Guild Wars 2

I started this as a support request. Similarly to the post on other topics, I received the “we can’t refund time gated currency” message. Support is really support-ive of my plight.. they suggested I bring it to this forum.

Your thoughts:

First, thanks for an awesome game. I’ve invested a good 9300+ hours of my life playing , have met wonderful people and received excellent support for previous issues. It is with this, I calmly present my story and request for your consideration.

Let me give you my backstory..

The legendary backpiece for PvP seemed like a great way to get into PvP, but I found myself hitting the wall and realizing I’d have to spend countless hours on a game mode I don’t like, so I stopped playing PvP altogether and decided to wait on another mode to the the back piece.

The legendary backpiece in Fractals looked good, but I just wasn’t focused enough to go through the process, at the time. (Now, I have a group and we are starting the process to get this one.. I’ve never had anything back to say about this method of back piece acquisition)

When Legendary Armor was released and put behind raids, I was extremely disappointed – as I don’t find their structure appealing. Hearing that there would be no upcoming alternative methods to acquire Legendary Armor put a real spike in my enthusiasm.

So, when the Warbringer came out, and in a game mode I’ve really found my place in, I was VERY EXCITED! I had tickets saved from the past seasons, and I was ready to go. Over the weeks, I found the grind to 175 tickets very painful, but my spreadsheet showed me a light at the end of the tunnel. Even when I burned out to realize I should stop at 100 tickets a week, it was ok. THEN, I bought the 3rd tier of backpiece, happily expecting to see that all I had to do for the next one was have a commander tag (which I do)… and I learned it was 875 MORE tickets! This backpiece is already the biggest time suck of the 3, so when I realized it was 12 more weeks instead of 4 for me to complete, I hit the brakes.

What my big mistake was — I put all my tickets into buying each piece, as I had them. So, all my tickets are used, on something I decided that I’d just suck it up and finish at some point in the future.

Now, the big reveal – that I can use tickets to get the WvW-specific ascended armor pieces to make LEGENDARY ARMOR!

So, what I wanted in the first place, the Legendary Armor, which I thought I would just have to give up on, is available.

Except, because there was every indication we would not see this in WvW, I felt safe to put my tickets into that backpiece.

Now I feel royalled ripped off, punched right in the gut. It has been pain after pain, and a final kick in the teeth.

I feel that because of this, I respectfully deserve to have the tickets I used on the Warbringer returned. I am happy to destroy all of the components and precursor backpieces and suck up whatever non-ticket loss I incur with this process.

Please let me know what I can do to assit in this process.

I calculated that total amount I’ve spent, in tickets, on the backpiece so far, is 1575.

Recruit’s Wings of War – 375 tickets
Soldier’s Wings of War – 525 tickets
General’s Wings of War – 700 tickets

I created the following ingredients:
Mystic Essence of Strategy
Mystic Essence of Animosity
Mystic Essence of Carnage

Fortunately for me, I didn’t make the Gift of Conquering :P

Thanks for reading and may you have a good weekend!

That really sucks, I feel for you. But I don’t agree that you should get a refund.

This makes no sense at all. If I spent all my gold making a legendary and the a HOT legendary came out should I get my gold back?…no.

You’ll need at least 7650 tickets to make a full set of Legendary Armor on WvW (That if you don’t care about the T3 Triumphant Skins, which are another 2700 tickets)…

I hope this is enough to make you give up and finish your backpiece.

Cheers.

Welp…seen it earlier but can’t find it. Tickets cannot be handed out for any reason. Time gated stuff…something like that. I assume that covers refunds. Good luck

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I had a slightly less kick in the teeth, in which I bought the exotic t2 sets, only for them to release legendary armour and make it so you needed the ascended, not exotic, for the precursor.

I bought these as well: Recruit’s Wings of War; Soldier’s Wings of War; General’s Wings of War.

Will I continue with the backpiece? No
Do I think I should get a refund? No

I could have waited until I had the materials, but didn’t, so it is on me.

You don’t deserve a refund, you chose to spend those tickets, you just have to earn some more, suck it up.

You spent your tickets on available rewards at the time. There’s no reason you should get the refund because a new carrot was added.

Let me put this in perspective for you….

When tickets were first given as tournament rewards, many of us spent them at the vendor for items we liked. Those that didn’t like any of the items held on to the currency, waiting to see if anything else came down the pipe that they felt was worth spending the tickets on.

What you’re doing would be exactly the same as if those that bought the initial rewards felt that they were entitled to get a refund merely because some new reward was being offered.

Your position is silly at best. Stop it.

I think you might have more fun with games if you play a mode because you enjoy the gameplay, not because you are depositing hours into some kind of reward 401(k) plan. It’s supposed to be fun, not a prize contract.

style.6173:

I bought these as well: Recruit’s Wings of War; Soldier’s Wings of War; General’s Wings of War.

Will I continue with the backpiece? No
Do I think I should get a refund? No

I could have waited until I had the materials, but didn’t, so it is on me.

I think the point is, Anet should have released the legendary armour alongside the T2/3 sets. It was a cruel joke not to.
On a personal note, I’m not bitter and don’t think I deserve a refund since I’ll be playing WvW long after I get the pieces.

Sorry for your situation op. I’ve learned from years of gaming to just save all my resources until the very last minute and then buy everything at once.

Raiders keep complaining how WvW legendaries are too easy to get but they don’t realize that both the WvW back piece and armors require the same time gated resource. The PVE legendary back piece (fractals) and armor can be work on at the same time.

Sucks to hear – I am sure a lot of people are in a similar situation. However – how did you come up with 12 weeks for 875 tickets? in 3 weeks you can get 1100?

I understand your story, but I do not agree with you. You should not be refunded just because you changed your mind. I mean that is essentially what you are doing here. It is like eating half a pie or cake and trying to return it cause you simply do not want it/like it anymore.

Wat

just keep on farming tickets… You still want the backpiece too or not?
Just because you want the legendary armorpieces even more now is no good enough reason for a refund

And just remember that you can farm tickets more than twice as fast now!

So just keep on playing the gamemode you enjoy and soon you will be able to buy the armorpieces too

zectra.6978:

Sucks to hear – I am sure a lot of people are in a similar situation. However – how did you come up with 12 weeks for 875 tickets? in 3 weeks you can get 1100?

I started going for 175/week, but I don’t have that many minutes in a week for another full time job while I’m busy being a single parent and company owner. 100/week seemed like a fairly achievable goal.

Also, I had tickets from the season at the start.

Orangensaft.7139:

Wat

just keep on farming tickets… You still want the backpiece too or not?
Just because you want the legendary armorpieces even more now is no good enough reason for a refund

And just remember that you can farm tickets more than twice as fast now!

So just keep on playing the gamemode you enjoy and soon you will be able to buy the armorpieces too

I went for the backpiece because there was nothing else for me to spend them on, and we were told there wouldn’t be ways to get legendary armor outside of Raids. Now, I am going to let the parts rot because every ticket I get will go toward legendary armor.

You are right with the strategy, I will keep playing and getting more tickets.. but those tickets I did use were real time that I can’t get back in my life.

Malerian.8435:

I understand your story, but I do not agree with you. You should not be refunded just because you changed your mind. I mean that is essentially what you are doing here. It is like eating half a pie or cake and trying to return it cause you simply do not want it/like it anymore.

I’m not asking for a refund because I changed my mind about anything.

Sorry if you misunderstood. I would have never considered making the backpiece if there was a chance of using them in the future, but we were told that there wouldn’t be legendary armor coming to WvW.

Vagrant.8613:

Sorry for your situation op. I’ve learned from years of gaming to just save all my resources until the very last minute and then buy everything at once.

Raiders keep complaining how WvW legendaries are too easy to get but they don’t realize that both the WvW back piece and armors require the same time gated resource. The PVE legendary back piece (fractals) and armor can be work on at the same time.

So true. I saved the season tickets for so long, I don’t know what possessed me to buy any of the backpack precursors before I could get everything. I guess just caught up in the excitement..

Lahmia.2193:

I had a slightly less kick in the teeth, in which I bought the exotic t2 sets, only for them to release legendary armour and make it so you needed the ascended, not exotic, for the precursor.

I heard someone (you?) mention that on Redditt, I think. Yea, this whole thing was pretty badly planned. I don’t think they in any way meant to screw us over, but there should be some consideration.

That said, the support team did mention they were looking at ways to remedy the issue (as it was more than just you and I who got the screw job, apparently).

Cross fingers

Malice Wonder.6713:

we were told that there wouldn’t be legendary armor coming to WvW.

Where’d you read this?

Firebaall.5127:

You spent your tickets on available rewards at the time. There’s no reason you should get the refund because a new carrot was added.

Let me put this in perspective for you….

When tickets were first given as tournament rewards, many of us spent them at the vendor for items we liked. Those that didn’t like any of the items held on to the currency, waiting to see if anything else came down the pipe that they felt was worth spending the tickets on.

What you’re doing would be exactly the same as if those that bought the initial rewards felt that they were entitled to get a refund merely because some new reward was being offered.

Your position is silly at best. Stop it.

You’re forgetting the time difference between the seasons and now, and between the back piece and the legendary armor.

Your attempt to put it in perspective is silly. Stop it.

Jeknar.6184:

You’ll need at least 7650 tickets to make a full set of Legendary Armor on WvW (That if you don’t care about the T3 Triumphant Skins, which are another 2700 tickets)…

I hope this is enough to make you give up and finish your backpiece.

Cheers.

1575 tickets is a big chunk toward the 7650. I can get a backpiece in Fractals, but I am not going to do raids to get the armor.

Eventually I’ll end up with all of it, I suppose

Thanks!

diamondgirl.6315:

I think you might have more fun with games if you play a mode because you enjoy the gameplay, not because you are depositing hours into some kind of reward 401(k) plan. It’s supposed to be fun, not a prize contract.

But, this is how the game is made… to put hundreds of hours into acquiring a reward.

I’m have fun, and even happier that there are multiple ways to get the gear in different game modes now.

I just got myself caught up in (what I think is) a crumby situation.

Malice Wonder.6713:

You’re forgetting the time difference between the seasons and now, and between the back piece and the legendary armor.

Your attempt to put it in perspective is silly. Stop it.

That doesn’t matter at all. Just because you’re lamenting your choices, it doesn’t change the fact that you don’t deserve a refund. You spent your currency on something you wanted, and now that there’s something you want MORE, it’s ok?

lol…

No.