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More on Guild Wars 2 Microtransactions

The Guild Wars Facebook Page has more on the microtransaction system in Guild Wars 2, following up on the recent update on the ArenaNet Blog on the business model for the upcoming MMORPG sequel. Here's word:

Here are a few important clarifications about our microtransaction system. First, that gold is coming from other players. So somebody must have an abundance of gold if he trades it to a player. The system is not adding new gold from the outside.

Second, take into account the gem/gold trading system. Everything that is in the store will basically be available for gold with this system - so it doesn't really matter what is in the store, as it is also available for players who play and don't want to spend additional money. Hope that helps! ~RB2

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15. Re: More on Guild Wars 2 Microtransactions Mar 22, 2012, 16:14 Endo
 
budrojr wrote on Mar 22, 2012, 15:32:
I hope some of those items are in the game itself. I wonder just how many extra bag slots you can buy, and do they go to all toons on the account? If I have 10 toons and have to buy extra bag slots for each toon, I'm not going to be happy at all.

From those screenshots, it looks like the pricing for a lot of the items is set too high. At current enchange rates, a character slot would be about $12.50. What's wrong with multiples of $5? Setting the currency off like that is going to mean I'll be waiting until a half-off or other discount sale or something. I'm fine to buy stuff, but not when it looks like greed. :/

Then again, I've already outed myself as being a cheap, broke player.
I'd be highly surprised to find out any of the items in the gem shop will ever be available otherwise (other than maybe in some promotion or something).

But honestly, this shouldn't be surprising to anyone. This is how they have to make their money. I've been expecting exactly this type of thing for a long long time, pretty much ever since the first bit of info about GW2 was made public in a PC Gamer magazine before EotN was released. Real MMOs with persistent worlds take money to run, lots of it. There was never a chance the same revenue model they used with the first GW was going to work with GW2, because it's a whole different genre of game.

Bottom line is, would you rather pay for these things, or pay a monthly subscription? Because there's no realistic third option.

Also, for anyone who's interested, here's the original PC Gamer with the breaking news about GW2.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/pc-gamer-may-2007-information-t10133090.html

This comment was edited on Mar 22, 2012, 16:22.
 
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