From what I here, you can buy gems with cash then convert that to gold. Did I here right, you can buy gold in GW2?
From what I here, you can buy gems with cash then convert that to gold. Did I here right, you can buy gold in GW2?
You can buy gems, other players can then buy the gems you have bought with gold
So you can't buy gold but players can use gold to buy your gems
It's similar but not quite the same, and it's also already been discussed to death so I see a lock in your immediate future
Someone get the chart Mif posted.
Short and simple: Yes, you can sell gems for gold from other players. No, gold does not give you an large advantage over other people.
The only way you can gain an advantage over other players is if you use money for gems, sell gems for gold, and then convert gold into influence, and use influence to gain buffs. The rate of exchange makes this basically not very viable. Sure, I suppose if you dumped like $50 a week into the game your guild would have a large advantage over everyone else in something like WvWvW... but realistically?
Last edited by Larynx; 2012-05-01 at 01:56 AM.
You're buying gold that's made from players though, it's a bit different than buying gold from the developers that brings more gold into the economy. It benefits people that have the cash to spend, and the people that don't have the cash but still wish to buy microtransactions.
I don't know maybe I just old but buying gold is buying gold any way you spin it, and it should be frowned upon. Hell not to long ago gold buying was a ban able offense...
There are two ways to get Gems in Guild Wars 2, the first way is through the Cash Shop, the second way is through the Auction House when the Gems are posted by other players.
You're not paying USD for in game gold, you're paying money for Gems which you can either use to unlock things from the Cash Shop (Transmutation Stones, Character Slots, experience boosters) or to sell them on the auction house.
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There's precedence though from how blizzard made certain IGS pets/ mounts auction-able.
Sentinel PVE Basics for the two Specs that matterOriginally Posted by SW:TOR
Oh, before someone brings it up, the experience boost is for mob kills. Which by themselves are basically like 5 or 10 percent of your actual experience. Most of it comes from DEs, hearts, and so on.
Experience is also incredibly easy to come by in this game anyways.
Actually it's more like buying silver. In the beta about 100 gems got you 8 silver give or take, which isn't a lot. It's ALMOST enough for a retraining manual to reset your traits, lol.
Seriously the whole buying in-game money isn't an issue at all.
Sentinel PVE Basics for the two Specs that matterOriginally Posted by SW:TOR
All the boosters are also available in game easily through the gold earned. All this does is give something to those with less time to play. Ppl with the time to invest will have no use for these boosters, and they're the only conceivable "advantage"
7 silver to reset actually when I did it.
Also the way I understood the gem to gold transfer was it worked like material traders in gw1. It seemed that you got gold from the game not other players, but the exchange rate was totally based on how many people we doing it in a supply-demand equation. IE if alot of people bought gold with gems but few the other way around, your would start getting less gold per gem and vice versa. This mean makes it seem like you are buying gold from players with it, but with the case that it is possible to have EVERYONE buy gold for gems and no one actually buy the gems via gold, just the price for the gold would start to get ridiculous.
yes, you are correct