We keep hearing about how feedback from the beta weekend will determine what's put in the game and release, so on the feedback forms this weekend, be sure to put negative feedback in every form regarding gems and the cash shop. Of course, go ahead and look at all the crap that gold can buy you. The most expensive I believe will be the commander position for WvW and PvE along with prestiege.

Down with legalized cheating and unfairness! Down with cash shop in a $60 game!

Remember, gold buying is illegal in other online games for a reason. Gamers, rise up like we did in Operation Rainfall! Except this time against companies trying to squeeze more cash out of us! Enough with on the disc DLC and cash shops in non F2P games. It's time we as gamers take a stand! Arenanet needs to fight the gold farmers instead of becoming the gold farmers themselves to profit. They haven't fought the farmers yet and yet they implement legalized RMT? Backwards.

Kudos to the heroes who reported Capcom for having on disc DLC to the better business bureau. You can be a hero too! Complain about gems and the cash shop in every feedback form you get, and on the official beta forums.

Sir I diagree and believe you don't know how cash shops work

They work by you paying money? I believe they are the primary income for games that cost $0, that is free to play games.

i doubt we even get to see the gem shop til release.   but feel free to "occupy Lion's Arch" all you want.

If only we could have down with legalized trolling.....

That said, Sir OP, I will look through the game, will look through the shop, and WILL express concerns with anything I see that I feel will reduce mmy enjoyment of the game, if I find any.

At first I didn't want to purchase anything from the cashshop, but if you think about it it helps build expansions. I'm all for purchasing and supporting my new gw2crack habit.

very very very rarely do cash shops give you an actual advantage, most are cosmetics.  And I will say without a doubt with no prior research what so ever that Arenanet won't straight up sell in game currency...... and its rediculous to think so

Originally posted by Betakodo

They work by you paying money? I believe they are the primary income for games that cost $0, that is free to play games.

Wrong again its buy to play first.They get paid..Then its free forever..Now shell out that 50 to 70 dollars  to buy GW2..

Edit add on

We shall see how op the cash shop is.

As far as leaked info on the subject goes, there hasn't been anything game breaking, other sub games have cash shops that sell vanity item, it's even more a necessity for gw2 to have one because they are sub-free, ofc we shouldn't accept a cash shop that sells p2w things but there has been no evidence of the sort...your call for riot came a tad too early

I would hope you'd at least be playing the game and beta testing.   You know submitting bug reports.  If I was Anet and I saw you werent doing that, Id kick you out of beta.  You'd deserve it. 

Do your job.  Or dont log in.  I swear Betas have gotten so funky these days.  Seems the players and the developers themselves have forgotten the purpose of them. 

Originally posted by Amjoco

At first I didn't want to purchase anything from the cashshop, but if you think about it it helps build expansions. I'm all for purchasing and supporting my new gw2crack habit.

I disagree. The original box purchase helps build expansions, and they knowledge that they're going to charge you for the expansions is what helps build them. Think about it, how does a game get developed in the first place if there was no cash shop to support it before it even released? The price they have planned to charge you for the expansion is what builds expansions. There is no need for cash shop, that is just a convenient lie.

Corehaven, I paid $60 to be in the beta. Oooohhh my job. Umad you not get in? Besides, who knows if the beta will just be anything more than the builds shown at PAX anyways?

given the examples of DCUO and DDO which actually just sold the expansions and other account options, as well as DLCs, also in ddo true you could buy items with magical qualities, but nothing was of a quality you would want to even think about starting end game content with....

Originally posted by Betakodo

We keep hearing about how feedback from the beta weekend will determine what's put in the game and release, so on the feedback forms this weekend, be sure to put negative feedback in every form regarding gems and the cash shop. Of course, go ahead and look at all the crap that gold can buy you. The most expensive I believe will be the commander position for WvW and PvE along with prestiege.

Down with legalized cheating and unfairness! Down with cash shop in a $60 game!

Remember, gold buying is illegal in other online games for a reason. Gamers, rise up like we did in Operation Rainfall! Except this time against companies trying to squeeze more cash out of us! Enough with on the disc DLC and cash shops in non F2P games. It's time we as gamers take a stand! Arenanet needs to fight the gold farmers instead of becoming the gold farmers themselves to profit. They haven't fought the farmers yet and yet they implement legalized RMT? Backwards.

Kudos to the heroes who reported Capcom for having on disc DLC to the better business bureau. You can be a hero too! Complain about gems and the cash shop in every feedback form you get, and on the official beta forums.

I fully support this. 

Anything we as a community can do to defeat the scourge of the cash shop, we should do!

Disregarding whether anything in the cash shop will be OP or P2W, consider GW2 with the cash shop, and then consider GW2 without the cash shop. The latter will be better purely because it does not have the cash shop in it and all the negative connotations that are automatically associated with one. As soon as people hear there is a cash shop, regardless of what is in it or not they will form negative opinions because of the stigma associated with a cash shop

Originally posted by Betakodo

Originally posted by Amjoco

At first I didn't want to purchase anything from the cashshop, but if you think about it it helps build expansions. I'm all for purchasing and supporting my new gw2crack habit.

I disagree. The original box purchase helps build expansions, and they knowledge that they're going to charge you for the expansions is what helps build them. Think about it, how does a game get developed in the first place if there was no cash shop to support it before it even released? The price they have planned to charge you for the expansion is what builds expansions. There is no need for cash shop, that is just a convenient lie.

Corehaven, I paid $60 to be in the beta. Who knows if the beta will just be anything more than the builds shown at PAX anyways?

No, you paid 60 bucks to purchase an entire game. You're getting the beta access as an incentive to buy it before you can see it.

Look, whether the box price or the cash shop keeps the game running is entirely irrelevant. You know how much I paid for GW2? 60 bucks flat. Know how much I intend to pay for the next year of gameplay for GW2? 0. I don't HAVE to buy cash items, not buying them doesn't look like it's going to prevent me from enjoying the game, or make it so I have no chance to complete in pvp against someone that does.

So, I paid 60 bucks for a game. That's the same amount as 4 months of a normal monthly subscription.  If I get 4 months out of the game, I got my money's worth.If I get more, I'm happy.

I plan to spend around $15 a month in the CS while I'm actively playing GW2 and a smaller amount if I play for less than a full month. Can't get expansions and eventually GW3 without giving Arena.net monies.

Originally posted by skeaser

I plan to spend around $15 a month in the CS while I'm actively playing GW2 and a smaller amount if I play for less than a full month. Can't get expansions and eventually GW3 without giving Arena.net monies.

Yes. You can. Thats why you and everyone else are paying $60 for the game and then probably (pure guess) $40 or so for each expansion.

I'm pro gems. Now everyone is on even footing instead of people getting to buy gold illegally.

And I can buy gems with gold which means I can buy cash shop items with gold.

So no, I'm not rioting against the cash shop.

Originally posted by graggok

very very very rarely do cash shops give you an actual advantage, most are cosmetics.  And I will say without a doubt with no prior research what so ever that Arenanet won't straight up sell in game currency...... and its rediculous to think so

Yes, they do. $ --> Gems --> Sell Gems to other players for in game currency