Guild Wars 2 - Page 129

On March 22 2012 15:41 grs wrote:
1. You buy "gems" for real money.
2. Gems and ingame gold are interchangable / between players
--> Equals: you can buy gold.

I just added the underlined part and it still is the same. This, and especially the wow flowchart is marketing blabla, maybe even marketing blabla bz fanboys. I am not bashing goldselling and I am not bashing GW2, since I am happy when it comes out, but these kind of marketing lies get on my nerves.

On March 23 2012 02:11 DEN1ED wrote:


You obviously haven't played GW1. All end game gear has the same stats. You can get ordinary endgame gear very cheap and easily. If you want cool looking shit you will need lots of gold or gems. So no, there is no "unfair advantage" to people buying gold unless you consider looking cooler an unfair advantage. On the other-hand, in WoW, if you buy gold you buy gear that has BETTER stats and thus get an unfair advantage.

On March 23 2012 02:16 Sky0 wrote:


Umm. In wow you cant come anywhere near end game gear with good stats by buying it with gold. You have to be in a top tier raiding guild, run heroic instances like all the time to get decent epics, or be really good at arena pvp. The items that you make or drop in the world suck. you can make some starter blue gear and bad epics. where are u getting your info/

On March 23 2012 02:16 Sky0 wrote:


Umm. In wow you cant come anywhere near end game gear with good stats by buying it with gold. You have to be in a top tier raiding guild, run heroic instances like all the time to get decent epics, or be really good at arena pvp. The items that you make or drop in the world suck. you can make some starter blue gear and bad epics. where are u getting your info/

On March 23 2012 02:16 Sky0 wrote:


Umm. In wow you cant come anywhere near end game gear with good stats by buying it with gold. You have to be in a top tier raiding guild, run heroic instances like all the time to get decent epics, or be really good at arena pvp. The items that you make or drop in the world suck. you can make some starter blue gear and bad epics. where are u getting your info/

On March 23 2012 16:49 Zooper31 wrote:
It's 1am in CA. Beta servers still not up. I guess I was too hopeful they'd release them starting at midnight for the weekend.

On March 23 2012 17:25 TobZero wrote:
i think there is a better way to describe the microtransaction thing for player who dont get it right!
played eve a lot the last year so i know this system pretty well. think of it this way:

you dont buy gold with real money but actually you are paying another player for the time he spent in the game earning the gold that you in the end can spend on vanity items.
its not like arenanet is magicly creating gold from air (if its like eve) when you spend real money. its always a direct trade of time=money with another player while arenanet is the handler.

On March 23 2012 23:44 Logo wrote:


This is the key point.

Buying gold from devs for money is bad because it floods the system with gold. Buying gems then trading them can only ever move money around.

If ArenaNet didn't have this gem system you'd just have people buying gold from 3rd parties for money. Why is it every time a developer sidesteps a 3rd party to create the EXACT SAME GAME that would exist anyways (except without as much gold seller spam) people freak out?

On March 25 2012 00:00 HejaBVB wrote:
Played the Beta a bit and I don't know yet. Guardian is the perfect class for me, I love these Full-Support Type of classes. PvP is nice, but I don't get the link between PvP and PvE. Why should I level from 1-80 if I can create a char join PvP with Level1 and get a Level80 Char with Full PvP Set.

On March 25 2012 00:04 anomalopidae wrote:


it's probably made this way because it's beta so that you can test pvp the way it should be, it's pointless if there's beta and you can't get to any pvp simply because of the time limit