In the last years I have gladly spent money on this game, since it doesn't have a monthly fee and since I know the people of Arenanet can't live just from love, air and positive reviews. A company needs to make money, simple as that. However, the last gemshop update disappointed me a lot and I have decided to not support it with a single cent. Here we go: 2k Gems for a single mount is way overpriced, no matter how sparkly.Out of 30 Skins I am only interested in 10. I am not gonna gamble, it's just a big no. My problem is not RNG in general (even tho RNG sucks), my problem is how we're not given any alternative besides "if you don't like RNG, just buy them all". I am not gonna spend more than a 100 bucks and basically pay for 20 skins that I am not even remotely interested in, just to get the 10 I actually like.I would price them roughly 400 for a random skin, 500 for a skin of your choice. You could even make an option for 450, where you get three random skins and you can choose your favorite out of those three. Every now and then you could toss in a really awesome new mount skin and make it 700-800 gems. This would be my preferred solution and hell I would spend a lot of money on this - but on stuff that I want, not on the chance to have stuff that I want.If you do stick to the rng-lootboxes only, at least make the skins not account-bound, so we can sell them at the TP, trade them and give them to friends, if we got a skin they desired and we don't want it anyways. Let the community/economy decide which skins are worth how much.Another option: Make the lootboxes obtainable in game, just as in Overwatch or Hearthstone where you get them simply for playing. This way you can still get everything, it will just take some patience. The eager people can still pull out their wallet to buy more lootboxes for real money.But I am not only disappointed by the choice to lock mount skins behind lootboxes: I think it was a cheap move to release the original mounts with only 1 dye panel.It upsets me massively how there have been a great total of 36 mount skins available in the gemshop, but not a single one can be obtained in game (yet), not even the very simple skins which just have a different fur-marking. This gets even worse looking at the feedback for PoF, because quite a lot of people complain about having nothing to work towards anymore even tho the expansion has only shipped a few weeks ago. Making some skins available in game could have been a great goal to work towards for lots of people.It upsets me even more that you can get mount skins of legendary quality (e.g. Starbound) in the gemshop, instead of getting them as a reward for a finished collection, as an achievement for successfully managing a somewhat difficult content or maybe even crafting them. There are tons of possibilities. If I have a fancy mount skin like that I want to feel like I earned it, and I want other people to know that I worked hard for this skin. I want to be proud to have this sparkly mount skin unlocked. So it feels like a wasted opportunity to have epic skins like that on the gemshop and the only thing needed to get them is a full wallet.Arenanet, please reconsider the choice you've made. I have recommended Guild Wars 2 to quite a lot of friends as a customer-friendly game with reasonable monetisation. It's the reason I myself chose to play this game instead of WoW. Please don't make me regret playing, advertising and spending money on your game - it would be such a shame, since so far I've really loved the experience.
In the last years I have gladly spent money on this game, since it doesn't have a monthly fee and since I know the people of Arenanet can't live just from love, air and positive reviews. A company needs to make money, simple as that. However, the last gemshop update disappointed me a lot and I have decided to not support it with a single cent. Here we go: 2k Gems for a single mount is way overpriced, no matter how sparkly.Out of 30 Skins I am only interested in 10. I am not gonna gamble, it's just a big no. My problem is not RNG in general (even tho RNG sucks), my problem is how we're not given any alternative besides "if you don't like RNG, just buy them all". I am not gonna spend more than a 100 bucks and basically pay for 20 skins that I am not even remotely interested in, just to get the 10 I actually like.I would price them roughly 400 for a random skin, 500 for a skin of your choice. You could even make an option for 450, where you get three random skins and you can choose your favorite out of those three. Every now and then you could toss in a really awesome new mount skin and make it 700-800 gems. This would be my preferred solution and hell I would spend a lot of money on this - but on stuff that I want, not on the chance to have stuff that I want.If you do stick to the rng-lootboxes only, at least make the skins not account-bound, so we can sell them at the TP, trade them and give them to friends, if we got a skin they desired and we don't want it anyways. Let the community/economy decide which skins are worth how much.Another option: Make the lootboxes obtainable in game, just as in Overwatch or Hearthstone where you get them simply for playing. This way you can still get everything, it will just take some patience. The eager people can still pull out their wallet to buy more lootboxes for real money.But I am not only disappointed by the choice to lock mount skins behind lootboxes: I think it was a cheap move to release the original mounts with only 1 dye panel.It upsets me massively how there have been a great total of 36 mount skins available in the gemshop, but not a single one can be obtained in game (yet), not even the very simple skins which just have a different fur-marking. This gets even worse looking at the feedback for PoF, because quite a lot of people complain about having nothing to work towards anymore even tho the expansion has only shipped a few weeks ago. Making some skins available in game could have been a great goal to work towards for lots of people.It upsets me even more that you can get mount skins of legendary quality (e.g. Starbound) in the gemshop, instead of getting them as a reward for a finished collection, as an achievement for successfully managing a somewhat difficult content or maybe even crafting them. There are tons of possibilities. If I have a fancy mount skin like that I want to feel like I earned it, and I want other people to know that I worked hard for this skin. I want to be proud to have this sparkly mount skin unlocked. So it feels like a wasted opportunity to have epic skins like that on the gemshop and the only thing needed to get them is a full wallet.Arenanet, please reconsider the choice you've made. I have recommended Guild Wars 2 to quite a lot of friends as a customer-friendly game with reasonable monetisation. It's the reason I myself chose to play this game instead of WoW. Please don't make me regret playing, advertising and spending money on your game - it would be such a shame, since so far I've really loved the experience.
