Odinsson.1953

I've played 1/10th of the time i spent in GW2 and discounting buying the game i've spent probably the same amount of money there than in GW2.First they keep giving me 75% discounts on purchases, so i usually go and buy the highest packages (in gw2 terms it's like buying the 2000 gem pack for less than the price of 400 gems).Second there's Tennogen, knowing that my money also goes to another player getting some back for their awesome mods is cool.Third, all player to player purchases are done in their equivalent to gems, so it's actually handy having some plat to make more plat.Fourth, and this si the most important: Everything not cosmetic there is easily obtainable in the game, and everything else is straightforward. There's no RNG items, there's no weird packaging of items to make you spend more money, there's no limited dye slots on items to make you buy equivalent quality items for real money. When you buy a skin, you buy it because you like that one more. Not because it's the only alternative you have to getting more dye channels.Also buying premium dyes you buy a whole pallette of dyes, not a RNG dye with a higher chance of getting a common in-game dye than the stuff you want. GW2 is an awesome game, but there's a lot of predatory and exploitative items in it's gemstore. Exactly my point. But you explained this better than me.Rebecca Ford the Community Director of DE has hammered in every single employee at DE that the Players are not "Fans" they are "Citizen". So you treat them with more respect.The exchange between playerbase and Developers is wide open and helps the game a lot.Every Community Manager for any Company should take hard look and open mind to learn from this company.Don't get me wrong I love this game and the artist who work hard on this. But the decisions of the Management I cannot understand. If you want that this game has long term relationship with the customers please change the attitude."Just be better". In the end it will also make sense financially.

Beside GW2 I am playing Warframe and must say that I rather spend my money over there for a Frame/Character as here for an Mount Skin. As I do know there what I get.It's an much better relationship with the artists like this. And I think I would probably spend more money on skins to support the game if the relationship has not this predatory loot system involved.I have sadly spend money on this, but will not spend more if this kind of business behavior is not changed.