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Flesh, the issue wasn’t whether you were right or wrong (I know folks do occasionally make odd purchases, like some with thematic approaches to their gathering tools) it was rather the relevancy of their purchases.
They’ve chosen to purchase based on a subjective viewpoint (aesthetics) and there is nothing wrong with that. The issue lies in selling an objectively better item for the same price as a previous item. Hell, if it was as simple as 1100 gems for that pick, so be it.
Illconceived, thanks for the heads up – I’m guessing I failed at searching or the search still sucks, lol
Again – there is NOTHING wrong with new or different products, the issue is the pricing scheme. This is also (mostly) a rant thread rather than an “OMG DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS” thread. I don’t expect anything special for me or other people who bought our stuff back in the day (although it’d be nice, and a suggestion was added), but I do want to make my “complaint” for lack of a better word.
Given that there have been threads already made, I imagine there is not much point in belaboring the issue then, Ill?
that has nothing to do with what I was saying though, that’s an argument on aesthetics.
fair enough, that was my misunderstanding on the wasp axe – statement still stands on me being miffed about the watchwork pick =)
flesh and astral, you DO realize that they aren’t selling multiple gathering tools to the same people, right? About a year ago they made infinite tools account bound, you can use them on ALL of your characters, but you have to send the single item around (which is a nuisance, but such is life)
Why would Anet do that? That’s 1000 less gems that’ll have to be spent on getting a gathering tool that has more benefits than the rest of them.
I DO think that they should mention on the watchwork pickaxe in the gem store that it has a chance to give additional mats when mined with, so people would be aware of their decisions.
Players should have all the information they need to make an informed decision, and when Anet screws up with a tooltip or something of that matter, that doesn’t inform a player when it should, then that’s what needs to be changed, not anything else.
Khajiit, I agree with you if a player was to choose one over the other when both are simultaneously available, or at least are known to exist. Molten Alliance Mining pick, the Chop-it-all Logging axe, etc. were all released at a specific price point (1000 gems). (I assume) tons of folks including myself purchased it/them, and don’t regret it. To release a completely and unequivocally better option at the same price later is somewhat insulting, though. They did exactly this by more recently releasing a logging axe (frost wasp?) that gives snowflakes, and a mining pick (watchwork pick) that gives watchwork sprockets. These were released at the same price as items that “do less.” That’s the issue.
I get that it is a relatively moot point, as I don’t think anyone with a MAM or other infinite gathering regrets their decision to purchase back when they were put out originally (I know I don’t regret it) it just leaves a sour taste in one’s mouth to see the same pricing for something better (barring disputes on aesthetics, of course)
So, if I understand what you are asking.
If I buy one set, all my chars get a set? Even if I have the max number of possible chars (64), they all get a free set? No extra charge for having sets they can also use?
Your other suggestion, I’m not sure exactly what you are asking but it sounded like you wanted to know, if you have set A and set B comes out in the store, you wanted a way to convert the animation to set B? If so, how many gems would this cost?
Flesh, the side issue (just me being lazy) is that for instance: I bought a molten alliance mining pick waaaaaay back when it came out and I’m super happy I can share it across characters now (it was originally for one character), why not treat it like the zenith skins so each character on the account has access to it rather than having to re-bank the account bound item depending on who I’m playing.
First, the required disclaimer: Devs, I searched to see if this was a duplicate but the search sucks and I saw no such duplicates. If it is a duplicate, delete/merge and life goes on!
Now then, I’m a bit miffed with all these fancy infinite gathering tools that keep getting released. I own a Chop-it-all, a Molten Alliance Mining Pick, and the Consortium harvesting tool. They’re great, it’s nice to have them and even nicer now that they are account bound and I can share them across my account.
(Side issue: laziness and is not part of this topic, but I’m venting anyway – why not just allow us to equip a copy on each character on our account? It can get annoying when you have every character maxed/nearly maxed to have to find which character it is on and shuffle stuff around)
Now, my actual issue is that there are now tools that have been added with different aesthetics (fine) and some MORE that give a small chance of bonus special materials but cost the same as our now-inferior gem store tools. What’s the deal here? Can we either have some brief window to convert ours to these same-priced items with added benefits, or have some ninjapatch to existing purchases to add in their own signature gathering chance (I won’t theorize on what stuff they should give, it’s mostly a principle thing for me!)
Alright folks, have at it/me, flame on/discuss/whatever. I’m just venting something that has irritated me ever since these were released!
I’ll chime in as well. I’ve an active ticket with support, and have gotten similarly unhelpful responses thus far. I’m definitely having an issue early on with a hop through CenturyLink/Qwest, but the hops that correlate with extremely unplayable input latency are within the NCsoft IPs (64…) and the Verizon business account gateway linking that network to the wider world. I’ve requested a response from a supervisor and have given them reams of data. If I remember this thread, I will add updates as applicable.