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And holy moly, that sucker’s EXPENSIVE. 3499G. I want it so bad, but I also don’t want to farm for the rest of my natural born life. I do wonder how long it would take me to get it if I really buckled down and started farming. But then again I also ask myself how much fun that would actually be…
Woo! Thanks for all the civil replies. Good points on both ends. Since there seemed to be some confusion about my initial grievance, let me reiterate. I’m not annoyed at the price point, or that there IS a price point. I think something like this should cost money, and I’m happy to pay it. I’m annoyed that my 2 options are
A) Buy a surplus of Gems for more money than what the transfer costs, or
B) Use my in game gold, which takes time to raise.
To me it’s quite unfair that a service like this doesn’t have a straight, simple exchange and instead requires quite a bit more money, or requires me to farm for a time to make up the difference when I could be doing other things like leveling my characters (so hype about the specializations!) or getting bandit crests for those minis I want.
I want to, but I feel like raising that kind of money is gonna be difficult. I checked the exchange rate and it’s about 32 gold right now.
The only thing I’ve ever spent gems on is extra character slots (again, a thing I don’t mind spending money on, makes sense.) I don’t really need to ease of life items, and I’m not much into cosmetics. So yeah, it’s a bit of a problem for me unfortunately.
Now let me preface, I have absolutely no problem with paying for a server transfer. I understand it’s a drain on resources, and also discourages cheating in WvW, or something to that effect. What I do have a problem with is the price point being 1800 gems, but I can only buy 1600 for $20, unless I want to go one tier up and get 2800 for $35, or do two transactions of 800 for $10 and 1600 for $20. I’d gladly pay $20, or even a hair more to get the transfer done, but it’s incredibly frustrating to be essentially forced into getting a larger package than what I want for what should be a fairly simple process. It really feels like I’m being taken advantage of. Yeah I can pay with gold, but that’s assuming I can get that amount of gold and that could take days just to work up 200 gems, which is far more than I’ve ever had in the past. The most gold I’ve ever had at one time is what I have right now, and that’s 10. This is genuinely upsetting that I have to pay so much more than what it actually costs.