Guild Wars 2

If he’s on Henge of Denravi, that place is practically a ghost town. Everyone left for the server that’s winning WvW.

Look at the EVE system. CCP sells all the pilot licenses and people buy them for real cash and then sell them in game for Isk to other players. CCP sets the cost of RM to PL but once in game, the players decide how much to sell them for to other buyers who in turn decide how much they are willing to spend on them.

Mythinite.7130:

So what, nobody wants to answer my question why a solid 1 gold = 100 gems idea is bad?

If the currencies were linked at a fixed rate without transaction fees, there would be no need for two separate currencies. You could just buy gold directly from ANet instead of gems, and pay with gold in the gem store. That’s not really an argument either way though.

The gem store is a gold sink. Every time a player exchanges gold into gems, it removes gold from the game. At release, gold was scarce and you could get a lot of gems for it. As the game progresses, gold becomes much more common. The exchange rate has to keep up with the gold inflation, ensuring that gem store items are always priced in such a way that players can justify purchasing gems for real money. If it didn’t, a year or two down the line, players would have no incentive to buy gems for real money as everyone is sitting on hundreds if not thousands of gold.

What?! Are you playing the same game as everyone else? Where is gold falling from the skies? I’m level 80 and I’m struggling to find a good source of gold. There are already so many gold sinks in the game that I don’t see anyone sitting on a pot of it unless that’s all they’re doing. Repair bills are very high already as well as travel costs. Now one O’m armored up, I imagine that unless I buy it, it’s hard to keep one gold in my inventory for more than a few days.

So what, nobody wants to answer my question why a solid 1 gold = 100 gems idea is bad?

VendettaDFA.9368:

Promega.7628:

@VendettaDFA

Of course you can shoot a hole in any suggestion in a single sentence if your not going to take the time to actually think of how it can be overcome. We could sit here and argue all day, you come up with silly reasons why a system wont work, and I’ll come up with systems to overcome them. Thats called development and is the process to improving things. Simply doing ban waves will get no where as we have seen over the past decade plus of proof in other games.

In the end I really dont care as long as my account never gets compromised. I acquire more than enough gold, am a couple days away from my first legendary, and am not bothered by the gold spam.

The game is great, but could be even better if resources were redirected to pumping out content instead of babysitting a system that provides very little to the community and enables RMT/botting/account compromises.

I started a thread on banning gold buyers that extended over 7 pages by the time the moderator locked it down. I have more than thought it out and frankly after that fight I don’t wish to discuss it further than the bottom line statement I gave. Research the other threads if you want to see all the discussion. Heres my old one … its way more than a single sentence.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Gold-Buyers-Lets-deal-with-the-cause-in-addition-to-the-effect

Also noticed you even POSTED TO THAT THREAD. You sir, are just trolling.

You’re right Vendetta, you did post thread which is exactly like this thread and that one was closed, so close this one too. What can be said about this topic has been said, enough is enough.

Sorry, wanted to adds something else real quick.

AN can’t undercut the RMT without causing a huge influx of gold into the game, ruining things. My 1 gold = 100 gems idea would make buying gold (lets call it what it is) from AN more attractive for those who can afford it vs going the RMT route and all the possible issues that come with that.

Equally, while it would permanently make buying gems with gold more expensive, the price would never go up more than that and if you wanted to convert unused gems back, you would lose nothing on the trade-in. It also makes the trade between the two easy to understand.

Sure, at the lower levels, it would be harder to use the market, but at higher ends where gold is more prevalent, it creates a better money sink since not only are they spending more on gems but are more willing to do so if they know they can get that money back if they change their minds or have gems left after the desired store purchase is made.

I don’t understand, why not just set the price at 100 gems = 1 gold, buy or sell? It would encourage people to sell gems for gold while increasing the money sink for gold to gems and help undercut the profit of RMT. Like a lot of people that occasionally like a nice quick gold influx for a few bucks and don’t like to go the illegal route, it makes sense and if the price per 100 gems were a full gold, people would be more likely to buy them with RM rather than spend in game currency.

I fail to see the issue with this or how it’s ab-usable?

The last of 8 Ogre never comes. It was on 7/8 last night and it’s still on 7/8.