Guild Wars 2

In the original guild wars, you can still get all event special skins by just waiting for it to come around again. For example if you want the wintersday hat from 2009, you have to wait until wintersday this year, do… something and then you can pick any hat you want. They only introduced this system after they’d pretty much given up on the game however and stopped releasing new items.

Now that everyone knows what skins they missed with the locker, maybe we’ll see some system here to get old skins before GW3 is released. Or maybe not.

I understand and appreciate posts like this, requesting past content to be made available in the gem store, because who wouldn’t want a way to obtain a skin they like? As a veteran player, however, I have to say I’m against it. It’s not out of any ill will towards new players or those who missed the events. It’s just that, from a personal viewpoint, I had to make time to play the game and put in the effort to earn those reward skins, and as such they are a symbol of my participation in the related events. If they are made available for purchase, that basically negates any value they have to me and invalidates my personal contribution to the story. I don’t really think Anet would do that to its vets, but in case they’re reading and considering, I say focus on new content and rewards so new players can experience that same feeling of accomplishment, rather than cheapening the whole shebang by offering badges of recognition for $5 a pop.

This would really upset those who earned the skin normally.

Aye, the issue with this is the fact that it would make actually doing content in order to get the rewards basically pointless, since anyone can just buy it half a year later.

And lets be honest, most people do play for the rewards rather than the story.

Another terrible idea. Nothing is holy to people nowadays.