Buying stuff in GW2 is a luxury, nothing more. You can get everything with ingame gold aswell. Basic farming mats don't take up bank space.PetJel
Yeah and its easier at higher levels to collect the money needed, but to get there is a lot of effort. One thing people keep brushing under the proverbial carpet is the fact nobody was advised this would be the case, so you had a number of GW1 fans thinking they will get much more of the same. Only to find a system which is trying to force you to either work extremly hard to fully enjoy the game instead of being somewhat casual to get things (like bank slots and bag space) or to just buy it.
They need a system like this so people don't make 45 characters all with bank tabs full of collectibles that they rarely play but do take up server space amongst other things I assume. They also need a basic source of income to pour back into server upkeep since this is a one time buy game after all.
45 characters? That would be impossible of course. You are only allowed an initial 5 characters, you have to purchase more character slots on the one server you pick. Source of income is the cost of the game hence why it is a higher price, which should include the ability to easily get bank slots and a bag slot at a later time through in game currency, essentially people paid more money for a game that isn't 100% there, in turn making some players (and they have done it) bought diamonds with real currency to get things that are missing.
On one hand I have enough gold after a little bit of auctioning to buy more bank tabs, on the other hand I'd glady pay a few bucks for a permanent upgrade and skip the farming process. Buying gems for this game is just_ a_luxury if you cba farming / basic ingame money making. and nothing more.
Nobody said it wasn't a luxury, thats putting words into peoples mouths so to speak. The fact is nobody expected that to be the case. Luxury is the extra skins, glasses etc, but when it involves actual game mechanics then yes it is very wrong again especially when people are not informed before or during purchasing of the game.
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