Guild Wars 2

It MAY have been already discussed, but I wanted confirmation from other people as some guys in Gunnars Hold were as surprised as me when I noticed this.
Also, I read (again) all Patch notes since the April 15th patch, and this was not mentioned anywhere. If there has already been a discussion about this matter, consider void this thread, which I will delete soon afterwards.

Anyway, simply put, all WvW GOLD rewards have been halved. Whenever we kill a Dolyak, we take a Sentry, a Camp, a Tower or a Keep, all the gold rewards have been reduced by 50%.

Old rewards can be found here: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World_versus_World#Rewards

Proof of the reduced rewards can be found in these screenshots I’ve just taken after completing some objectives:
http://imgur.com/coer1lX.jpg (dolly kill reward)
http://imgur.com/0zJHnoy.jpg (keep cap reward)
http://imgur.com/WtmuNqD.jpg (tower cap reward)
http://i.imgur.com/FoNwwS3.jpg (sentry cap reward)
http://i.imgur.com/zUF3MJr.jpg (camp capture reward)

I still haven’t capped SM, nor defended any objective to get a “Defend an objective” reward, but I suppose it’s fair to assume that even these kinds of rewards have been nerfed.

The question is: why? WvW people have already suffered a lot in terms of earning gold. Compared to dungeons, Champ Trains, TP flipping, mat farming and so on, the gold that WvW players were able to get by doing what they like most was really low. Even if we managed to cap a lot of stuff, the rewards were really insignificant – sometimes I even spent more on food buffs than what I got back by capping stuff (if I was really unlucky).

…and now all the rewards are halved?

They reduced these rewards in the same update that removed repair cost.

I personally don’t see why they had to remove it from WvW as well, it’s not like the loot gains are amazing. In fact I’ve always found GW2’s reward system to be the most unexciting of any MMO I have ever played, it’s like they are intentionally trying to make sure players earn extremely little in order to push up the value of gold.

LMAO! Didnt even realise, get so little loot and gold in WvW that only a few people have noticed this reduction of gold! Amazing!

BRING BACK REPAIR COSTS! I WANT MY GOLD!!

Oh wow, I wonder, has anyone checked if PvE rewards have been halved as well? If not this could cause a big puppy-storm, WvW players having yet more proof that we are being treated as second class players…..

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

LMAO! Didnt even realise, get so little loot and gold in WvW that only a few people have noticed this reduction of gold! Amazing!

BRING BACK REPAIR COSTS! I WANT MY GOLD!!

Oh wow, I wonder, has anyone checked if PvE rewards have been halved as well? If not this could cause a big puppy-storm, WvW players having yet more proof that we are being treated as second class players…..

The changes covered all events PvE/WvW.

Raap.9065:

I personally don’t see why they had to remove it from WvW as well, it’s not like the loot gains are amazing. In fact I’ve always found GW2’s reward system to be the most unexciting of any MMO I have ever played, it’s like they are intentionally trying to make sure players earn extremely little in order to push up the value of gold.

They did completely miss the point of loot. GW1’s loot system was horrid and they carried the same mentality into GW2.