Meowatatonic.1738

I am beer'd and ready to type. (no repeats eh?) I can say without a doubt that you already have your answer. The gambling-loot-box system needs to go. I already rambled-off a few ideas about how this could be done and they were (admittedly) a tad over complicated. Easiest way to do this would be to immediately refund everyone's purchase. Alter the mount system so that the player can choose the mount they want when they buy an adoption ticket. Keep the price of the adoption ticket at 400 gems and then roll the system back out. My beer isn't even finished...guess I'll go get my daily and say gross things in mapchat.

I was actually surprised that this style of loot boxes made it into GW2. Up until now everything has been fair and obtainable. You like the glowing shiny? here it is, spend 400 gems and it's yours. Also, it's been very easy to farm for skins you wanted. Find the farm you like the most, spend an hour running in the hamster-wheel and now you have enough gold to buy the shiny. With this adoption system, you could spend money 4, 5 or 10 times before you actually get the skin you want and it's the most absurd thing they have put in the game. It ruins the good work that the developers have done (skins really do look good). I honestly thought that this mantra of being able to get what you wanted through minimal farming or minimal moneys was going to keep going. I hope they listen to the players and change it.

Thanks for writing this, been seeing more well written replies than flaming. It 's really disappointing that this loot box system has made into gw2 now. Getting to choose what skin you want for 400 gems a pop for these would be great, not this random "maybe you'll kick the football this time!" shenanigans.

Up until now everything in this game could be obtained just by playing the game, not even having to farm for long periods of time. That's one of the things GW2 has had over not just every MMO, but every game that has micro-transactions. You had the ability to pay once and get what you want. With this loot box system you're going to spend your real money many times on the CHANCE that you might get the skin you like. How many times is it going to be? 4 times? 10 times? more than that? $120 dollars? This wouldn't be bad if you could pay once, take your 400 gems, grab the skin you want and off you go... but no. You had to put this garbage in a perfectly good game that had a respectful micro-transaction system. Please take this system out ANET. If there are players who have paid for multiple individual adoption mounts, give them two options: You can pick whatever skin you want for as many individual mount licences that you bought OR choose to have you money refunded and the skins you didn't want become locked. For the people who bought the whole friggin thing, that will just depend on whether or not they want anything refunded. I know that there are going to be people who jump on this as an opportunity for pro-active shenanigans. Flaming, being needlessly rude to ANET and it's employees, etc... I really like this game and as an MMO, this is my home. I want people who don't like this adoption mount system to be pro-active about voicing their opinion, but please(please) don't take the potential for making a change and ruin by being vile. If they want to make money off of mount skins that's absolutely fine. But not with this poisonous, loot box, gambling system. Give people a choice to choose the skins they want.