Guild Wars 2

Gaile Gray.6029:

Here’s the interface for exchanging gems for gold.

Hopefully someone can explain what they feel is wrong about this, because in both cases the amount is carefully parsed to the smallest denominator that I can see.

Are you concerned that you cannot buy 512 gold, 4 silver, and 93 copper? Well, that’s true, it’s not possible. But there’s no “cash grab” that I can see, and I’m trying to understand what your concerns are.

Hi,
I don’t care about a “cash grab” issue, I would prefer however that when exchanging gems for gold, I could select the amount of gems I wanted to exchange.

Since this new custom window makes you choose the amount of gold you want to buy, we still have to struggle with using odd-ball amounts of gems to make our purchase. In addition, the field defaults back to one if you are trying to erase the entire number so you can put another amount in (so when trying to see how many gems it would cost for 20 gold after trying 19, i need to make it 29 then delete the 9 and replace it with a zero).

I would most prefer having it base the amount of “gold” off of how many gems i want to spend (I believe this is the main issues causing the “cash grab” accusations). However if (barring that) we could at least have those little up/down arrows like we do on quantities in other parts of the BLTC, it would be easier to find an amount of gold that actually worked out to an increment of 100 gems.

Thanks for your time and patience with us over this.

Hi,

In general I appreciate the new UI improvements, and certainly the Currency UI upgrade looks nice.

However, in terms of functionality it has (to me) a major issue. When I purchase Gems with real life money and subsequently wish to purchase gold with my Gems, I do not ever want to spend odd ball amounts of gems on Gold (like 819 gems for 100 or 843 gems for 100)

It looks to me like you got it backwards, the “even” amounts should be what you are spending rather than what you are receiving. I won’t be spending RL cash to purchase 800 more gems because I am short short 57 or 81.

I do like the new look (though I also appreciated the graph showing trends) but being forced to buy in increments like this will only impede monetary purchases from players like myself.

Thank you for your time and consideration of this issue.

Sincerely,

ALdbeign

I’m glad I looked into this, I was totally ready to buy it but yeah, being stuck in a useless instance isn’t worth anything (especially since I have a captain pass). While I know this isn’t a suggestion thread, I can’t help but say that what I would rather see is a “guild instance” where a guild could purchase the vendors and members could have a stone just like this that took them there (and back again)…that would rule