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Looks like it’s working again now.
Confirmed, I’m having the same problem.
You can trade bitcoin for real cash right? so you can already buy gems with bitcoin.
But if you do that than you’re just going back to the legacy financial system with all the problems and inefficiencies that come with it.
All currencies are “fake” to a certain extent — they are (in most countries) only backed by people’s faith in their issuing authority. In the case of bitcoin, there’s a distinct lack of faith.
I can certainly agree with you on the first part, fiat currency, or any currency for that matter only works as long as there’s confidences behind it. As for the lack of faith behind btc, you’ll have to explain a bit how you came to that conclusion because it isn’t congruent with what I am seeing.
For example, if there is a lack of faith as you suggest, the price would not be where it is at today. If there’s a lack of faith then there wouldn’t be new bitcoin startups popping up and in fact a whole bitcoin industry wouldn’t have come into existence at all.
Even if that wasn’t the case, ANet has explained that, for a variety of reasons, they have no plans to take payment in currencies other thkitten dollars, euros, and British pounds. It seems more likely that they’d add Aussie dollars, Yen, or other currencies that are used by a substantial fraction of the player base.
But things change, policies can change. I mean look at ebay, once a upon a time they forbid selling virtual currencies on their auction. But their singing quite a different tune today though.
And that’s without even getting into how many gems you could get for a bit coin.
See my reply above to Behellagh.
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But as I’ve pointed out in my original post here, ANet set the cost once for each currency and has not “floated” the price of Gems against any since. So 800 Gems would be about 1.6 BC back in 2012 would now be over $1000. Seems a little pricey.
A simple solution is to just pull the current spot market price from various exchanges and average the going rate; that is one possible solution. This could obviously be automated so this should not make it any more troublesome.
Knocking out a script to do this is trivial, I would know since I’ve done it; shouldn’t take more than a day.
Apparently you’re blind to the recent events with one of the more popular bitcoin sites going bankrupt and locking out “investors” from accounts worth hundreds of millions. Yes, Anet’s going to accept payment from a volatile, virtual, nonreal currency with a disgustingly large amount of risk over established mediums that transfer legitimate funds.
I fail to see what mtgox exchange going bankrupt has anything do with this? FYI, gox hasn’t been a popular exchange for a long time. If you were keeping up with the crypto-currency scene, of course you would know that already. But all that is besides the point — your argument is the same as saying because a bank or some important financial entity went belly up that we should stop using fiat.
Me and the OP have already suggested one solution on how to mitigate that risk by taking volatility out of the equation. Now if you have some other legitimate objection backed up with reasonable support that doesn’t amount to more FUD or hearsay then please feel free to add to the discussion.
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I would love for ANet to add this as a payment method since this is an ideal use-case scenario a cryptocurrency like bitcoin was designed for. I have suggested this over at reddit gw2 also but unfortunately, the gw2 community is rather closed-minded about the idea despite me debunking many of their false beliefs.
Now if only I could hear what one of the developers has to say in regards to accepting bitcoin…
Likewise, I would also like to hear Anet’s stance on the matter.
What you are asking for is too new anyway, regardless of the implications involved with BitCoin/LiteCoin/etc.
A couple years ago sure, but bitcoin is now 4+ years old so it’s hardly too new. In the crypto-community world, this timeframe is actually eons.
They don’t adjust with Euro to US Dollars and you expect them to set a price with a currency that fluctuates as much as Bitcoin?
The point you’re missing is that the btc exchange rate is actually irrelevant. You’re using btc as a means of exchange — if you exchange it back into fiat at the moment of transaction which substantially reduces volatility risk.
If this Bitpay service is so good then why don’t you use it so you can pay via one of the ways NCSOFT/ArenaNet already supports?
I looked at the OP’s post as Bitpay being one possible solution to make bitcoin integration seamless. It certainly isn’t the only solution and I don’t think the OP is saying ANet must use Bitpay.
Secondly, Bitpay only works if the merchant adopts it on their side. That is to say, customers and clients like us can’t just use Bitpay to convert btc->fiat because they’re not an exchange. Just like how you won’t be able to use a credit card at a grocery store if they don’t have visa/mastercard equipment setted up. Even if you could why would you even want to? It’s just not efficient.
. . . Its a influx way to launder Money and to pay for Crimes such as hits. Its a dirty Money business and does should NOT be used for things like GW2.
What you’re describing is guilty by association. Criminals wear shoes, they also drive cars. Terrorist are funded by oil. Does that mean law abiding citizens like us shouldn’t use these products because they are, afterall, dirty?
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If you’re really concerned about cost, you can keep your bank and character empty of any gold. This way if you do die, the nearest waypt will be free.
Sounds a lot like my request here.
As of this time there is no quick convenient way to perform this function. The only two ways I know of to unselect a target is using ‘esc’ key or left-cilcking on an empty spot, neither of which are ideal.
Using ‘esc’ is undesirable for two reasons: it’s out of the way at the corner of a normal keyboard and pressing it more than once will bring up the menu — which is unacceptable in the mist of battle.
Unselecting with the LMB isn’t ideal because it forces the player to find an empty spot in the environment to click on to deselect. This gets more difficult if there’s a lot of spells and particle effects going off. Additionally, depending on the physical mouse this isn’t as easy as pressing a simple keystroke.
Prior to the latest patch 10/7 (build 15,674) the stated limitation can be workaround by binding ‘target nearest ally’ to a key. If no target ally is nearby it would untarget your currently target. This is no longer the case with the latest patch.
fyi I’m getting this issue too. I also notice that the female human laugh sound is out of sync with the laughing animation itself. Many times, the laughing sound would just repeat a segment several times in an awkward fashion.
From what I recall, both of these were non-issues in BWE1 and BWE2. Can’t say for certain when it started happening.
Didn’t they say they were going to indicate this fee somewhere in the trading post UI so that it’s explicit?
Sounds like you’re getting level downscaled which will cause your hp to be lower for that area.