Guild Wars 2

Hi Gasoline,

Please don’t think I am a troll. I’ll try to explain clearly and without any aggression. There are many people with the amount of gold as you who want the Hunter; unfortunately, there are not enough Hunters to go around. Thus, people are willing to pay more for their Hunter, so that they have priority over people like yourself. This process keeps continuing, and the price keeps rising.

ArenaNet can not fairly fix this, since it is not a problem. It is regular market forces. If ArenaNet tried to cap the price of the Hunter, say at 200g, then there would be way too many people willing to buy the Hunter, but not enough Hunters. How would ArenaNet distribute the precursors then? By time played, achievement points, etc? No, that is not fair to people with different playing styles.

The most logical way to distribute the item is by giving it to the highest bidder- the one who is willing to part with the most gold for the precursor. What you are seeing is very natural; you may be upset, but the fact is, some people also want the item you want, but they have a lot more money to spend on it. If a scavenger hunt or such were introduced, more supply would enter the market, and price would go down.