Guild Wars 2

This is quite a low blow to the community. I’m sure most of us understand the reasoning behind this, the employees at ArenaNet need money to stay alive, but the way this was handled is very dissapointing. Not sure if this was an initiative from anet’s part of NCSoft (I want to believe it was from NC). It’s a sneaky method of charging more for a service that surely wasn’t doing that bad (as in, the previous gem system was profitable). It’s a huge change to an established system, that came completely out of nowhere and diminishes versatility and accessibility to the players, and even removes some sense that the company cares for its player base. It’s going from a democratic system to a dictatorship, where we are ruled by a blind, idiotic capitalist.

I had made the decision to start buying 2000 gems every month, or at least every 2 months, as a way to contribute to the game, the company and especially its employees, but this change is making have serious doubts about that. Being forced into something is not pleasing to your costumer’s anet.

Also, at least be frontal about stuff like this… Enough with “dumbing things down for your own sake”.

As for suggestions: At least give us more options on the amount of gems we can buy with gold. Make increments of 25 gems up until 100 gems (25, 50, 75, 100, 400…). Also, the money (real money) to gem ratio in the store does not add up to the options available in gem cards, why not revise that and have more people buy from the ingame gem store, instead of having to resort to a 3rd party?