Guild Wars 2

SlayerGT.6805:

Thanks for the update Gaile. It’s relieving to see you guys do listen to reason and player opinions.

Do not be fooled!
This was damage control due to major gaming sites bashing Areanet for this mess!

Read: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Lets-talk-about-the-new-Gem-conversion-Merged/page/37#post4508789

I linked the articles there!

@redux

Shouldnt this allready be clear as crystal.

The US-Cash-Cow disagrees with every of your suggestions!

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2k0cda/gem_conversion_changes_discussion/

With even Dulfy posting against the change!

Gilgalas.7860:

Hello Gaile,

Thanks to you and the whole team for the update and for listening to our feedback (not that I ever doubted that contrarily to many here).

Despite what many say here and on reddit, I appreciate a lot Anet ability to listen to feedback and take steps accordingly. I can’t say so of most other studio.

Regards

They (Arenanet) did NOT listen to our feedback. They where dismanteled by the critics of major gaming sites and had to make a move not to be totally crushed!

http://kotaku.com/guild-wars-2-players-angry-over-currency-exchange-chang-1649519173

http://www.tentonhammer.com/editorial/guild-wars-2-gemgate

The critic of tentonhammer regarding the handling of this incident is devasting, and rightfully so!

Arenanet only learns the hard way!
Cheers!

Wetpaw.3487:

Revenue down, squeeze the community w/o adding anything substantial for us to support.
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http://www.tentonhammer.com/editorial/guild-wars-2-gemgate

Keep up the good work NCsoft, I can see your making a great name for yourself with Wildstar and GW2.

This was all Arena Net (Americans). NC-Soft does no longer have a saying within GW2 as far as I know!

Gaile Gray.6029:

fellyn.5083:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Hey there,

Here are a few tidbits from the team:

• A lot of newer players had trouble with the interface. That doesn’t apply to you, you’re veterans who have been around the conversion block a time or two. But newer players will benefit from the updated system.
• The goal was to make the Gem Store more like other shopping experiences, and if you think about it, there is more of that feel to it now.
• You may be surprised to know this (I know I was) but very few people bought gems at smaller denominations than the first one offered in the new system. That’s not to say they never did, nor that there wouldn’t be the desire to do so. But overall, the current options were selected based on player purchases in the past.
• The team is going to listen to your feedback and, if and when it’s practical and desirable, they can look towards adjusting the new system to better meet your needs.

So please keep your thoughts coming on the new system. Feel free to make suggestions but please, keeping them constructive would be very much appreciated.

And yet in the history of this forum there has never been a post saying “the gem exchange interface is confusing me as a new player” or anything similar.

Really? You’re 100% certain there’s never been such a post? Good for you, then!

Concerns of this nature come in via tickets, when someone takes the wrong step, buys too many times, isn’t able to process the acquistion or exchange, etc. By the time someone’s on the forums, they’re usually comfortable with the systems.

So the best way to complain is not to write here but to write a ticket?

Ok! You can have this!

Please check back with your “LEGAL Department” if it is allowed to sell currency for real money and have a tiny bit of it beeing unusable. If the lowest conversion rate is 1g=8Gems and i have 7 Gems left over this would be a fault in the sold currency.

This might be not allowed by the country specific laws, for example in Germany i am quite sure i could demand a refund for the 7 gems in real money or revoke the full transaction as your product comes with a unfixable fault.

Try to considere this. Thank you!

This is the worst update i’ve seen in a long time in any mmo game!

It does give Anet more money apparently but it’s just a kick in the face for all the faithfull customers that did not flock to WoW, ArchAge, Tera, Wildstar or any other mmo that GW2 is in a competition these days.

To see such unthought and blatant changes make me very mad! kitten you Anet! What do you think you are?

Can you please take serious measure for the person that invented this new system!

Oh I never intended to say you should pay for it.

I said: It will be a win win situation. This is cause opening up the Headslot to work with Costumes will probably make them sell more Headslot Items in the Gem-Shop.

As you can see the possibility allready exists ingame!

You can unclick and click the checkmark of your headslot and it will override the “headslot” of your Outfit with your current armor-headslot.

Of course this does not carry over to the game itself, it only appears in the Preview Window of your Hero Wardrobe!

But it is there! Let us do it Arena Net!

Proof Picture!

JoeytheHutt.1742:

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I have lvled a couple of alts in this new system, didnt really notice any big difference, but knowing where to go, what to do and how to gear up possibly made up for missing traits.

I leveld 4 80s in the old system starting with the very fist beginning and i can asure you there is a big difference.

If you need to “make up” for something you just said yourself its worse now, cause if you did everything right before you would be faster.

A big no no is how it feels to have no traits and how this stalled your gameplay and greaved diversity.

But good to hear they actually once see they made a mistake.

1) Headslot Modifiaktions enabled + Outfit enabled

2) Disable Backpack of Engineer Skills

3) Old Level System (The current just faks up new players totally)

I just came back from a long pause and i recognized:

Leveling got the shaft big time!

Traits got delayed to later levels. Which makes you feel totally noob and weak if you were used to the old system.

I rather not imagine how bad this must feel for any new player! Totally sucks to level up right now!

Was there any explanation why the heck did they decide to kitten leveling and discourage new players from playing this game that way?

There must be someone totally out of control in the development department, right?

Dear Anet,

could you please consider allowing headslot modifications to override the complete Outfits you sale in the gem shop? So that you can weare a headslot modification on Top of an Outfit?

Reason:

Some of the Outfits do not come with special head modifications, for example the “Ancestral Outfit”.

Therefore it would be good to be able to activate the headslot for some more Flavor, like saying a Bandana, a Facemask or Glowing Eyes.

More likely more People would buy Outfits and headslot modifications, and as you offer both to a certain extend, the change would be a so called “win-win”-Situation.

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