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Guild Wars / The Gem System: Pay to Win?
« on: August 08, 2012, 06:15:16 pm »
From what I have seen in the betas, they are going to have a currency exchange in the Black Lion Trading Company tab.
This ingame window will be basically all of what you need in the palm of your hand in terms of money. So let's say you need a new pair of boots. You can go and buy these from somebody on the auction house type deal in that tab.
Go up to the top tab you'll find a "Currency Exchange" where you can trade Gems for In game gold and vice versa.
What gems are used for are things in a Guild Wars shop which will be most similar to the NX Shop in Maple Story for all you fans out there. (Nerdy.. and embarrassing. I know)
I say this because the lead designer of that NX shop has helped in producing the "gem shop" in the new Guild Wars.
So are people going to spend real money to get all the money in Guild Wars 2 and overpower the people who choose not to pay?
One example brought up was that you can craft and craft alone without touching a single mob after the intro and through this get to level 80.
Somebody had been worried that you may be able to buy gems, convert them to gold, and then buy all the crafting items they need to reach level 80.
But let's look at the real thing here. If somebody really wants to get to level 80 that way it will cost tons and tons of real money and would in the end not be worth it at all.
Second of they are only destroying their own experience of the game being locked up in some crafting chamber maybe in the Black Forge.
Third it's not necessarily pay to win because that person wasting their own money won't have any type of superiority in terms of gear. (If they only craft, they'll never have done any dungeons such as Arah. Which has beautiful level 80 armor sets may I add.)
These people who choose this way of leveling will affect the world minimally if at all. The better way for them to do it would in my opinion be to buy possible Exp boosts offered in the Gem Store.
This being said I think that the Currency Exchange is a very good thing. People who don't want to pay for gems can work hard and be thrifty in the game in order to buy gems on the exchange.
I see this as another very good end game opportunity. After all content is completed if ever, I would most likely spend my time in World v. World getting money and most likely spending some of that on getting some gems. Then I could buy some cool cosmetics like Aviator glasses in the Gem Store.
It's brilliant really. The game as a whole is brilliant. I can't wait to play.
See you guys out there!
This ingame window will be basically all of what you need in the palm of your hand in terms of money. So let's say you need a new pair of boots. You can go and buy these from somebody on the auction house type deal in that tab.
Go up to the top tab you'll find a "Currency Exchange" where you can trade Gems for In game gold and vice versa.
What gems are used for are things in a Guild Wars shop which will be most similar to the NX Shop in Maple Story for all you fans out there. (Nerdy.. and embarrassing. I know)
I say this because the lead designer of that NX shop has helped in producing the "gem shop" in the new Guild Wars.
So are people going to spend real money to get all the money in Guild Wars 2 and overpower the people who choose not to pay?
One example brought up was that you can craft and craft alone without touching a single mob after the intro and through this get to level 80.
Somebody had been worried that you may be able to buy gems, convert them to gold, and then buy all the crafting items they need to reach level 80.
But let's look at the real thing here. If somebody really wants to get to level 80 that way it will cost tons and tons of real money and would in the end not be worth it at all.
Second of they are only destroying their own experience of the game being locked up in some crafting chamber maybe in the Black Forge.
Third it's not necessarily pay to win because that person wasting their own money won't have any type of superiority in terms of gear. (If they only craft, they'll never have done any dungeons such as Arah. Which has beautiful level 80 armor sets may I add.)
These people who choose this way of leveling will affect the world minimally if at all. The better way for them to do it would in my opinion be to buy possible Exp boosts offered in the Gem Store.
This being said I think that the Currency Exchange is a very good thing. People who don't want to pay for gems can work hard and be thrifty in the game in order to buy gems on the exchange.
I see this as another very good end game opportunity. After all content is completed if ever, I would most likely spend my time in World v. World getting money and most likely spending some of that on getting some gems. Then I could buy some cool cosmetics like Aviator glasses in the Gem Store.
It's brilliant really. The game as a whole is brilliant. I can't wait to play.
See you guys out there!
