The real question is…who cares?
What people do with their money is their business. Do you people with all the snide comments here wait in store line-ups and criticize the items complete strangers have in their shopping carts as being a “waste” or “not something you’d ever spend money on”. No, you don’t. This is the same thing here.
So…who cares what people spend their own money on?
It let me log back in finally
Me too. Just booted me off the game and won’t log back in
LOL……I was thinking this same thing. Would have been like a nice nostalgic 255 Rupees
Seems like most people in the gw2 community looking for a gear treadmill or ‘vertical progression’ haven’t actually been in a game with a gear treadmill.
I left the last MMO i was playing for mainly that reason, which I had played for 4 years. They kept adding tier after tier of new gear and if you wanted to compete in PvP you had to keep up, either by mindless grind day in and out of the same 2 instances (RNG, mind you) or throw hundreds/thousands of dollars at the cashshop to get it. It became a job. Either dedicate all my free time to trying to keep up to the gear treadmill or fall behind and get facerolled by people who have that kind of time or that kind of credit card.
gw2 and its more horizontal progression appeals to a large amount of people who do not have the time to invest in a gear treadmill.
I would rather see Anet and any developer of any MMO work on adding new content, events, instances, stories, areas to explore, more PvP/WvW content than mindlessly throw us new tiers of gear every 6 months or so that serves no purpose other than to keep the ‘hardcore’ entertained for a couple weeks farming it out.