Guild Wars 2

I don’t mind buying bank slots, character slots, cosmetic stuff, and I wouldn’t even mind paying for server transfers. However, reading the recent article here gave me “that feeling” in the pit of my stomach.

Long story short, you can play ‘free tournaments’, or you can use tokens or cash for ‘paid tournaments’. The ‘paid tournaments’ have better rewards, reward all players who play, and cost money. I haven’t seen prices for paid tickets yet, but I automatically can disagree with it on the aspect that this is requiring players (who wish to compete in more than their chest-reward couple of free tournaments) to pay for access to content, and I’m not really okay with it. It sounds, and probably is – DLC. In a very abstract way, it’s technically paying for an advantage (more rewards, more glory). It’t now ‘Pay-2-Win’, but it’s pretty close.

Additionally, they are also going to add “rentable” custom arena’s, which will most likely have some sort of “use real money” mechanic to it as well (why would they call it ‘rentable’ otherwise?). I don’t know, maybe pvp lobby space is limited, and they can only afford more of it to be let go for money (which sounds more like poor planning). I’m not liking the idea of it, and am considering putting off my personal venture into the depths of SPvP as a result. Realitically, there will be a great percentage of the PvP-demographic that will just assume stick to free tournaments than spend money on it. What’s stopping them from monetizing access to WvW?

TL;DR: New “paid tournaments” and “rentable custom arena’s” sound like DLC – which is not okay.

What is ok?

You make tournament tickets by doing free torunaments easy. If you are good enough, they will come quick. If you aren’t that good, you probably don’t want to be wasting on paid tournaments yet. Paid tournaments have a gem payout, probably greater than the value of the tickets you need to get in.

It’s for very well structured teams. And it’s not them being greedy, its very generous and the system is going to make for less, but much better quality tournaments when doing paid. Absolutely no merit in whining here.

Ticket prices are in the Black Lion Trading Company. They’re cheap. You can buy them for in-game gold after converting to gems. Five tickets for 75 gems.

LoreChief.8391:

Realitically, there will be a great percentage of the PvP-demographic that will just assume stick to free tournaments than spend money on it. What’s stopping them from monetizing access to WvW?

Realistically how would you reward someone in WvW similar to paid tournaments and why would they do that? You get like 170 gems for getting 1st in PvP, so in theory they would (if it was paid WvW) give 170 gems to…the population of the winning side that joined WvW in the entire week?

Only the top 4 players (2 per team) will get gems first off, which means that the other 12 players spent money for nothing. This system is set to only reward the “gem prize” to top contenders. I can already tell that because there exists a way to make gems off of this, that many players will automatically disregard any protest to the system as “whining” as is already happening in this thread…

I would just assume not have gems rewarded as a prize at all, and keep the “hardcore” tournaments free.

Eveningstar

Ticket prices are in the Black Lion Trading Company. They’re cheap. You can buy them for in-game gold after converting to gems. Five tickets for 75 gems.

There does not exist an option in the BLTC to buy such a limited amount of gems. You buy $10 worth, so the ‘price’ is actually considerably more important than just the perceived small value you’ve put to it.

Sprinkles

You make tournament tickets by doing free torunaments easy. If you are good enough, they will come quick.

Maybe I’m wrong, but the only place I’ve received free tickets from is my rank-up chest, which is a limited resource since you can max out on levels (or does over-ranking exist similar to over-leveling in PvE?). Either there are so many tickets earned for free that it trivializes the reasoning behind charging for them in the first place, or there are so few that the justification behind them is only to offer a free-trial of paid-tournaments.

Dead

Realistically how would you reward someone in WvW similar to paid tournaments and why would they do that? You get like 170 gems for getting 1st in PvP, so in theory they would (if it was paid WvW) give 170 gems to…the population of the winning side that joined WvW in the entire week?

“Every 10 towers capped = 2 free hours of WvW time! Or you can buy WvW vouchers from the Gem Shop!”

I don’t see the issue, you earn tickets for the paid tourneys in the free tourneys and you can use earned gold to buy tickets from the TP.

You get so many free tickets (provided you are with the same group of people I guess) when you do free tournaments. If you can’t win FTs to get tickets, you shouldn’t be doing PTs anyways. If you are a free kill for the other team, you upset the balance of the tournament.

LoreChief.8391:

I don’t mind buying bank slots, character slots, cosmetic stuff, and I wouldn’t even mind paying for server transfers. However, reading the recent article here gave me “that feeling” in the pit of my stomach.

Long story short, you can play ‘free tournaments’, or you can use tokens or cash for ‘paid tournaments’. The ‘paid tournaments’ have better rewards, reward all players who play, and cost money. I haven’t seen prices for paid tickets yet, but I automatically can disagree with it on the aspect that this is requiring players (who wish to compete in more than their chest-reward couple of free tournaments) to pay for access to content, and I’m not really okay with it. It sounds, and probably is – DLC. In a very abstract way, it’s technically paying for an advantage (more rewards, more glory). It’t now ‘Pay-2-Win’, but it’s pretty close.

Additionally, they are also going to add “rentable” custom arena’s, which will most likely have some sort of “use real money” mechanic to it as well (why would they call it ‘rentable’ otherwise?). I don’t know, maybe pvp lobby space is limited, and they can only afford more of it to be let go for money (which sounds more like poor planning). I’m not liking the idea of it, and am considering putting off my personal venture into the depths of SPvP as a result. Realitically, there will be a great percentage of the PvP-demographic that will just assume stick to free tournaments than spend money on it. What’s stopping them from monetizing access to WvW?

TL;DR: New “paid tournaments” and “rentable custom arena’s” sound like DLC – which is not okay.

You get tickets from doing free tournaments. You aren’t forced to pay real money or gems for anything. As a casual player that has done mostly pug free tournies, I have more than 100 tickets already.

“it’s technically paying for an advantage”
How so, does glory give you better weapons and armor if you have more?

Yea I’m not really seeing a problem here when you get the tickets from free tourneys or with in game gold. 1 ticket per person for 1 PT, if you can’t win free tournaments dont play the paid ones…