Yes but you are overlooking full ticket drops. Yes they are like 1 in 50 chests but that drops the overall average per ticket down to around 1 in 20. So that drops it down to 320 chests per set or around $336. Of course there are periodic sales on keys, 20% off that would lower the monetary price even further.
Still more costly than any other gemstore set except for those that weren’t available for tickets in a really long time.
How pray tell is it the most expensive set if it’s only one ticket each? That’s the cheapest they can be.
That’s because exchanging gold to gems, buying keys, opening boxes, hoping for the ticket scraps/full tickets to drop, buying a skin has always been the least cost-effective way to obtaining those skins. With the added danger that RNG could be against you this time.
The same is true about the gemstore pack dyes when their set is on sale, btw.
The same is when you buy them for real cash, btw. Instead of using gems to buy what you want from gemstore, it has always been more cost-effective to exchange gems for gold and buy said thing directly from TP.
Well that’s always been true, converting gold to gems to keys is the more expensive way to get BL Tickets. But those skins on the TP don’t spontaneously generate, someone is opening chests with keys and with the demise of the key farm, well down to once a week per account, the majority of which were bought with gems that were in turn bought with cash. Because in the end gems are the only thing ANet is selling for cash.
So any skin you got for less than what $21 of gems converted to gold turned out to be on the TP, was posted there likely at a loss in terms of gold. So while you may have gotten it off the TP cheaper than doing the whole song and dance buying gems to keys and opening chests, someone did exactly that and paid that price.
I lead a simple life when it comes to inventory management. If it is not exotic and can be salvaged, it is and the mats sent to the collection tab in the bank. Rare upgrades are sold off on the TP with any mat overflow. Junk and masterwork upgrades are sold to merchant NPCs. It’s not rocket surgery.
Yes but you are overlooking full ticket drops. Yes they are like 1 in 50 chests but that drops the overall average per ticket down to around 1 in 20. So that drops it down to 320 chests per set or around $336. Of course there are periodic sales on keys, 20% off that would lower the monetary price even further.
Still more costly than any other gemstore set except for those that weren’t available for tickets in a really long time.
How pray tell is it the most expensive set if it’s only one ticket each? That’s the cheapest they can be.
Yes, binomial distribution can mean you have, out of 50 at 2%, a 36.4% chance of getting none. But it also means you have a 26.4% of getting more than 1.
There is a lot of players where 2 g a day IS a lot. They haven’t learned the lessons on how to get the maximum value from the loot they get as well as how to save what little gold they have. They don’t realize that simply clear cutting and strip mining mid level zones and selling those mats can make a fair bit of coin. This is especially true with their first character.
Yes but you are overlooking full ticket drops. Yes they are like 1 in 50 chests but that drops the overall average per ticket down to around 1 in 20. So that drops it down to 320 chests per set or around $336. Of course there are periodic sales on keys, 20% off that would lower the monetary price even further.
I feel gems are too expensive for 800, It should be more like 800 for $5.00 for the price of items in the store. Would you rather get more gems for your money or have items charge much less in the store. I know in AOC, I spent more money to spend in the stores because the cost was cheaper. Do you feel you would buy more if the cost went down?
This is what I was taught by one of my bosses that owned a sub shop. He used fresh steak cut from roasts every other day. Pizza dough made up every morning. Three cheeses on the pizzas, you would think that having top grade ingredients would cut too much into his profits. The subs were maybe 15 cents more for the steak and crab cakes. but because the were a good price and were great, more sold. This placed hopped daily and he made bank.
I feel if the gems were twice as many for the $10.00(1600), they would sell more. Or if the store dropped everything by half the cost of gems people would buy more.
Instead of the I love both dresses, which do I choose, its now I will get both and more because I feel I am over charged I will only get something if I am dying to get it, as if it was cheaper, all impulse buying would go ahead. Or I am nuts.
It’s been that price since the game’s launch. Since the purpose of the cash bought gems is to provide cash flow for the game and that hasn’t changed, why would they feel the need to reevaluate that ratio, 80 gems for $1€/0.85£ (note the Euro and Pound price includes a baked in 20% value added tax)? Did it suddenly become less expensive to develop and run the game?
And while true that there is a maximum for price x volume of sales, they do tweak this via weekly sales. We would likely never see an across the board sale, as in everything is X% off nor will we ever see a standalone discount on gems. Either of those would make me worry about the remaining life of the game.
12th or the 26th is my guess. 12th is 12 weeks after last one which was 12 weeks after the one before that. 26th would be 26 weeks after the winter one.
Well if GW2Efficiency represents a fair sample of players, the median (50% above/below) wallet gold is 115 gold. Even the 4000-4500 hour player median is just under 300 gold.
I think it’s unlikely GW2Efficency is a fair sample of players. You have to sign up to the site to be included, which means it’s mainly going to be people who see acquiring gold and valuable items as one of their goals and want to know how they’re doing at it and they’re likely to have more gold than most people. I’d bet the majority of players haven’t even heard of it, particularly the ones who just log in, play with their friends or solo and never visit the forums or follow the game in other ways.
But that’s the problem with trying to collect this type of data. It’s always going to only include a small sample of people and that sample may not be representative. The same is true of this topic as a whole. Even if everyone on the forum replied that only tells you what the type of people who visit the forum do.
Of course Anet have access to all the data. But they don’t share it with us.
Well 100K accounts isn’t all that small. But onto your point, if GW2Efficiency is used primarily for players who are interested in seeing their wealth, then the “low” amount of wallet gold really shows that 500 gold isn’t a paltry amount.
Well if GW2Efficiency represents a fair sample of players, the median (50% above/below) wallet gold is 115 gold. Even the 4000-4500 hour player median is just under 300 gold.
oh, i’ve seen that, and it is very poorly done. nearly worthless.
the reason is that you do not have a clear picture of what it takes on the three precursor weapons. none at all. for example, try to go there and tell me what it actually takes to get the leaf of kudzu I. i will tell you:
just for the stave, it takes 20 spiritwood planks. but what does that REALLY mean in terms of sheer materials?
softwood: 2 logs make one plank. you need 20 planks per spiritwood plank. so you need 40 logs for one spiritwood plank, or 800 logs for all 20.
see what i mean?
800 softwood logs
600 seasoned wood logs
1200 hard wood logs
20 ectoplasm
200 thermo regents
100 memories of battle
100 shards of glory
3000 elder logs
nowhere on your list does it show that i need 3000 elder wood logs to make leaf of kudzu I.
my list shows the total root materials needed. much more valuable.
It’s available from the wiki. In the recipe box that lists the four items for the Mystic Forge you need, there is a like “show base ingredients” which brings up the above link and a detail breakdown of the lowest base materials needed with their near current high bid.
1st reply asked for that and they haven’t been willing to share so …
And yes the FX-4xxx series was designed to target the i3 series, being a CPU that can run 4 threads simultaneously but only has two FPUs. Sadly AMD marketing had other ideas.
July 12th will be 12 weeks since the last one which was the gap between Winter and Springs quarterly update. July 26th would be 26 weeks after the Winter quarterly update.
The only “official” statement about LWS3 was it would come after the last part of the raid wing got pushed.
And MO stated before the April quarterly update that they weren’t going to do the whole hype train thing they did with HoT for that update so it’s possible that the only hype we get is a week, maybe two before it goes live. How much additional damage was done to HoT by first working the player base into a frenzy with the constant hype train.
It went up in early May due to the recipe change for squares. No real change in the last month other than it’s daily cycle. except possibly a slight downward trend on average.
Those Dye Kits are almost always a 24% chance for (shadow was much higher) so it’s not all that unlikely to not get one of the special dyes from just two tries.
It is your opinion that HoT didn’t meet your personal expectations. Please don’t presume to speak for the rest of us.
they objectively couldn’t deliver what they have promised.
The expansion was supposed to come out with a full raid and a set of new legendaries out of the box. So many months in, new legendaries got outright canceled and the raid is only getting finished right now.
That’s a graph showing the trend of the exchange rate. This one is Gold to Gems but Gems to Gold tracks with it.
Holding on to excess gems is your choice. Just be aware that converting Gold to Gems and back to Gold will be a loss unless you converted back when Gold to Gems was much, much cheaper.
They aren’t holding anything to release against Legion. It makes no sense to joust against that 800 lbs gorilla in the first place and in the second, the quarterly updates come quarterly.
A quarter is roughly 13 weeks but ANet tends to publish a patch every two so say 12 to 14 weeks, 84 or 98 days.
Winter Quarter Update was Jan 26th, the Spring Quarterly was April 19th which was 12 weeks later. Now that would put the Summer Quarterly around July 12th or 26th. Legion is due at the end of August so likely at least a month before Legion.
It looks as if the 32-bit client is crashing after it starts up the 64-bit client successfully. Also if I force just the 32-bit client it’s fine as well. It’s just during the post start up of the 64-bit one.
And it’s a matter of asset dev-hours between doing an outfit and an armor set. They have only so many of these to “spend” and if they can do a dozen or more outfits, each for 700 gems a year Vs two to four armor sets at 800 gems, what makes more economical sense? That’s the reason they limited armor sets to expansion content now. It’s too much of a resource hog to make.
They vaguely warn you by listing “unique” in the area of the item popup devoted to equip limitations like “soulbound” and “account bound”. A common definition of unique is one of.
Do we really need a “oh no, not another outfit” thread every time. They’ve said that’s what we are going to get from now on in the store. They’ve said that armor sets take a whole lot more work to do which is why we don’t see them in the store anymore.
Fine, I know there’s a segment who hate them. You are always going to hate. We get it. But I find them fine for leveling.
The game uses multiple cores but, like all software, becomes capped at the speed one thread can execute so instructions per second is important. On the other hand there are enough threads to keep more than two physical cores busy so a true quad core like the i5 is better than an i3 with it’s two physical cores but four logical cores because of hyperthreading.
I think you need to look at it with a healthy dose of perspective. A.Net is not a publicly traded company tasked with maximizing return on equity to shareholders. It’s a private company owned by millionaire veterans of the game industry that want to run a company that they like working at – and if that resembles a kindergarten classroom of passionate artists and designers doing what they love, then so be it.
Except ArenaNet is wholly owned by a holding company that is wholly owned by a publicly traded company. I’m sure they got a really good deal from the point of view of control and retained IP ownership when they sold themselves to NCSOFT in 2002 but they are assuredly NOT privately owned. And while they don’t answer directly to shareholders, they will be reminded that the game needs to either maintain or grow its player base as well as be profitable at least on paper, at some minimal level, to keep those at the mothership in Seoul happy.
Other than that point I agree with you. They are developing entertainment, not an office application. It’s not just programming, it’s story and scripting and 3D Models and animation and music and foley and voice overs. It’s developing tools that non-programmers can use to build events and create AI (http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021848/Building-a-Better-Centaur-AI). And sometimes in this process what gets created turns out not to be fun to play and parts or all will be scraped to go in a different direction. That’s bound to tick some off, having weeks or even months of work set aside.
The game isn’t raid centric, it’s just that the raid development and release schedule started well before HoT’s launch and was small enough to be released every 3 months. But HoT’s issues set the rest of ANet back on their heals. That set them scrambling to fix issues while LSW3 got delayed while they reconsidered what went wrong.
It’s usually not failing is more rewarding but that the event resets quickly to farm again.
Now from a design aspect, a quickish reset for a multi event meta makes sense so you can try it again to move on to the next, the ultimate goal is getting to the end of the meta for the bigger reward. The design presumption is that players WANT to get to the end of the meta.
Now the two fixes for failure abuse is either bumping the reset timer up so the loot/hour is less attractive and those players abusing it move onto something else or you eliminate drops (and possibly XP) from the event spawned mobs and improve the reward for completion but with some participation tracking so leechers don’t crash the last minute for rewards.
It’s not that it’s a bad design, it’s that the devs expect players to listen to their better angels.
I make a good “living” buying armor off the TP and salvaging them for mats. And it’s not that RNG when salvaging in large quantities as the output is fairly predictable.
Dragonite isn’t an issue with me but bloodstone dust which I have over 45 stacks of. I’m roughly 2/3rds the way through crafting Mawdrey but stuck at fighting the dragon minion in LWS2 at the Pale Tree.
That said getting Princess was fun, well except the one in Lion’s Arch in the JP. JPs are rarely easy for me.
I would imagine different skins locked behind various game modes but the functionality be available from other game modes in the future, once they get it worked out for raiders.
Honestly, if you don’t care for raids then don’t do them. I have plenty to do as a “casual” player that I haven’t really tried yet and I’ve been here since Dec 1, 2012. With the fixes to HoT, I can look forward to finally play those maps even though I pre-ordered HoT and only scratched the surface enough to unlock gliding and working toward auto-loot.
PvE non-raid content is coming and will likely be out with the July quarterly patch. I’m not upset at ANet for first fixing many of the issues with HoT first.
Then what’s next? Legendary weapons? Ascended weapons and armor? No, you have to equip harvesting tools just like armor and weapons. You can’t use them out of your inventory and that’s what shared slots are, shared INVENTORY slots.
This was one of the first things players wanted when shared inventory slots first came out.
