Gw2 Gem Store

Purchasing from a real money trader is against the Rules of Conduct.Players who purchase gold or items from a gold seller may unknowingly be placing their account and credit information in jeopardy, which in turn continues to promote and support malicious RMT in Guild Wars 2. When the Support Team detects that RMT gold has been sent to an account, their goal is to remove the wealth and items.

In this month’s closed beta event, we’ll do some early testing of the Guild Wars 2 microtransactions system. Our microtransaction content isn’t nailed down yet, but we have a good framework in place to support it. So, I’d like to take a moment to explain our goals and the system we have developed to meet them.

In this video I go over my top 5 gem store items for new players! I also list them in the description below if you don't want to watch the wh.
The second way of getting gems in Guild Wars 2 is by buying gems with real money. This can be done through the in-game gem store or you can buy a card filled with 2000 gems at your local game store or at any game store online. This is the easiest way of getting gems, that is if you have money to spend.

We believe in microtransactions because they fund ongoing development of the game in a very straightforward and open way. You, the customer, get to decide how much money you spend on the game after launch, based on how compelling it is to you. You get a complete and playable game no matter what, but we think we can provide additional content and services that you’d be happy to pay for. And when you pay for them, you help fund our support of Guild Wars 2 in a way that benefits all players of the game.

Here’s our philosophy on microtransactions: We think players should have the opportunity to spend money on items that provide visual distinction and offer more ways to express themselves. They should also be able to spend money on account services and on time-saving convenience items. But it’s never OK for players to buy a game and not be able to enjoy what they paid for without additional purchases, and it’s never OK for players who spend money to have an unfair advantage over players who spend time.

I know none of this is new; the original Guild Wars also had microtransactions. But microtransactions were an afterthought in Guild Wars, whereas with Guild Wars 2, we had an opportunity to integrate the microtransaction system from the ground up, giving players more options and more convenience without sacrificing our design principles. So, here’s what we’re doing differently this time.

In Guild Wars 2 we have three currencies: gold, karma, and gems. Gold is the common in-game currency. Karma, which players earn in-game but cannot trade, is used for unique rewards. And gems are the currency that’s bought and used to purchase microtransactions.

We have a new player-driven market that allows players to trade gold for gems and gems for gold. If you want something, whether it’s an in-game item or a microtransaction, you ultimately have two ways to get it: you can play to earn gold or you can use money to buy gems. We think that’s important, because it lets more players participate on a level playing field, whether they use their free time or their disposable income to do it.

MMO veterans will note the similarities of our system to EVE Online’s PLEX system. As in that case, our system takes gold trading out of the hands of real-money trading (RMT) companies and puts it directly in the hands of players.

We think that’s a great thing.

From a player’s perspective, RMT companies have all the wrong motivations: the more money they make from selling gold, the more they spam ads in the game, run bot networks to farm gold, and hack accounts to loot them for gold. Conversely, under our system, players have all the right motivations. If a player buys gold from another player, he gets the gold he wants, the selling player gets gems she can use for microtransactions, and ArenaNet generates revenue from the sale of gems that we can use to keep supporting and updating the game. Everyone wins.

We also like the tradability of gems and gold because it makes the rest of the game’s economy more compelling. We’ll have a player-to-player Trading Post in the game—it’s like an auction house but better—which we’ll discuss in an upcoming blog post. Because gems can be traded for gold and vice versa, we don’t need two different trading systems, one for gold and one for gems. In Guild Wars 2, everything on the Trading Post is traded for gold, but of course, somebody who wants to earn gems can just sell items for gold, and then convert the gold to gems.

We have always taken our responsibility to players seriously with the original Guild Wars, and we will continue to do so with Guild Wars 2. We believe the foundation I’ve described here is the right foundation for us to build upon, and we look forward to sharing more details with you in the future as we nail down our microtransaction content.

– Mike O’Brien

Making money in Guild Wars 2

As Bhagpuss remarks, money in Guild Wars 2 is tight if you play it 'normally'. Fortunately I am not very much interested in playing games normally. So the alt I made for crafting (and who ended up crafting not very much), is up to 6 gold at level 10, with just 1% of map completion due to not having adventured much beyond the tutorial. So how does one make money in Guild Wars 2?
As Heartless remarked in a comment here, you *can* make money buying items on the auction house and salvaging them, as the materials are worth more than the item. This is due to crafting being mostly a way to make experience points and skill points, and not a way to make money. Nevertheless I do not recommend the salvaging route, because it is somewhat tedious: You first need to find out into how many materials the various items salvage into, and then find the best spread between item price and raw material price. And even then the spread is just a few copper pieces, so you need to salvage hundreds of items before you make even 1 gold. It works, especially with buy orders, but it isn't exactly a get rich quick scheme, and there is a lot of competition.
I found the far better way to make money is exploiting the unthinking undercutters. As Klepsacovic said, the intelligent thing to do is to undercut everybody else by 1 copper, as this guarantees you a quick sale in exchange for an utterly trivial price cut. As Gevlon would say, most people on the auction house are morons & slackers, or to state it in a more politically correct form, they don't care much about virtual currencies and don't treat it as carefully as real money. Thus you can often find somebody undercutting not by 1 copper, but by several silver. So if you see the lowest cost item being 5 silver, and then second-lowest being 10 silver, you can buy the 5 silver item and put it back up at 9.99. Even after AH fees that's an instant 4 silver profit.
Finally I actually made a bit of money by crafting. There are a few masterwork items that sell sufficiently well that they keep a price a few silvers more than their components. But that requires a good knowledge and observation of a specific corner of the market. You need to know which stats are most in demand, and for which slots. Sometimes items for specific slots are needed to skill up, e.g. shoulders, and that automatically floods the market with cheap goods, while the same item for another slot sells for 20 silver and can be crafted for 10.
With everybody on the same auction house, there aren't many opportunities for quick money without much effort or thinking. But with a careful study there is money to be made, even in the deflationary market of Guild Wars 2.

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