ANET's Stance on Microtransactions

[Riiyah]

http://www.arena.net/blog/mike-obrie...n-guild-wars-2


Discuss.

[Sargerus]

We have a new player-driven market that allows players to trade gold for gems and gems for gold. If you want something, whether it’s an in-game item or a microtransaction, you ultimately have two ways to get it: you can play to earn gold or you can use money to buy gems. We think that’s important, because it lets more players participate on a level playing field, whether they use their free time or their disposable income to do it.

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LOVE IT. Good move ANet. I'm most pleased.

[Riiyah]

A negative I see out of it is: WTS> Sword for 50 gems...Other than that the system will pretty much cut out spammers from the main cities.

[Edge-]

Closing this, there's already a discussion topic for this.

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...ion-philosophy

Herp derp proper link.