How you prevent players from buying gold to goldsellers ?

chtiyonki.6284

#1 - Nov. 2, 2012, 8:14 a.m.

Hello,

sorry for my english first.

Today the gems price is really really high (1g = 107 gems).

On the store you can buy 100 gems for ~1 euro.
So atm ~1 euro = ~100 gems = ~1 gold

If I want to spend 50 euros in this game I get ~5k gems or ~50 golds.
FYI 5k gems is ~55 Black Lion Keys.

Now, I took a random goldseller website and there the prices:
50 euros = ~150 gold = ~15k gems
15k gems is ~165 Black Lion Keys.

Now some history…
1-2 weeks before the Halloween event 1g = ~150 gems
During the halloween event 1g = ~100-120 gems

I never bought to GS, and I never bought to ANet. I really would buy some golds to ANet but the prices are really too high and I don’t want to be scammed.

My question is, do you plan to reduce the gems prices to prevent players from buying
golds to goldseller or will you continue to increase the prices pushing players to go on goldsellers store ?

Thanks for awnser.

John Smith

#32 - Nov. 5, 2012, 12:42 p.m.

Tallis.5607:
There is no way for you or for me to change the price of gems, they are exclusively decided by Anet.

False. Anyone watching the exchange rate relative to the the many factors that induce supply or demand will see an extremely simple pattern that shows that the price of Gems and Gold is in fact controlled by player demand and is pretty volatile as one might expect from a system.

I’d also encourage everyone to read my previous post about the damage of goldsellers.
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/bltc/Gold-sellers-vs-BLTC/first#post581941

John Smith

#35 - Nov. 5, 2012, 1:55 p.m.

Narkosys.5173:
For me it is simple change how to get a precusor or legendary. That now is one of the biggest sinks and Anet chooses to enable to gold sellers. So until that demand is satiated dont expect the botters to go away. Since they offer at a reasonable rate compared to anet they will always have a steady supply of customers.
TLDR: Anet keeps enabling gold selling by precusors the biggest $ sink right now.

I think you may be a bit confused, nothing here is true. Try to think of the game a whole for all players.

John Smith

#37 - Nov. 5, 2012, 2:52 p.m.

The currency exchange is not a lottery system, it is exactly what its name says it is.
Even if it were, the answer to your question would be no, because one entails personal/risk reward while the other requires you to account for the damage to this game and gaming in general which will fail an objective cost benefit 100% of the time.

John Smith

#69 - Nov. 6, 2012, 11:27 a.m.

I really want a new Koenigsegg. At the moment I cannot get one. I am an upstanding citizen and will not steal a Koenigsegg. I will hire someone to steal one from someone else and give it to me. If they weren’t so hard to get I wouldn’t NEED to have someone steal one. Oh, but would I want one if they were easy to get?

John Smith

#96 - Nov. 6, 2012, 5:36 p.m.

I don’t want to get into an argument, so this is the last statement I will make here:
Of the data that I have seen. Which is significant. It is reasonable to say
1) Goldsellers are a criminal group
2) Goldsellers damage games
3) Goldsellers cannot be classified as competition because they are not in the same industry

These are not statements of belief. They are statements of statistics.