Oh noes! instant repair! EXP boosters! COSTUMES OF ALL THINGS! SO OP AND NOW GW2 IS TRASH!
No, really now...The only thing I'm skeptical about is the mystic key thing...And if you can get those with ingame currency anyway it's fine.
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Oh noes! instant repair! EXP boosters! COSTUMES OF ALL THINGS! SO OP AND NOW GW2 IS TRASH!
No, really now...The only thing I'm skeptical about is the mystic key thing...And if you can get those with ingame currency anyway it's fine.
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Do you know how many F2P games I review that have cash shops that look like this?
X Weapon (better then weapons available with ingame) for such and such real money.
X Armor (better then armor available with ingame) for such and such real money.
Etc, etc, etc.
GW2 doesnt look to have any of that. Ive played league of legends now for 3 years. I can tell you not once have I faced someone and felt "dang he is so much stronger then me because he has a skin, or an extra rune page!" I still just have 3 rune pages and you know what? Im fine with it. I will be fine with 5 character slots too. Ill want to get an extra bag slot but since I can get that with gold conversion I am no blowing a blood vessel.
Seriously just chill out....
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Yeah, literally the ONLY thing worth being concerned about is that key, but I highly doubt it will be anything game breaking.Originally Posted by Arri
We all saw how they did cash shop in GW1, I have faith in them.
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It changes things significantly that Guild Wars is a game you have to put down money for in the first place.
In a free to play game, I can let things slide, It's a free game, but, in a pay-to-play game or buy to play, you kinda expect these things to be implemented within the main content of the game, not separate and expected to be paid for with extra money.
You expect costumes to be unlocked via progression, keys and what-not to be dropped, resurrection scrolls to be NPCable.
Another issue is that, given the whole MMO model basically depends upon time-sinks, the idea of allowing players to buy "Time-savers" is basically a subtle form of buying power.
Which is simply not acceptable for me.
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear.
You shout and no one seems to hear.
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the items in the cash shop are not the problem, the fact that i can go drop 200-1000$ into the game and sell the gems is, there have been a very large number of f2p mmo's where people can sell cosmetic cash shop items for in game gold and it almost always ruins the economy.
that being said if its anything like guild wars was gold will be borderline useless hell i sold a extra copy of nightfall to someone for 3200 plat and never had any use for it other then buying miniatures and keys.
real world trading no matter how its handled is bad imo.
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Keep in mind everything in the cash shop can be bought with in game currency. Also a lot of the keys and such drop off of mobs to begin with.
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CS seems to be no big deal. I don't think we use gold for much in game anyways, just repairs and teleports, some crafting stuff which doesn't do much either....so use your gold to buy CS items if you want.
Mystic box cant be a big deal, theres no meaningful items in GW2 to aquire.
Res stone doesnt work in pvp, so thats small potatoes too.
So everyones just going to buy a couple bags/bank slots, and use extra gold to buy magic find CS items.
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Only thing i can see myself buying from the cs is dyes and char slots, but of course ill usually stick to 1 character throughout the course of my play time so...that wont be for a while. trans stones can be purchased from npcs with karma so forget about those. I wont touch those costumes unless they look alot better than the picture provided.
Don't see anything game breaking as of yet, keeping in mind i can get gems with gold so whatever, this cash shop shouldnt ever be a problem from the looks of it.
Probably bag slots if i decide to put more time into a 'main'.
LeagueofLegends-ChuckleButt
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GW2's cash shop looks like allods cash shop you can earn everything in game use gold buy gems win win. oh noes costume over priced? dont buy it let the seller realize its not worth that much or let some idiot buy it.
All the negative comments in this thread just...
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This just in you all got told by the Mexican who cant even buy Dungeon Defenders DLC - you also got Ponyed DAYUM.GW2's cash shop looks like allods cash shop you can earn everything in game use gold buy gems win win. oh noes costume over priced? dont buy it let the seller realize its not worth that much or let some idiot buy it.
All the negative comments in this thread just...
- That being said why is everyone throwing a fit over cheap customs that serve no purpose in the game and exp pots and stuff? it's not like it EFFECTS THE GAME AT ALL
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