Guild Wars 2 balances classes and adds spectacular new mounts – for a price
“For a limited time, the new Reforged Warhound mount skin is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 2,000 gems. The Black Lion Stables are pleased to open their doors and offer new mount adoption licenses. Each license will allow you to claim a random mount skin from the Black Lion Stables, and they are available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 400 gems each.”
If you’re familiar with the way SMITE does some of its RNG promos, the new license is kinda like that: You’re at least guaranteed a mount skin out of these lockboxes, but it might not be the one you want, so you’ll be buying and rolling the dice over and over until you get it. Only there are 30 skins. You might be buying and rolling for a while at 400 gems ($5 a pop, or a discounted rate if you buy 10 or 30 at a time). In case you’re wondering, to buy all 30 right now would run you $120 in real cash, though that’ll go up to $150 once the promo is over. It’s worth pointing out we don’t know the odds for getting any of the mounts, only that you do always get one.
Reddit, however, has erupted much more over the class balancing changes. Basically, nobody is happy, except maybe Weavers. So, a balancing patch then.
We’ve included Anet’s quick videos of some of the mounts down below.
The Reforged Warhound and friends are looking for homes! #GuildWars2 ~RB2 pic.twitter.com/wVpoeOyfrb
— Guild Wars 2 (@GuildWars2) November 7, 2017
#GuildWars2 ~RB2 pic.twitter.com/OsVz1O4WaH
— Guild Wars 2 (@GuildWars2) November 7, 2017
— Guild Wars 2 (@GuildWars2) November 7, 2017
#GuildWars2 ~RB2 pic.twitter.com/4grlvzBoD0
— Guild Wars 2 (@GuildWars2) November 7, 2017
omg new mount skins in the BLTC today!! I got the Starbound Griffon on my second try!! 😍 @GuildWars2 pic.twitter.com/qO8aO5q96C
— Anna 🎂🎈 (@anna8bit) November 7, 2017
JUST THE ONE I'VE WANTED 💕💕💕💕 so pretty omg pic.twitter.com/tqVdew00nR
— Brighan 🦉 Commissions open! (@BrighanArt) November 7, 2017
AHHHHHHHHHHHH #GW2 @GuildWars2 pic.twitter.com/oTQ0fTlZCU
— GW2&XenobladeFanboy busconovioquemecomatodoelconio (@neosaursfanboy) November 7, 2017
In a moment of weakness I … bought … one of the skins.
Wouldn’t you know it was a skin for the griffon, the only mount I do not have and have no intention of grinding to get. Beware, all ye non-griffon-owners! :(
You dont know the odds but you always get one, hmm.
So many gamer’s with zero self control.
Nope, I love GW2 and have over 7k hrs in it and will probably continue playing it until the day the servers go offline, but this is BS and Anet deserves to be called out on it.
Yeah. Lootboxes. Fuck that.
From what I can tell more people are pissed off at the Lock Box Gambling these Mounts are hidden behind, I will not be buying any of these mounts until they are sold ala carte, at a reasonable price 400 gems. my discretion, with no element of RNG.
I am not afraid of spending money in their cash shop, lately I’ve been dropping roughly $40 every 2 weeks in Gems, 4 weeks ago I spent $20 to buy the Spooky Mounts because I knew what I was buying, after PoF was announced I bought the $80 version because it came with the game for $30 $50 worth of gems and Extras ontop of that.
I may even be a whale.
I do how ever have my standards!
On a positive note they buffed Necromancer Power Reaper with massive buffs, we have a long way to go before we are optimal for Raiding, however we have enough burst potential to not be considered charity cases in Tier 4 Fractals.
Oh and to all you whining bitching Warriors and Druids suck it up cry babies, ANet just broke your strangle hold over the PVE Meta and it’s about god damn time, nerfing Phalanx Strength and Grace of the Land was a giant buff for every one that was just considered ‘plus ones’ when it came to Raids.
The real travesty of the mount skins is they sell you all 30 for 9600 gems but you can only buy 8000 gems at a time.
The sky’s on fire…Majestic AF
RNG i wear this game since HOT does everything i hate and i won’t play it.
The mount licenses are pretty much identical to Smite skin chests. And those were not really a problem. It’s just cosmetic stuff, no reason for an uproar. Especially when actual content updates are free for everyone.
Which content updates are free? The story missions and zones for Heart of Thorns, or the story missions and zones for Path of Fire? Those free ones?
Not disagreeing that there’s no reason for an uproar. Just pointing out that the majority of the new content updates are NOT free.
I’m pretty sure he was referring to all of the content between the expansions, the living story updates, which at least in S3 were considerable, a new zone each time. S4 will be starting soon and we assume it’ll run the same.
The S3 updates that required you to have purchased HOT?
You done been sn-Ark-ed.
This is generally how MMOs work, yes. Future content usually depends on past content, ownership of the base game, etc.
I agree, that is generally how MMOs work. You pay for their expansions, then you get expansion content.
However that’s not free.
Yes, it is. It’s free if you already own the latest version of the game. In fact, it was free even if you didn’t own HOT, as you could still freely claim them for the future without being able to play them. No one is going to say WoW’s patches are paid because you had to buy the last expansion to benefit from them. No one is going to say EVE’s expansions are paid just because you have to sub to access them.
GW2 has real issues. The genre has real issues. No need to conjure one out of nothing.
I have $40 dollars worth of goodies for you. Over time I’m going to drop a few extra bucks into it. It’s over here in a box you have to purchase for $40.
Are the $40 and goodies free? The answer is no. You simply pay less over all price for the goods over time and the $40 investment on your part increases in value.
In WOW everything is paid for because there’s a subscription. EVE on the other hand has a bit of grey territory because of the newer Alpha system and including content in patches they add content that can be accessed without paying.
Genre has issues because we don’t objectively speak of things correctly because businesses and players are always looking for new, confusing ways of viewing things. However at the end if the day no matter how much stuff “for free” they “give” you if you can only access it by paying money that isn’t free.
Properly understanding and stating our role and the impact we have on the genre we like is how we fix things.
It isn’t free. You may think in your mind it is but you paid for that. A company like ANET gives nothing away for free.
Like others have pointed out, you pay for the expansion and other content. Thinking it is free is your fantasy, which you are very welcome to enjoy.
I investigated your claim with purchased content and the rest being free. You can currently buy Heart of thorns or whatever it is called but you will not get any of the content after it, season 2. you have to buy them because as ANET states….”You missed your chance” so they charge extra to access that content.
if it were free as you state then why are they charging once you buy that expansion? Same thing will happen with Path of fire. Once that season is over you will have to purchase those missed chapters, even if you buy POF.
Why it gotta be RNG?
You know why.
Because they don’t want big daddy spending his money?<<<