Guild Wars 2

Aerlen.5326:

Corpus Christi.2057:

pdg.8462:

Ravenmoon.5318:

jheryn.8390:

Jordo.5913:

I planned on getting T3 Human for my elementalist human upon reaching level 80, but now i’m going to get it at half the price, plus it’ll even look cooler with the fire on it!

Don’t ruin this for me!

So for all the people who worked hard and paid full price for that armor, they shouldn’t complain because it will ruin it for you? Wow… Just… Wow.

If you buy 1kg of bananas for 20 euro today just to see it in promotion tomorrow in half the price, will you boycott the supermarket, lol

So many delusional people on this board …

Straw man.

Bananas do not have the same clout as T3 cultural armor. A better analogy might be “If you buy an iPhone for $600 today just to see it in promotion tomorrow in half the price, will you boycott the vendor, lol”.

It’s still a terrible analogy since it does not include the “exclusivity” element, which is pivotal here.
A better analogy would, therefore, be:
“If you buy X, which is designed for a group of people C1, for $600, just to see it in sale for a group of people C2 ( for which it has never been designed ) for $300, will you boycott the vendor?”
The answer is obvious: yes

You buy X which has a limited run of 800 and you pay full price for it. Lucky you happen to be a member of X club which were the only people allowed the chance to buy X at all.

Wow. Such cool. Very show off. Much value. You have X and you get to show X off.

The company that makes X sees X sold so well; lots of people liked X, lots of others want X but can’t get X. They like money because, let’s be honest, what company doesn’t? So they decide to make a variation of X called Y. Y is available to everyone and costs less. Some people think Y looks better, some people think Y is crap, but Y sells.

So do you as an owner of X toss a fit? X is still the original and very easily told apart from Y. Having X still says you are a member of an exclusive club and didn’t have to “settle” for Y. Having Y says you couldn’t get X or maybe you like Y better. True, Y existing devalues X somewhat… but likely people who have Y could never afford X to begin with.

BTW – this happens all the time in the collectables market over real goods that are bought as investments, not cosmetic enhancements for pixels. I still think this was a lazy thing for Anet to do but the rage over it doesn’t make sense to me.

This analogy might work if you included the following points:

1. Those who bought X were told that this item would remain exclusive to only their group.

2. Y is sold at half the cost of X

3. Y has added features that X does not have.

Julischka Bean.7491:

Lisa digs in her big feets and scowls a giant scowl. Call me stupid if you wish, when I first saw the Flamekissed light set in the Gem store I did not think about Tier 3 culture armor. What made me squeal with glee, whip out my card and buy two sets, was this set looks fabulous on both my female Asura Necro and my male Sylvari Elementalist.

My Necro just hit 80 and I had been looking about in vain for an armor set which looked good on her.

I found nothing.

I was a sad panda until I saw this armor. It was perfect. Captured her personality perfectly.

I am going to fight for this armor. It was there to sell, and I, in good faith, bought not one, but two sets and am thinking about buying a heavy version for my Char Warrior.

However, I do understand and sympathize with everyone who struggled, and farmed, and spent a lot of time earning the gold for cultural T3.

I agree Anet never should have reskinned a set that was human only, and expensive to get.

If the Flame kissed one did not look so wonderfully good on my Necro, I would not fight for this armor at all….but…it does look good on my little Asura, and is the only Light armor that I have found that does look good on her.

Darn and blast.

Anet, if you are going to replace this skin with another, which is the right thing to do, please, please, please make sure it looks good on a little pony tailed, green eyed, demon of an asura. If you can do that, I will be happy and keep on spending real money in your gem store.

*Sigh.

Lisa.

Thank you for your empathetic stance on this issue. As someone who spent quite a bit of gold for the tier 3 cultural armor for my human mesmer, it is upsetting to see that quite a few people made posts gleefully telling Anet how pleased they are that this armor was made available to other races.

I am beyond disappointed that anet decided to include this set in the gem store. Like many others in this thread, I put in quite a bit of time and effort in order to earn the gold for the human tier 3 light armor.

Anet, how are you going to fix this situation? We’re all waiting for a response from you.