Guild Wars 2

fizzypop.6458:

Karitan.3059:

Schakal.6091:

ANet didn’t lie, cheat or steal. Anyone who bets on getting something particular from a grab bag is just betting very bad odds. I will generally say that I believe adding stuff to BL Chests exclusively is a terrible idea. Everything else worthwhile you can get via those chests you can also buy directly if at possibly increased cost. However if Skins had been the same they would have had to make them untradeable or run the risk of creating a speculator’s market with people buying skins in bulk and flogging them for a fortune this summer.

In a way, it’s a fair solution. Not the only one, but a fair one.

Otherwise I generally agree with the OP. I work 50, 60 hour weeks at times, but I understand that nothing worth having is ever easily gained. Sure, they could have given everyone a token redeemable for one of the skins. Then everyone would have run around with chainsaw swords for a few weeks. And they’d have vanished when the next cool new thing rolled around. By keeping them rare you keep them special.

I do feel bad for those people who really want one but can’t or won’t gamble on one nor buy one off the TP. But I figure if they really want that skin, they’ll find a way to get it. If not, well, then I guess they didn’t want it after all.

It’s that simple. If everyone had everything, nothing and nobody would be special anymore. Which is why communism is so unappealing to a lot of westerners even though it’s the most humane system conceivable on paper. Not that it can actually work but that is another topic.

If anet makes holiday skins so easy to obtain, everyone will just have them in first day. Imagine everyone runs around swinging their chainsaw great sword and scythe staff.

So? who the eff cares if everyone has it? It’s a HOLIDAY! Have ya’ll forgot what it’s like to have fun? I think so.

no i don’t think so.

Schakal.6091:

ANet didn’t lie, cheat or steal. Anyone who bets on getting something particular from a grab bag is just betting very bad odds. I will generally say that I believe adding stuff to BL Chests exclusively is a terrible idea. Everything else worthwhile you can get via those chests you can also buy directly if at possibly increased cost. However if Skins had been the same they would have had to make them untradeable or run the risk of creating a speculator’s market with people buying skins in bulk and flogging them for a fortune this summer.

In a way, it’s a fair solution. Not the only one, but a fair one.

Otherwise I generally agree with the OP. I work 50, 60 hour weeks at times, but I understand that nothing worth having is ever easily gained. Sure, they could have given everyone a token redeemable for one of the skins. Then everyone would have run around with chainsaw swords for a few weeks. And they’d have vanished when the next cool new thing rolled around. By keeping them rare you keep them special.

I do feel bad for those people who really want one but can’t or won’t gamble on one nor buy one off the TP. But I figure if they really want that skin, they’ll find a way to get it. If not, well, then I guess they didn’t want it after all.

It’s that simple. If everyone had everything, nothing and nobody would be special anymore. Which is why communism is so unappealing to a lot of westerners even though it’s the most humane system conceivable on paper. Not that it can actually work but that is another topic.

If anet makes holiday skins so easy to obtain, everyone will just have them in first day. Imagine everyone runs around swinging their chainsaw great sword and scythe staff.

dehyphenated.1269:

I don’t think they lied. They did state that there’s a small chance for these special items to drop. People think that if the buy more keys their chance is higher. If the drop rate is 1% and you buy 10 keys the drop rate isn’t suddenly 10%, you just have more opportunities to try. Chests are a gamble. If you don’t like gambling buy one of the outfits.
Besides, if everyone got the cool new skins how special would they really be?

^ there you go, don’t gamble if you think this is not worth your gems.

I spent around 6000 gems, and i am not complaining.