Zaishen Tournament Predictions: Good or Bad?

So far I've been seeing people in the week or so after reward points are added selling keys in 100-250 groups. Assuming that they got it from Tournament Predictions, I think 450k is a bit too big a prize for dumb luck. I say reduce the point rewards so that you can't make tons of cash for spending 4 mins on a website just clicking random stuff.

What is your take on this?

i think most are from ATs

because u dont get much or not as wealthy, doesnt mean u have to qq

i think its fine...you still have to predict right to get a lot of points so imo its fine as it is...

People actually pvp, you know.

Unless they have several accounts I doubt people would be getting 250 keys from Zpoints, its likely people will be getting them from actually participating in ATs etc.

I get roughly ~100 points each month, so thats ~100k if I decide to sell them 20 keys. And yes, those are from a pint of dumb luck and a spoon of my own observations during GvG's.

I don't think people are able to get 200 keys just by predictions. At least not by dumb luck. They would need a lot of accounts that way, all racking in about 20-25 keys each.

However, if they are spot on with their predictions and do get 100+ keys on 1 account, well, that isn't dumb luck anymore isn't it?

get your facts straight.

The absolute maximum you can get from predictions is 250 reward points, equalling 50 keys or 250k.

However, the chances of getting that much are close to none since to requires you to guess all 8 spots correctly.

Usually it averages out at around 100k as Arduinna pointed out. That's just fine imo, taking it's only once a month and you can get the exact same points by doing 2 ATs (or AFKing 7).

I like free money. Who doesn't? It's better than wasting time farming ectos with SF, and easier too.

Oki I officially need to start caring about this crap.
100k-ish per month would finance my AFK-addiction quite nicely!

I've never heard of a Zaishen Tournament, but I like the Xunlai Tournament House.

What?

You do know every item drop in the history of item drops that was sold to another player is a product of dumb luck? How is this any different?

If anything, it's more intelligent and interesting, as well as promoting interest in following PvP.

Very good, no better way to get Zkeys for noobs like myself who only RA.

I think they are Good just the way they are.

I think it is fine. They probably got them from PvP'ing, I highly HIGHLY doubt they got them just from predictions unless they had multiple accounts.

Then again, the OP might not be able to predict the outcome and thus thinks it's discriminating against him, and thus it's in need of removal or a nerf :O!!

Q_Q moar.

I likez it the way it is
I'm not really an active player anymore and I really hate farming / doing anything else that requires me to actually do stuff in the game to get money.

And this way I get about ~80k a month by the predictions, which is good for buying some stuff =]

It's fine.

I think that what you are seeing is the result of this :

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Reward_points.

Not another engining nerf request! FFS, why are members of this community so hung up on what they *think* other players are getting?

There's not even a bloody trader for Z-keys - so it's not new money coming into the gaming, it's just money moved between players. And some of us actually just use those keys! If we don't find it easy to get 5-10 Crème Brûlées a month, it's not worth the effort of going to the site.

It is our own fault that we pay ~5K for a key.

Convince the community that they should be worth 1K or something and we don't need a reduction in reward points.

... lol, let's see if thats gonna happen.

Dumb luck?

If you knew more about PvP then you can easily get more than half of each mAT right. The only thing that bothers me is that Anet messes up the points you actualy get.