Guild Wars 2

Hello John Smith,

Other games that I have played which have in-game exchange markets for cash currency for in-game currencies are Eve Online and Star Trek Online. Although I played these games only after they were well established, I feel that the Cash to Gold exchange rate is artificially low and disincentives me to actually purchase Gold through your market at current rates. I’ll make plenty of use of the gold to crystal conversion though, as I feel this is a good deal.

I don’t mind paying for cash shop items and currency, and enjoy the ability to do so in other games. However, it’s much easier to farm gold in the game and exchange for crystals at this point in time. I don’t really mind this, I will naturally gravitate towards whatever is the most efficient. A free market may better balance this, and I’m sure you can tell from your own data whether more people are buying crystals or exchanging for them using gold. I’m sure that Arenanet is losing out on some revenue if more crystals are being generated by the system to be exchanged for in-game gold rather than cash.

At the same time I feel cash shop items would benefit from having a lower cost. I think more people would purchase these items. One of the reasons the mobile app gaming market is doing so well is because the cost of the game is a buck or two and it’s underneath a decision making threshold of having to debate or justify the purchase. I feel that many pc games go in the wrong direction, pricing their cash shop content at a premium while losing the opportunity to sell more units at a lower cost.

Those are just some of my thoughts and I hope it is useful.

I can’t seem to find this information anywhere. Is there a way to reobtain the same skin of the starting armor? I think some of them look quite nice, ankittenhinking about having the skins on my level 80 armor. Unfortunately, I’ve long since have thrown them out.

Can I just purchase level 1 armor from a vendor somewhere and they will look the same? Thanks for the help.

Sorry I’ll move this question to Players helping Players. Can someone delete this post?

I constantly find myself thinking, while trying to play the game:
“Hmm. I’m getting less drops than before. Am I hitting diminishing returns? I would fight that mob over there but there’s no point, I’m not getting any drops after that last event.” It’s not fun to think about and I shouldn’t have worry about DR mechanics. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

I’d rather have fun. For me, it’s not at all about ‘give me more loot’ but the game deincentivizes me to keep playing after a certain point. I would rather get constant drops over the course of my play, than have a period of many drops and then a period where I might as well not be playing and incentivized to run past everything aggroing me because that zombie over there just isn’t worth killing anymore compared to just 15 minutes ago…

I think some of the starting armors from character creation look really good. Can I purchase them somewhere from a merchant as basic armor and will it be the same models or are they gone to the abyss when I deleted them?

As someone who enjoys playing many alts, rather than a single character, this would increase my enjoyment of the game greatly!

It breaks game immersion.