While I love the mounts and the skins, I don't understand why these new skins are only being sold in a randomized lootbox manner. For a game that focuses so heavily on player customizability-- dying armor, buying and dying outfits, buying and dying /gliders/-- it makes no sense for players not to be given their choice in selecting something as beautiful and wonderful as mount skins for themselves. It makes even /less/ sense for the one single mount skin you can buy in the store-- the warforged jackal-- to cost the exact same amount as the bundle of /5 Halloween/ mounts skins or of even the entire Path of Fire expansion itself! I love Guild Wars 2, but please, this really is in dire need of fixing. I vote relock the skins for now, refund any gems spent on the adoption contracts, and then let people choose exactly /which/ mounts they wish to buy. It would make the players a lot happier and you would still make plenty of money for just selling the mount skins directly rather than making it random chance where players could very likely end up only with skins that they don't like. Even if the skins cost slightly more as a result-- say the same amount as a glider or an outfit-- I think a lot of people would still prefer that option to what is currently happening. Also, that jackal skin seriously needs to get a price cut. 2000 gems for a skin is obscene.
While I love the mounts and the skins, I don't understand why these new skins are only being sold in a randomized lootbox manner. For a game that focuses so heavily on player customizability-- dying armor, buying and dying outfits, buying and dying /gliders/-- it makes no sense for players not to be given their choice in selecting something as beautiful and wonderful as mount skins for themselves. It makes even /less/ sense for the one single mount skin you can buy in the store-- the warforged jackal-- to cost the exact same amount as the bundle of /5 Halloween/ mounts skins or of even the entire Path of Fire expansion itself! I love Guild Wars 2, but please, this really is in dire need of fixing. I vote relock the skins for now, refund any gems spent on the adoption contracts, and then let people choose exactly /which/ mounts they wish to buy. It would make the players a lot happier and you would still make plenty of money for just selling the mount skins directly rather than making it random chance where players could very likely end up only with skins that they don't like. Even if the skins cost slightly more as a result-- say the same amount as a glider or an outfit-- I think a lot of people would still prefer that option to what is currently happening. Also, that jackal skin seriously needs to get a price cut. 2000 gems for a skin is obscene.