Afro Dude.8423

Honestly, I would buy one of the mounts if I could choose the one I want for 400 gems. But when it's a 1 in 30 chance, or having to pay over $120 I feel insulted as a consumer. The forged skin also costing almost as much as Path of Fire itself is crazy too. Granted, it's not as distasteful as dropping lootboxes onto the beaches of Normandy, but still just as insidious. This is a rated Teen game pushing gambling on it's players using real money. Would the developers at Anet want someone pushing their 13 year old kid to gamble with real money? Sure you could use gold, but the amount you would need is out of reach for the vast majority of the playerbase. As a player of 5 years, I definitely won't be supporting this game financially if this keeps up. I also feel like a charlatan for telling my friends that GW2 isn't the kind of game to exploit it's players.

Don't take the vocal minority as a majority, ever. Right now that poll is full of pissy kids who don't understand that Anet have done them a favor with this system. They could've put these mount skins in the black lion chests, but no they put them in a separate system. This RNG ticket system, unlike the lootbox system that is is unfairly being compared to, gives you the same chance to get a fire raptor as a raptor with a different skin pattern. There is no chance to get anything else than a new skin with these, why can't people understand that this isn't like those kitten lootboxes in other games. They even removed the chance of getting a duplicate so you don't sit there and cry about getting the same thing twice. Sure you might not have gotten the specific mount skin you wanted, but you got a new skin so what's the big deal? Where should we draw the line on exploiting consumers then? I'm not crying about anything. I as a consumer should not have to pay $120, 4 freaking times the cost of the expansion, to get the skin I want. Why does a company being blatatly greedy matter more than your own rights as a consumer? If you think profits are that important above all else, we should just go back to the days of coal mining towns! Where companies paid their workers so little that they couldn't move out, lived in company provided housing, and bought food and clothing from the company. That was really good for business you know.