Guild Wars 2

I wanted to gift a collection expansion to one of my friend. He hoard a lot of the items in game and is always willing to share and I thought I would purchase him an extra colltion expansion for all the hard work he does collecting.

However I have noticed that I am not able to give this item as a gift. It is a bug or was this intended?

Intended, sadly.

Perhaps because they don’t want the sale to apply? I bought the axe as a gift, the day before it left the store.. The sale is on now, but it would not have benefitted me because of that.

I want to give gifts, but haven’t seen anything worth giving that is giftable right now. I’d give character slots, bank tabs, all that stuff.. But boosters and garbage town clothing? No way.

It’s the same as everything else in real life.. The thing you really want is never on sale

All account related services are non-giftable. This includes bank expansion, collectable expander, character slots and more.

Some of these items have limits and there’s no way for you to verify (other than word of mouth) that the user isn’t already maxed out. There’s other reasons for this as well.

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

Perhaps because they don’t want the sale to apply? I bought the axe as a gift, the day before it left the store.. The sale is on now, but it would not have benefitted me because of that.

I want to give gifts, but haven’t seen anything worth giving that is giftable right now. I’d give character slots, bank tabs, all that stuff.. But boosters and garbage town clothing? No way.

It’s the same as everything else in real life.. The thing you really want is never on sale

Or maybe, just maybe, it is because you might gift him something he has already maxed, and thus it would be a completely worthless gift, since they are account-bound on acquire.

that sucks that we are not able to gift the item

They said anything that could have a player limit can’t be gifted.

I hope they will unlock gifting for account upgrades.

But what if the player you are gifting already upgraded? That’s the problem. The current system doesn’t/can’t check if what you are gifting, a gift that can only be applied a limited number of times, has hit the limit and block the transaction from going through.

I didn’t think of that..

There is no maximum number of character slots, from what I have read from at least one red tag on here. Can that be changed?

I’ve seen talk as high as 60 character slots but I don’t remember seeing an actual limit mentioned. There is in all likelihood one, just beyond what the vast majority will every get close to.

I believe the current limit for character slots are 64.

Well I am very glad I looked here before buying gems…. while I would buy some other upgrades, they too would be considered ‘account upgrades’ and I would not be able to gift them -_-

From the way it sounded on https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-the-holiday-gifting-event/ …even reading it again ‘everything blah blah’ … ah well

George.8192:

Well I am very glad I looked here before buying gems…. while I would buy some other upgrades, they too would be considered ‘account upgrades’ and I would not be able to gift them -_-

From the way it sounded on https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-the-holiday-gifting-event/ …even reading it again ‘everything blah blah’ … ah well

But there wouldn’t be a gift button next to the buy button to begin with. You have to gift first and if the option simply isn’t there then that stops you from doing anything stupid.

It’s gift item first, buy same item for yourself at 40% off second. Makes it tough to shoot yourself in the foot that way.

If you really feel that this is your only way to show your appreciation to your friend, go and buy a visa gift card from a store and send him the information. That way he can go ahead and buy the upgrades but you dont hand out your personal information.

Sororita.3465:

If you really feel that this is your only way to show your appreciation to your friend, go and buy a visa gift card from a store and send him the information. That way he can go ahead and buy the upgrades but you dont hand out your personal information.

Ok, I am curious … what ‘personal information’ would it be that you would be giving out if you were to gift something account based?

Would it not be the account name gifting to and from only (that they would see) ? George.8192 gifts xxx to Sororita.3465 ?

George.8192:

Sororita.3465:

If you really feel that this is your only way to show your appreciation to your friend, go and buy a visa gift card from a store and send him the information. That way he can go ahead and buy the upgrades but you dont hand out your personal information.

Ok, I am curious … what ‘personal information’ would it be that you would be giving out if you were to gift something account based?

Would it not be the account name gifting to and from only (that they would see) ? George.8192 gifts xxx to Sororita.3465 ?

He/She is saying if you want to give someone a gift but it’s an item that can’t be gifted, you can go buy them a visa gift card and give them the card number. If you sent them money or paypal, they will see your personal info (name, address….)

cranked.3812:

He/She is saying if you want to give someone a gift but it’s an item that can’t be gifted, you can go buy them a visa gift card and give them the card number. If you sent them money or paypal, they will see your personal info (name, address….)

Bingo, its a safer way, in my opinion, to gift items from the gem store that cant be gifted by in game means. itll cost you a fee for activating a card but you dont have to give any personal information out.

Behellagh.1468:

George.8192:

Well I am very glad I looked here before buying gems…. while I would buy some other upgrades, they too would be considered ‘account upgrades’ and I would not be able to gift them -_-

From the way it sounded on https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-the-holiday-gifting-event/ …even reading it again ‘everything blah blah’ … ah well

But there wouldn’t be a gift button next to the buy button to begin with. You have to gift first and if the option simply isn’t there then that stops you from doing anything stupid.

It’s gift item first, buy same item for yourself at 40% off second. Makes it tough to shoot yourself in the foot that way.

Ahh…but first I’d purchase gems from store, then having paid for the gems…I would have discovered I could not gift the items I desired (my poor shot foot)

I am not even aware of a ‘gift button’ but I will look in game next time. I guess the things you are allowed to gift are nothing that I wanted for myself or others.

Sororita.3465:

cranked.3812:

He/She is saying if you want to give someone a gift but it’s an item that can’t be gifted, you can go buy them a visa gift card and give them the card number. If you sent them money or paypal, they will see your personal info (name, address….)

Bingo, its a safer way, in my opinion, to gift items from the gem store that cant be gifted by in game means. itll cost you a fee for activating a card but you dont have to give any personal information out.

Ah, I had not considered giving a prepaid visa card. Specifically my only thoughts were getting the 40% discount to gift. I would not be tempted a bit except for this discount (and I presume that was the thought of the original poster of thread)

I wonder if I could gift gems and then purchase gems for the discount, for that would accomplish my purpose…I presume not, but I guess I’ll watch forums before I consider that.