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I very much doubt they are actually interested in our feedback. This is purely 110% damage control, I'd wager.

Entirely irrelevant to the grievances people are having with these skins: The gambling.

Way to not understand the issue at all. The GW2 userbase clearly has no issues with paying money for premium content (it has been keeping the game afloat for years now). What people are, rightly so, upset about is the introduction of gambling. Had we been able to outright purchase the skin(s) you want with Gems, it would be business as usual and nobody would've batten an eye.

Remove RNG entirely. Allow us to pick exactly which skin(s) to purchase with our Gems. Problem solved, userbased calmed down and Anet will most likely see an influx of money from people who want the skins, and are fine with paying for premium content, but refuse to buy into this gambling nonsense.

You should be ashamed, Anet. Simple as that. 07/11/2017 was the day I stopped thinking of you as an example of a premium economy done right. You're just as bad as Activision, Warner Brothers and all the other "Triple A"-publishers with their loot box greed in their recent games. Shame. Shame on you. Sincerely a loyal player since launch.

I'm pretty sure the vast, vaaaast majority of the GW2 userbase feels exactly the same. After all, we've been fine with permium content in the form of skins for years by now. That was, of course, until they dailed the gambling aspect up to eleven.

Actually, I'm 110% convinced that the success of games like Shadow of War - AAA-priced titles with a loot box gambling system in them - embolden Anet to expand their gambling within the Gemstore as well. I mean, Shadow of War took crap from every single direction for their loot boxes yet the game sat pretty on Steam's Best Sellers-list.

I dislike the gamble, but I am pretty sure that the overwhelming feedback has been FOR such methods. Every time someone purchases a key to gamble on a BLC, they are telling ANet to keep going with this approach to monetization. Thousands upon thousands of pieces of feedback from people demonstrating a willingness to spend money trumps complaints on a forum. Sigh. They probably just took a look on Steam's Best-Sellers List where games like Shadow of War and the new CoD are still sitting pretty at the top, despite having gambling-loot boxes in fully-priced AAA titles. I'm way beyond the point where I hate the majority of fellow gamers by now.

No, clearly Anet desires for you to gamble for Account Bound skins.

They do, however, include skins for mounts that you don't own. So you can end up with a Griffon skin eventhough you never paid the 250g required to unlock it, lulz. The deeper you go down the rabbit hole, the worse it gets, doesn't it?

Maybe try reading stuff next time? Nobody is complaining about the skins themselves, but the gambling method of acquiring them.

Capital! Makes this already rotten situation even worse, doesn't it? Really Anet what the kitten were you thinking with this?!

People are not mad about the skins being premium content, no. People are mad because they were implemented as a form of gambling. Had you been able to pay 400 Gems for each skin - knowing full well which skin you are getting - it would be business as usual.

If you don't own the Griffon, can you still end up being blessed by RNGesus with a Griffon skin?

Just like there's one for gliders.Oh wait... still waiting on that kitten option. Max-sized Norns using the Raven glider skin ftw! I remember looking through glider skins and seeing one where poor chickens are trying to fly while their broken legs are holding the player up.Can only imagine max size/buffed male norns with them would look/feel. Oh the Raven is so obnoxiously huge that I pretty much cannot use it on my Norn - it obscures literally everything. I can imagine me using it would annoy the heck out of nearby players as well. Raven Spirit GliderThat's the one. Literally covers the entire screen, doesn't it? Heh.

Except that it is 400 Gems for a gamble or 9600 to avoid the gamble. It is underhanded and dirty. Had you been able to directly buy the skin you want for 400 Gems instead, the forums wouldn't be overflowing with hatred towards Anet like they currently are.

Just like there's one for gliders.Oh wait... still waiting on that kitten option. Max-sized Norns using the Raven glider skin ftw! I remember looking through glider skins and seeing one where poor chickens are trying to fly while their broken legs are holding the player up.Can only imagine max size/buffed male norns with them would look/feel.Oh the Raven is so obnoxiously huge that I pretty much cannot use it on my Norn - it obscures literally everything. I can imagine me using it would annoy the heck out of nearby players as well.

Just like there's one for gliders.Oh wait... still waiting on that kitten option. Max-sized Norns using the Raven glider skin ftw!

Not to mention it is a sneaky, underhanded "Want to avoid RNG gambling? Well then pay up, sucker!"-bundle, too. And you STILL need to buy one extra after the bundle.There's 31 skins. The bundle only has 30.REALLY? That's just hilariously tragic.

Not to mention it is a sneaky, underhanded "Want to avoid RNG gambling? Well then pay up, sucker!"-bundle, too.

I admit, I do feel like an idiot and am full of buyer's remorse over the spoopy skins now that I see these. Don't feel bad. The sp00py mounts were objectively a better purchase because, y'know, you get exactly what you paid for.

As would I.

From the update page on the main site : Still doesn't make it any less terrible if you ask me. The very fact that they underhandedly added a "bypass the gambling"-bundle speaks volumes, for example.

Buying permium content I am completely fine with. Gambling for premium content I am vehemently against. This is a kitten and greedy move Anet, and you know it. You thought you could get away with it because of Shadow of War and the new CoD game doing it in their AAA-games right? Well no siree, you get no such pass from me. You're now on the level of those scummy developers, or rather publishers - you're just as bad as them. I'm extremely saddened and disappointed.

Yup. Definitely lowered Anet's standing and good graces in my eyes.