This Halloween, there’s a gramophone in Guild Wars 2. But what sounds does it produce?
Halloween is always a busy time for the cash shop department of Free2Play and Buy2Play MMOs. Of course, the game designers have their hands full as well, launching events that hardly change over the years.
So it is with Guild Wars 2. Here, in addition to the events already known from previous years, there are two new items in the Gem Store, the in-game shop of the game. Last night, they introduced a bewitched gramophone to GW2, called the “Haunted Gramophone.” It costs 600 gems and is thus relatively expensive. Just last week, there was a stir about changes to the gem purchase.“And what can it do?”, some might wonder.
Dulfy from dulfy.net has purchased the gramophone and shows it in action: It plays various sound effects at the push of a button. Some of them are indeed eerily Halloween-themed, while others are barely audible. For some sounds, there are multiple variants, and with each button press, the gramophone plays a different one. The initial reactions from fans are not exactly enthusiastic.
The second item in the cash shop is a buff catapult, the Candy-Corn Eater, which can be purchased with the Halloween currency “Candy Corn” and emits 15-minute and stackable buffs.
