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dont know if its been suggested. but i would like the option to gift gems to other players. as i wanna reward my members who go out of there way to help the guild
I second this, I also found myself in the situation of wanting to be able to give gems to someone.
My need came out of wanting to get a shop item (Halloween minipet pack) as a gift for a friend who could not afford to buy the gems but really wanted the minipets. As I couldn’t buy the minis and send them (they’re account-bound), I would have really liked the ability to send that person the gems I bought (just as I can send gold). That way my friend could have used the gems to buy the minis and all would be good…
However, there’s no way to send gems except buying gold with them and sending that gold, which the receiver would convert back to gems. This however will result in a significant loss of gems due to the gem/gold exchange rate (a 30% loss in 300$ worth of gems would be quite upsetting). While I agree with the concept of ‘gold sinks’, I think forcing people to such a big gem loss to transfer gems to a friend or to another account is not right.
Then there’s the point originally made with rewarding guild members with gems, which would be simply FABULOUS. This would positively impact so many aspects related to guilds:
- Being in a guild rewards that guild with influence even if the member doesn’t represent, so I would like to reward people for staying in my guild and one way I would like to do that is with gems
- I could give people gems on holiday events (such as Halloween) to buy stuff for themselves from the shop
- I could give gems as prize for guild-hosted events, like scavenger hunts, guild contests, etc.
- Heck, if I feel generous I could give gems to random people, i.e. to promote Wintersday spirit and good mood, or to entice(you may read ‘bribe’) them to join my guild
- I could reward people with gems for being dedicated in sPvP or WvW and giving the guild a good name
All of the things mentioned above can indeed be done with gold (give gold as reward instead of gems), but that would be a much bigger hassle due to fluctuations in the gold/gem exchange rate.
Just imagine I give someone an amount of gold to buy gems to get their prize/reward and by the time they go buy the gems, the gold price for a gem goes up. They won’t get enough gems for their gold, won’t be able to claim their prize/reward, will be disappointed, might come back to me to send them more gold or in severe cases might even get so upset that they might leave my guild.
CONCLUSION: I see great benefit that could come from being able to send gems to another player, and I don’t see any ways of abusing this different than any way that may exist for abusing gold-sending.