Guild Wars 2

I kinda like the idea since there are alot of colors (415 Dyes) you can obtain. So you got my vote!

Aswell, they could add an achievement for collecting all the Dyes. Including a title on completion.

I think many people have been wanting this for a while. I do not know what their thinking is behind it except possibly they are using dyes as a money sink to help regulate the economy. If everyone had all the dyes, then no one would need to buy them.

Another issue is, if they implement it now, they would have to find a way to reimburse the people who have already purchased 3 or so Abyss Dyes, and it is difficult to reimburse on a value that is player controlled.

But I do wish they had put this in from the start…

Honestly, I dont see any reason they have to reimburse, as long as I got the functionality; and you would still need to obtain 415 of them if you wanted them all, so people would still be buying them up.

I approve of this. +1

Well, I honestly don’t know what to think of this.

On one hand, I have most of the dyes on my main unlocked, so that would be a lot of colours for the rest of my guys,

On the other, what it would mean is that everyone who has alts, which is probably a good majority of the player base, would suddenly not need to use so many dyes. I fear that this added to the fact that dyes don’t have a minimum NPC price would result in at least the Common variety of dyes being absolutely worthless.

Of course, if they did something about the dyes not being NPCable, that might avert the issue. Something like 50 copper for Common (aka Fine), 1 Silver for Uncommon (aka Masterwork) and 10 Silver for Rare (aka Rare).

I don’t understand how it’d stop people from buying.

I currently have zero incentive to buy ANY dyes except for the ones I’m positive I’ll be using. Besides, new players come in daily – they’d buy it.

It’s quite annoying that I’d have to pay 20+ gold two or three times for an item I already bought just so my other toons can enjoy the same dyes. I support a ’’wallet’’ kind of function for dyes!

They should finall make dyes accountbound for at least dying our equipment..
Dyes should get for that to work a new term – “personal bonded”
an item, that is personal bonded just is accountbound for certain personal game mechanics, but still sellable to others so that they can use it for somethign else, that is not personally bonded to them, like my housing suggestion that folliows right now at the bottom of my posting…

Anet is always in the possition to add more new types of colors to the game to get the dye motor for the economy to restart again so that people have to buy some new colors..

Just think of all the flame and frost colors they introduced after the game was released. Do you honestly belive, that Anet can’t do this again and again as often as needed over some long course of time??

Or make at least a split at the system, making all 415 dyes from the main game account bound and only the new dyes which get added later to the game like those FF dyes character bound.
Both would work perfectly!

And also, then there are still other ways to use colors which could be used for future content stuff, like Housing so that dyes can stay something what you want to buy from people, like dyes to buy to create with them pictures/portraits for your own home instance for example !!

Plus there are already other things in the game, that require dyes, like making Bifröst for exampl,e one of the legendary weapons requires dyes to build it.

Players should be able to put 4 dyes into the mystic forge and receive then 1 unidentified dye for them.
This would create another way to keep players buying dyes from others to turn them into unidentifyed dyes which can be then either used for making Bifröst, or for having a chance for receiving a rarer dye or in general a dye, that they don’t have yet…
It would be also a nice way to get rid of countless double and tripple dyes of the same type, if you don’t want to sell them.. just put them into the forge and get out of multiple dyes a new unidentified dye back …

That would also help in raising a bit the worth of alot of totally cheap dyes that currently sell all for just a few copper only, if there would be a way to make out of unwanted double/tripple dyes an unidentified dye…

It wouldn’t be too hard to reimburse people for having multiple dyes, all they would have to do is count copies from multiple accounts and add any excess dyes in their consumable form back to the inventory of the player, probably in the form of mail messages to avoid crowding inventory :P It could be done the same way they wrote the code for the wallet, in a roundabout way.
However their reasoning for not allowing account dyes has been stated: Anet said that it was part of the feeling of progress with a character to have each one need its own dyes. Which is odd, because I can farm for dungeon tokens and effectively buy skins for my other characters with my only level 80. So I completely agree with you.

How about this:

If you combine 3 copies of a dye with a X in the Mystic Forge you can get an account copy of the dye.

I would love the idea of having account bound dyes. The introduction of the wallet shows that something like this can be possible.

For those doubting the market; The market would still be there as what has been said before; new players come in regularly. And then you have the introduction of extremely rare dyes which you could only obtain through an event that will not be making a return; such as the Flame and Frost Dyes, which will continue to stimulate the market on the dye end, so long as those who have them unused will sell them.
On most servers though; Dyes are not expensive, so there really is no market for them unless they are the closest to three natural colors: Red, Black, and White.

If this were to be introduced; A reimbursement of duplicate dyes across accounts would be wonderful.

I agree.
I wont buy a dye now because I would have to buy it for each character. So until there is a ‘dye pouch’ or something, I wont be buying any dyes

I know a ton of people that feel the same way, they don’t want to buy any unless it’s more useful than it can be for just one of their characters. That’s why I think this suggestion is one that would be nice to have implemented.

+1 this
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I think this is a fantastic idea. +1!

+1 to that.
Mentioned in many threads anyway.
I sure hope to see it someday even for gems (thou I hope not).

+1 People have been asking/hoping for this since launch.

The only people that would probably get upset about it would be those who spent money on Abyss and/or Celestial dyes on multiple characters. Heck, I have multiples of those unlocked on my characters, and I still support this.

Well, like Samandiriel said, they could just count the extras out and mail them back, I think it would galvanize the market on dye because it would be usable on all your characters instead of just the one.

If this were implemented, dye prices would plummet, because people would only need 1 of each dye for their entire account. However, if they re-balance dye drops to be more rare, I don’t see a problem. Of course, ArenaNet would probably want to reimburse people who have used more than one of a particular dye (especially the rare dyes; otherwise some people might get upset).

They originally announced dyes as accountbound, then changed their minds. Working as intended, I doubt you’ll see a change (I know, this annoys me too). Considering dye packs cost quite a bit of money, they really have no incentive either – I am sure enough people spend a few gems here and there on those.

I don’t think I’ve ever posted on these boards before but I just wanted to up vote this.

I approve as well. i like collecting dyes as well but i don’t like doing it over and over for each of my character. since new people are always getting on this game. there will always be a need to buy them so that wont matter much.

TBH, it’s your own choice to buy an abyss dye, i never bought one because i don’t pay ridicules about of gold for just a dye.
account bound would help allot, no unlocking 10+ times the same dye and makes it easier to color your new toon the way you want.
better yet, in GW1 you can do this all the time so why not in GW2, it’s nothing more then a poor excuse to use the trading prices as a reason not to do it.

+1

I would love this since I plan on making multiple characters but the problem is some rare dyes are very costly such as white dyes .

Yep, make it happen. +1

+1 Its a must…

+1

Please check out my post since it is similar:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Dye-Achievement-and-Title