Guild Wars 2

So, there is this nice new achievement system in place, the one where you can retrieve an unlocked skin as often as you want.

Is there any chance that the gem store (armor) skins will be transferred into it or into a similar system?

I wouldn’t mind paying ten bucks for a new skin, especially Magitech and Braham is nice, if I could use it as often as I want. Having additional expenditures in transmutation stones just to keep the skin and being able to lose it is a bit of a deal-breaker for me.

I am pretty sure no one buys the same skin twice, so there is no really disadvantage in un-limiting it’s use but it could attract new customers.

Cheers

Sco

Nice idea, but this should be in the suggestions forum.

I agree that they’ve sort of let the cat out of the bag with the repeatable achievement skins. That’s what everyone’s wanted since before launch – even expected – so showing that they are willing to try it just shows that it can be done and reminds people how much they’d want it.

The thing is, the skin transfer system they have in place now is not just to make things really inconvenient for players – although this is certainly the main byproduct. It’s actually a money sink. Transmuting two items ends up with one fewer item. It’s a way to bleed items out of the system, just like the mystic toilet (although less effective overall, I’d guess). (And it bleeds gold from the transmutation stones – but that could stay in place.) And like any money sink, removing it would inflate prices overall slightly, and slightly damage the economy.

They’ve probably done the math and/or are watching it, but I’d guess they’ll implement this system the moment they can say for sure the negative impact on the economy will be smaller than the positive impact it will have on the playerbase. Sort of like the wallet system: there was no reason we needed all those currencies whatsoever, except to drive up bank slot sales (and bag slots, maybe). I’m guessing that these have probably stabilized, and they thought that with the constant introduction of new currencies they’d get more pushback from the playerbase than it would be worth, so they went ahead and made something that was intentionally inconvenient more convenient.

Actually i know a lot of people who bought at least two of the same armor skin (eg. magitech) on the same character, one in pve and one for pvp. I’m not one of them (yet, i think that soon or later i’ll get one for pvp too) but i know a lot of people in my guild who did it. So i don’t expect anything like endless skins soon..

It would be nice, but the shop would loose too much moeny on that si I think it wont happen. People would not buy any skins if they know they will recive it over time, so its best that skins get into achivment system and others are for gems.

Also I would mention that many people won’t buy skins from TP because they are expensive, so it makes them more rare and that is really nice. Im sicn of people runing with zenith weapons all over game with CoF sets – you know what I mean.

Agreed. I won’t buy any of these skins since they are only 1 time use.

ScoHook.6198:

I am pretty sure no one buys the same skin twice

I am absolutely sure that that is not true, and that is why this will probably never happen. Not to mention transmutation stones are one of the highest sources of revenue so they would be intentionally shooting themselves in the foot.

I think that’ll be a great idea. And probably make those skin into collectible too.

That way people can buy once and enjoy it anytime. Not only that, people like to collect things. So that’ll help Anet on cash shop sales too.

sagath.8746:

Agreed. I won’t buy any of these skins since they are only 1 time use.

Yep, I want skins, and I’d buy them, but I don’t want to deal with littering my bank with backups

OR…….

they could introduce a BLTP kind of wardrobe system under the Hero panel, without incorporating it into achievement system, just like the finisher panel we get now…. that way we only need to unlock it once using gems; once unlocked you can retrieve it anytime….