Guild Wars 2

I don’t mind that landing a precursor on average is extremely expensive (let’s say on average 500 gold in its current state). Arenanet has chosen micro-transactions as a business model and thus has to ensure people continue buying gems → gold.

My issues with the system are twofold. One, it is continuously more difficult to get a precursor as time passes. No one will deny that if you were on top of the legendary quest from the beginning you had a much easier time obtaining it than current players, whether it is because precursors were cheap, the karka event, pre “stealth” nerfs etc. How could a legendary hopeful not take offense to the fact that player A waving his legendary around now put 1/5th the effort that he can expect to?

Secondly, using RNG for any part of the process is just flat out irresponsible. Why should one player receive the precursor “on my first try with the mystic forge! lolz” while another spends 550 gold, representing most likely his entire playing career, getting nothing? I really feel for the op as I can only imagine how frustrating that an experience this must have been. Is there any reason not to have a fixed price for fairness to the entire player population? I fear that the only reason is you can stealth nerf RNG to your heart’s content without definitive evidence to the contrary, but the players will quickly notice when that fixed price is suddenly 5 times what it used to be XD.