Paid tournaments with gems

[Gámbller]

As fair as I know, paid tournaments work with qualifier points which you get from free tournaments. This made me wonder, why there couldnt be tournaments, where you pay gems or gold to play. For example, a player would have to pay 80 gems (1$) each to play in a tournament, that would require 400 gems per team. There would be 8 teams in tournament and they all would play for those gems, winner takes it all or 1st and 2nd gets paid. Obviously numbers are tweakable so we could also have different buy-in amounts and different sized tournaments. Another thing which crossed my mind was to replace gems with karma points, or have both ofc.

I dont see a reason why this wouldnt interest huge amount of players to at least try it out. You can also buy gems with gold, so you dont have to necessarily spend "real money" into this. Buy in amounts would be small, but even small amounts make things a lot more interesting. If more players would play this, you wouldnt even have to be exceptionally good player to win once in a while. There is millions of people playing cards for money and excitment it brings, why there couldnt be few thousands or even tens of thousands of players who would play online game for money(gems) once in a while?


I read somewhere you can rent a server and play for gems or coins or whatever, but I understood it isnt same system what I am talking about here. Basically, you would form a team of 5 players, each of them must have xx balance of gems so they could register to tournament. You could also see how many other teams are already registered in tournament and estimate how long it would take for tournament to fill so it could start.


Anyway, this obviously needs some polishing and even then it might not fit for GW2. But opinions, civilized discussion, could this work etc.

Sorry for butchering this language.

[zito]

I think this is an example of a route they want to avoid with the gem/cash shop thing.

[Larynx]

I think this is an example of a route they want to avoid with the gem/cash shop thing.

My thoughts exactly.

[Cherrysoul]

You can get Tourny ticktets from random drops in the Glory chests, i got 3 last BWE need 5 for the "paid" torny's so i dont think it is needed in cash shop, its easy to get glory and buy a chest

[Khanjin]

Um.. wait what? I swear I saw some kind of tournament ticket thing in the cash shop in BWE3. Am I crazy?

[Gisei]

I'd rather it be gold than gems, but overall, it's an idea I could get behind.

[Delias]

Um.. wait what? I swear I saw some kind of tournament ticket thing in the cash shop in BWE3. Am I crazy?

Pretty sure there was. You got the same ticket that you get if you win a free tournament. The OP is talking about a tournament that you can ONLY access with gems that gives gems as a reward, I believe.

[Khanjin]

I'd rather it be gold than gems, but overall, it's an idea I could get behind.

Gold=gems. Don't forget that you can buy gems with gold. It doesn't make a difference either way.

[Lucky_]

Gold=gems. Don't forget that you can buy gems with gold. It doesn't make a difference either way.

In the same way that Democratic Republic of Congo dollars = United States dollars, yeah.

[Gámbller]

Pretty sure there was. You got the same ticket that you get if you win a free tournament. The OP is talking about a tournament that you can ONLY access with gems that gives gems as a reward, I believe.

Yes, exactly. It doesnt necessarily have to be gems, just something you value enough so it would pinch a little when you lose, but would feel great if you could win more of it.

[Gisei]

Gold=gems. Don't forget that you can buy gems with gold. It doesn't make a difference either way.

I beg to differ. In-game currency is completely different than real money, whether they are interchangeable or not. Time and Money are mostly interchangeable, for example, but that's always a hot topic in MMOs.

[Rapti]

Pretty sure there was. You got the same ticket that you get if you win a free tournament. The OP is talking about a tournament that you can ONLY access with gems that gives gems as a reward, I believe.

From what I remember Anet said players will be able to make their own tournaments, no?
What stops them from making gold entry fee tourneys where top3 get % of the pool.
All player managed.

[Dempsey]

Um.. wait what? I swear I saw some kind of tournament ticket thing in the cash shop in BWE3. Am I crazy?

no i saw said ticket aswell, lol looks like they went that wrong direction.