Therzin.5894

You're likely right about it being more due to the push of NCsoft than ANET. All things considered, that's all the more reason to fight back and hit them in their bank accounts where it hurts. We give them an inch and they'll probably restructure all of their future content releases like this. If it means it becomes a divided and hostile environment where even those paying into their little shtick start hating it, then so be it I say.

This is pretty amazing. If this was available as a large print, I'd probably buy it and hang it up.

Dual maces with specialization specific hammer skins. I wanna get all Bob the Builder up in this motherf

The Widding attire/chef outfits are 10 skins (!!!) and also cost half of that SINGLE skin..... get my point? I don't know about the wedding at all as I never looked at it except once, but isn't the Chef the same on everyone except Sylvari?I recall Sylvari looking like they found a pile of old wet brown paper bags and just shove them all over their body because, "Oh Grenth I'm naked" or something and needed to be covered.I would say "hate to be that guy", but I actually enjoy this: Grenth is a human god. A Sylvari probably wouldn't say that. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

And this is basically why there's been some backlash against players who feed into this. I don't think anyone's gonna argue that those players are doing so with the ill intention of ruining the game for others. Maybe they're just much better off than a lot of us or enjoy it enough to not mind the cost, but it doesn't change the fact that this money grabbing tactic is a problem. Say other players explain to them and they even start to sort of agree; it doesn't affect them enough to be vocal about it. It's unfortunate that it's come to this but rather than a bunch of us "expendable" players whining that it's having a negative effect on the game and community, ANET's cash cows are also joining the discussion because it's now also affecting them. A better business model for this fiasco would hurt literally none of the players, and even if ANET takes a financial hit, I imagine it would be incredibly marginal once you take into account all of the boycotting players are now willing to drop cash and buy stuff again. None of the players are at fault here, ANET's the one pitting the players who care and the players who don't against each other by doing something completely unnecessary.

What support would you like? Do we need to drag someone from ANET corporate and somehow get them to admit that people who buy into the whole RNG adoption supports more of these practices? I feel it's just intuitive that these practices just keep accessibility of these in game goods out of the hands of their more general player population, who have absolutely no problem spending money if it was a more sure thing, in favor of the profits they can squeeze out of a very small player population willing to fork over a ton of money in these gambles. Do they have the freedom to? Sure. Is it also a totally shit practice that people equally have the right to call out and protest? Fuck yeah. This. If they had just sold individual mount skins at say a typical outfit cost of 700-800ish, literally no one would have even raised an eyebrow at this. I probably would have dropped 20 dollars myself. Nothing else has been quite as extensively cut from general accessibility. Maybe you can't easily get the super rare skins from the blc but there are so many other good alternatives. And with dyes they're a matter of being a few shades off from the exact color you want. I'll settle for a dark grey as I wait for my pure black. There's literally no access to mount skins you may want unless you roll the dice or cough up money for the package or extra nice "limited time" jackal.