Guild Wars 2

Ashen.2907:

Just to clarify,

The complaint is that something’s price went down a couple of years after it was released?

Is there a consumer product where this is not the norm?

Wrong, to clarify:

The complaint is that gem store exclusive items should stay gem store exclusive items.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

The OP probably agrees with those who think their purchase of GW2 was trivialized by including the core game with the purchase of HoT and by offering it as play-for-free to the masses.

Incorrect, try reading the whole first post next time.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Finally, how are you equating 35 bubbles to 5.25 gold? I have 5.25 gold — who do I give that to for 35 bubbles so I can get a mini moto? The fact that basic skins can be acquired for X gold doesn’t mean that a bubble is worth X/35 gold. Time invested certainly doesn’t equate to a certain amount of gold (if it did, sentrying in WvW would be a lot more popular) and just because some people can and are willing to run SAB quickly doesn’t mean that most people can.

Fine I will change that. 35 bauble baubles is worth no gold; they are a worthless item that is so easy to get. If you can’t use a time based measure to calculate the worth of a currency you can earn when nothing from the currency is sell able then the currency is worthless.

Maximillian Greil.1965:

Why is his complaint being trivialized? This is ridiculous, he has a point. Agree, or disagree, don’t just tell him “oh think of it another way.” The fact is he spent money on something that he could have gotten later for much less money. Kinda how I feel about heart of thorns… but I digress.

I personally don’t agree with him, but I won’t trivialize his argument.

Thanks, even though you disagree with me.

Danikat.8537:

(By the way, was it really necessary to capitalize every instance of the word ‘gem’? I doubt I’m the only one who reads capitals as shouting, which makes posts like this seem very aggressive.)

Most likely due to the fact I have been going through lots of old documents at work mostly dealing with a database system they used to use called GEMS before it was decommissioned about 10 years ago. Been typing it so much of late I just kept going.

Support said this was the correct place to put this so here is my complaint. I wish to complain that you guys have added expensive GEM store items into the game for little to no in game currency (SAB boom boxes were 800 gems each and now you are just giving them away for 35 bauble baubles (which is about 5.25gold)): Nothing makes people happier than trivializing their purchases! You could of just put them back into the GEM store even at a discount and people would of purchased them and not complained, but giving them away for pretty much free makes me feel ripped off and kittened off.

I won’t be putting any more money into GEMs from now on since there is no guarantee that GEM store items stay as GEM store items. I just can’t trust ANET anymore.

Notes:
One dungeon path = 30 silver. Time wise 1 zone in SAB world 1 (2 bauble baubles), = a dungeon path; a zone in world 2 trib mode (4 bauble baubles); = 2 dungeon paths. Thus 2 bauble baubles = 30 silver, and 35 baubles = 5.25 gold. This is ignoring the `150ish normal baubles you get per trib path, which I am ignoring since dungeons get dungeon tokens. I haven’t even tried to get bauble baubles and I already have over 150 not counting the ones left over from last time SAB was around. Can’t use wigs and dresses as a measure since they are a non renewable resource.

Different from peoples free to play argument since free accounts (have many limits) is not equal to a paid account (have extra benefits).

Editing to add this: Some people seems to be missing the point so here is the complaint broken down into one line: The complaint is that gem store exclusive items should stay gem store exclusive items.