Back in the good ol days of GW1, getting to complete the sticker shop was super easy, taking me under 400 hours. However, GW2 doesnt have that same luxary. I am about 390 items away from completion, and i have bought almost everything rux has sold and played almost every mystery portal and community challenge. But the problem is in the sticker shop. Sure it takes a long time to get items in the other methods. But the sticker shop is honestly a mess. Once you get close to getting all sticker shop items, the game starts to give you less and less per pack. Back in GW1, when you would buy, say, the bling pack, you'd get one super rare and a bunch of other rarity items. But once you got all the commons, which was inevitable, you would get maybe FIVE SUPER RARES IN A SINGLE PACK. This was a fantastic idea, as it allowed for much easier completion of something that shouldn't be hard to do in the first place. GW2, sadly, fails to make use of this awesome system. Now at the point I am of completion, when i buy a wondrous pack of greatness, i am LUCKY to get ONE customization. The game only gives out the one super rare you're guaranteed, and it only has a chance to be an item. The game fails to distribute a proper amount of items per pack at higher sticker book completion, and it needs to be fixed. Back before the sticker shop was revamped and, intern, before all the packs were blended together, it was worse, and has gotten "better" afterwards, but it is far from being a good system, and I hope popcap will somehow either see this, or get the message. What do you all think? or am I just making a big fuss for nothing? lol

Re on whether the community should buy GW3 or not depends in my opinion on one's approach to the game. Some want the game signed off and sealed before moving on to GW3, ie. total completion, whereas I personally have no interest in acquiring the stickers and am more worried about completing the quests, finding the fishes, gnomes and globes and getting to max rank.

Many people have the same problem when near completion.I understand the frustration. After we reached max rank, next goal would be complete the sticker book but current sticker pack and Rux make it almost impossible to do it ☹️I don't see the reason why we don't get customization we paid for it :1. Positive way to see it : It's a bug.2. Neutral way to see it : It's a way for EA to drag people to keep playing or paying for more coins ☹️3. Negative way to see it : It's a cheat/violation4. Legal way to see it : It's a scam that can go to court !Regardless of the reason, this must be fixed !

absolutely. Im just praying that a new balancing patch will come that also fixes the sticker shop soon.

Once you're down to about 400 stickers left (including all those RUX and CP stickers), getting a sticker out of a 35K pack is like winning the lottery. I could seriously spend 500K and receive 3-4 stickers. I finally finished the purchase-able stickers in the book a couple weeks ago, boy do those coins start adding up fast once you're down to just the minion packs. And isn't it fun spending a half hour buying those to only get a handful of really useful consumables?

Its just awful. I seriously haven't spent a coin in the sticker shop in the past 5 or so months because I'm trying to save my limited coins for rux since i don't play often enough anymore to just spend coins freely

Problem with sticker shop, and a much needed change

13 Replies

asukojo
8 years ago
Many people have the same problem when near completion.
I understand the frustration. After we reached max rank, next goal would be complete the sticker book but current sticker pack and Rux make it almost impossible to do it ☹️
I don't see the reason why we don't get customization we paid for it :
1. Positive way to see it : It's a bug.
2. Neutral way to see it : It's a way for EA to drag people to keep playing or paying for more coins ☹️
3. Negative way to see it : It's a cheat/violation
4. Legal way to see it : It's a scam that can go to court !
Regardless of the reason, this must be fixed !
Spongeslob168
8 years ago
absolutely. Im just praying that a new balancing patch will come that also fixes the sticker shop soon.
pandareno1999
Hero+
8 years ago
Once you're down to about 400 stickers left (including all those RUX and CP stickers), getting a sticker out of a 35K pack is like winning the lottery. I could seriously spend 500K and receive 3-4 stickers.

I finally finished the purchase-able stickers in the book a couple weeks ago, boy do those coins start adding up fast once you're down to just the minion packs. And isn't it fun spending a half hour buying those to only get a handful of really useful consumables?
Spongeslob168
8 years ago
Its just awful. I seriously haven't spent a coin in the sticker shop in the past 5 or so months because I'm trying to save my limited coins for rux since i don't play often enough anymore to just spend coins freely
Anonymous
8 years ago
I got my last 3 legendary hats out of 2 packs after they patched the shop cause these were the only items in the shop i missed
Spongeslob168
8 years ago
yeah that patch was helpful, but it sadly isnt enough for us long time plaeyrs
Anonymous
8 years ago
@pandareno1999wrote:
Once you're down to about 400 stickers left (including all those RUX and CP stickers), getting a sticker out of a 35K pack is like winning the lottery. I could seriously spend 500K and receive 3-4 stickers.
I finally finished the purchase-able stickers in the book a couple weeks ago, boy do those coins start adding up fast once you're down to just the minion packs. And isn't it fun spending a half hour buying those to only get a handful of really useful consumables?
It hurts so much to see this. I spent the better part of the weekend farming coins in solo mode. (Sorry, after over 1000 hours of the normal way I lost any sense of guilt over farming this way. I am waaaay past the sense of pride and accomplishment of running in EA's mouse wheel.) In this time I managed to get about 1.2M coins. Over 10 hours of "gameplay" and it is worth 3-4 stickers... If this is a bug, it is waaaay overdue for a fix. If this is intentional, I think the community should think twice before blindly buying GW3. (It is rare trends like this improve for the player.)
Anonymous
8 years ago
Re on whether the community should buy GW3 or not depends in my opinion on one's approach to the game. Some want the game signed off and sealed before moving on to GW3, ie. total completion, whereas I personally have no interest in acquiring the stickers and am more worried about completing the quests, finding the fishes, gnomes and globes and getting to max rank.
StuffyLuffer
8 years ago
Completionists are usually the people concerned with acquiring everything the game has to offer. I'm personally content with getting the items I want and having a sizeable inventory. I'll buy GW3 because I'm a PVZ fan and 3rd person shooters are a pleasure of mine.
Anonymous
8 years ago
I see what people are saying about completion. Yes, I personally would like to finish everything but that isn't why I suggest thinking twice. The fact that there is such a difference between content in GW1 vs GW2 shows a clear transition towards microtransactions through prolonged gameplay. (Making things take longer to almost force people without insane amounts of time to buy currency.) It seems sorta clear that they have this bottleneck on purpose and that is a scummy thing to do. (Otherwise, why 2 years in is it not fixed?)
My personal issue with this type of practice is these features often aren't present and launch and are added later. In a way, tricking people into believing they are buying something they aren't. They just need to get you "on the line" before pulling you in. Take for example RUX, who has 131 items yet increases the total coins to a completed stickerbook by 66%. These aren't always things people can just ignore either. Some of the abilities are unquestionably better and most are situationally better. All of this was added in an update. Had I been trying to get the complete stickerbook at the time it would have been a real kick to the groin. (I joined about 6 months after RUX appeared.) Point being, I see GW2 in its final days as an indicator of how GW3 will start and from there likely get worse. It wouldn't surprise me if GW3 starts off as GW1 did, only to devolve into P2W the game. (GW2 hasn't hit that point but I have a strong feeling GW3 will finally cross that line.) While I know I will be punished by missing out of something limited time only, I would rather wait and see what GW3 ends up as before buying. The problem for Popcap is if other people think like me it will show in their launch sales.