Quote Originally Posted by M1nGs3N4yuk1 View Post
I am aware that you can buy Gems for Gold but that is basically like paying real money for power. Just spend a few thousand real life money and convert it to in-game gold and become mega rich. Now you can afford those top notch super expensive shit. Furthermore, being able to sell gems will just jack up prices for the average player. Just sell a thousand dollars worth of Gem and you're mega rich. Now sellers are just going to jack up prices of everything in the game because they know those people can afford it. The average are left in the dust.

If you're not okay with players buying gold from goldsellers, then you shouldn't be okay with players buying gold from the developers. That is basically what they're doing.

Guild Wars 1 was good because you had to rely on your own merchanting skills/ability. But now... it's just "shove a few thousand dollars and be instantly rich instead."
I'm certainly not against your point in my next statement but
who the flying **** is going to spends $1,000's on a game?

I know Entropia(i think that's the name) and EVE have some big spenders, however these people often have a means of making a profit out of it. EVE for example has guilds building ships and then selling them.(IRL)[unless the devs cracked down on it]

So to conclude: Not necessarily countering the validity of your point, however you should take note that making up big numbers only hurts you in an argument(of any sorts).