= 100k? Maybe that is still too high? 10g= 50k?

Kain Francois.4328:

Danikat.8537:

I’m not even sure how you could work that out.

I’ve done very simple price comparisons by working on the idea that in GW1 1 gold is the smallest possible unit of currency, so it’s the equivalent of 1 copper in GW2. Which means 1k in GW1 money is 1g in GW2.

But that’s only for comparing prices – mainly for explaining to people who never played it how 1k can be considered not a lot of money and some items could easily sell for over 100k.

I have no idea how you’d factor supply and demand or time invested into that.

Surely 1g is more than 1k? Expensive GW1 items such as ectos drop more often than in GW2, so I was thinking 10g= 100k? Maybe that is still too high? 10g= 50k?

Do Cof p1 SC for an hour and you likely end up with 8-10g. While UWSC for eg was about 15 mins/15-30k in its best time (with randoms 20-30 min, 50% chance to get the endchest). 10g for 100k I think is reasonable. Or mabye 15g for 100k. Really depends

mercury ranique.2170:

Friendly donations among friends is off course perfectly allowed, as long as you don’t trade it is still allowed that your friend donate money to you and you donate money to your friend. But make sure it is a donation. Even asking for transfer rates means your heading into the direction of trading.

You could also say that for money. I donated 100 gold to my friend, shortly after that friend donated 30 dollars to me.

Could also be said for certain ladies of the night. She donated 1 hour of her time to me in that hotel, shortly after I donated $50 to her.

My point being is it could still easily be considered wrong.

Ethics.4519:

mercury ranique.2170:

Friendly donations among friends is off course perfectly allowed, as long as you don’t trade it is still allowed that your friend donate money to you and you donate money to your friend. But make sure it is a donation. Even asking for transfer rates means your heading into the direction of trading.

You could also say that for money. I donated 100 gold to my friend, shortly after that friend donated 30 dollars to me.

Could also be said for certain ladies of the night. She donated 1 hour of her time to me in that hotel, shortly after I donated $50 to her.

My point being is it could still easily be considered wrong.

That is indeed my point. Trying to find an exchange rate is clearly doing a trade, even among friends thats not allowed and wrong.

If you would are my friend and do something friendly for me, and I would feel obliged to do something for you in return (even without you asking for something), I would use my own judgement to think of a fitting return thank you.

Kain Francois.4328:

Danikat.8537:

I’m not even sure how you could work that out.

I’ve done very simple price comparisons by working on the idea that in GW1 1 gold is the smallest possible unit of currency, so it’s the equivalent of 1 copper in GW2. Which means 1k in GW1 money is 1g in GW2.

But that’s only for comparing prices – mainly for explaining to people who never played it how 1k can be considered not a lot of money and some items could easily sell for over 100k.

I have no idea how you’d factor supply and demand or time invested into that.

Surely 1g is more than 1k? Expensive GW1 items such as ectos drop more often than in GW2, so I was thinking 10g= 100k? Maybe that is still too high? 10g= 50k?

That’s why I said it’s a very simple comparison that doesn’t factor in supply and demand or time invested. I’ve never been interested in farming so I don’t have a good idea of drop rates and I have no idea how long different runs take.

But it’s a starting point at least.