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Posted by: Mint Rain.6798

Mint Rain.6798

Dear Devs,

Hello again! As to keep this fairly simple and brief, I’m going to cut right to the chase and hope that this provides you with as much detail as possible.

As you’re aware, there is an entire roleplay community, spread over multiple servers, that have all been asking for one thing in particular. Chairs. Now, in an earlier discussion about this, it had been mentioned that chairs were difficult to add into the game (we’re talking about chairs we can sit on), due to the different seating portions. So I took some time to think about how this could be adjusted.

And I figured it out!

One of the biggest things that ArenaNet has to manage is their money. Any gaming company has to. The argument that players can just convert game gold to gems is still a valid one, but I’ll be the first to admit that even I’m lazy when something super cools comes out and I want it now.

Now, we’re already aware that NPCs have the ability to sit on things. That means, the code itself is in the game, it’s just not readily available to every player. So the idea, and solution?

Sell chairs on the trading post/gem store. Now, I know you’re not here to tend to just the RP community, and yes, this would be a huge but absolutely loved vanity for us. So I’ll speak for the PvE and PvP community as well. As someone who used to be a hardcore PvPer I can certainly vouch for the amount of, “LOL I BEAT YOU,” attitude that people have. Whipping out a chair and sitting it down on someone’s face after battle would provide entertainment for the winner, and a fussy-pout for the loser. For those who enjoy PvE? Well, they buy flutes and other vanities, don’t they?

That gets me into how it would work. The chair would be much like your flute, where it sits in your bag. You could use it in Town Clothing, or in Armor, and double click it. You would then have the option to sit on the chair. You could even add extra things in, like dance on the chair, or with the chair, depending on how many skills you’d like it to have.
Update:
When it comes to skills: You could add the five basic race seats (1-5), 6 could be sit/stop sitting, 7-9 would be vanity or empty, and then your exit.

Overall, you’d be gaining:
Gem sales
Happy consumers

Thank you for taking the time to read this.
~Mint.

(edited by Mint Rain.6798)

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Posted by: Mint Rain.6798

Mint Rain.6798

Writer’s Note
I used the term “Trading Post,” simply because I (and others) identify the trading post with the gem store (same button). I do mean selling it on the Gem Store (hence gem store sales!).

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Posted by: Black Moon.6075

Black Moon.6075

I think I speak for many a people who’d say, “TAKE IT, TAKE ALL OF MY MONEY!” Jokes aside, the suggestion the OP has wrote is WONDERFUL. So many wonderful things could be done with an item such as that! Please, please Anet…Pretty please with sugar on top!

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Posted by: ShadowGirl.2687

ShadowGirl.2687

I would adore this. Perhaps over time there could be more chair items, as well? This is a wonderful idea and I would love to see it implemented.

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Posted by: Curae.1837

Curae.1837

Yes. This so much!
I would love to be able to drag out a chair to sit on. Or to just have a ledge-sitting animation in general…
It is so frustrating to see npc’s sitting on chairs, yet your character forgot how to use a chair in a proper way…

I love this suggestion and would happily spend gems on it…

“When we remember that we are all mad.
The mysteries dissapear and life stands explained.”

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Posted by: Steen.1056

Steen.1056

All of my yes on this one! Chairs would add a much-needed animation for every single roleplayer (and there’s kind of a lot)! As a roleplayer myself, I can’t say how many times I’ve frowned at the fact that when I try to sit on something, my character clips halfway through, making it look like my character is about to give birth. Must be incredibly uncomfortable.
We don’t ask for much, but chairs would make a HUGE difference, that’s for sure!

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Posted by: The Black Fox.6381

The Black Fox.6381

I would love chairs, they could even make different varieties of chairs too, like a beach chair, lounge chair, study chair and hell, maybe even a bench that seats 2-3 people using a similar function to the “Invite to Dance” one (Though that would probably end up race restricted due to size differences)

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Posted by: Schlofi.5082

Schlofi.5082

All my money on chairs.. really. I wouldn’t even mind stools! Heck I want this so much I would even pay for a table to sit on if that’s easier.

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Posted by: Wings.5140

Wings.5140

Give. Gimme. Gimme gimme gimme. Nooowwww!

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Posted by: Auruan.2837

Auruan.2837

Yes. Yes! YES!
If this were comparable to the instruments and had a similar price, I’d easily spend some real coin on obtaining one. Also, an overlapping feature where one can sit down, then play the instrument will be very nice.

Lots of things to do with this. Different styles of seats depending on the race that uses it. Perhaps a heavy iron bar stools for Charr so their tail animations don’t go awry and so forth.

Yep. I’d love this!

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Posted by: Fny.4502

Fny.4502

This is an awesome idea, I really hope it can be turned into reality! I know I would pay gems to get my own chair…

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Posted by: BrandenburgAngel.7561

BrandenburgAngel.7561

I would, without hesitation, drop $30 to have a chair. I would do this for ALL of my characters- and I have seven at the moment. This would be absolutely and completely amazing to have. Just the IDEA of having a chair fairly -glows- to my mind. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and all of my YES. ANet, I sincerely hope you take this into serious consideration because I can promise you that the money spent on programming, designing and implementing the chairs would be made back within a fortnight and profit would ROLL in.

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Posted by: belugachef.9654

belugachef.9654

I would pay gems to buy a chair, personally. And there’re already models in-game for race specific furniture. Not that I know much about coding, but still.

It seems like such a simple request, to be able to sit on a designated chairs in areas in PvE. Such as a tavern or enterable structure.

And if you aren’t willing/able to do that, I can compromise with a TP/Gem Store Item. But, I wonder how difficult it would be to make those new animations of sitting…

P.S. If you ever sell chairs in the TP, PLEASE MAKE THEM ACCOUNT WIDE.

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Posted by: Kalidri.5427

Kalidri.5427

See, I’d pay for this and honestly I have non-RPing buddies in game who would also use it just to hang around on, I think it would be an incredibly popular item!

Goseldt – TC/[TLS]/I just wanna dance.

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Posted by: kwizz.7069

kwizz.7069

I am a lover of all things sitting and seat-related, and would jump at any opportunity to purchase or obtain some sort of chair/stool/stump to sit on! If this was incorporated in -any- way to the game, I would throw all my money at GW2!

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Posted by: Halski.3849

Halski.3849

I would definitely buy sittable chairs. All of my yes. And really, it can’t be harder than all those dancing animations…

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Posted by: Constance.9781

Constance.9781

I would buy a chair my characters can sit on from the gem store.

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Posted by: Maldracai.2698

Maldracai.2698

I don’t really spend much on the gem store (for financial reasons AND there’s little there that interests me at the moment), but this…. THIS I would pay for.

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Posted by: Banono.4597

Banono.4597

I’d buy this and extra emotes all day if they would make them.

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Posted by: Rouven.7409

Rouven.7409

I like the idea, but I’d rather see it incorporated into crafting using different tiers of wood and leather. Maybe even different cloths if we are thinking a beach chair with a sun umbrella or metals if we are going with a “throne”.

“Whose Kitten is this?” – “It’s a Charr baby.”
“Whose Charr is this?”- “Ted’s.”
“Who’s Ted?”- “Ted’s dead, baby. Ted’s dead.”

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Posted by: belugachef.9654

belugachef.9654

I like the idea, but I’d rather see it incorporated into crafting using different tiers of wood and leather. Maybe even different cloths if we are thinking a beach chair with a sun umbrella or metals if we are going with a “throne”.

Crafting props that come with emotes? That’s a crazy idea. I like it.

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Posted by: Ilanthe.8659

Ilanthe.8659

Chairs for my butt. Do this. Please.

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Posted by: Ceallach.8740

Ceallach.8740

Imagine people sitting on thrones and lawn chairs outside the bank.

I vote yes. I would totally buy a lawnchair for the lulz. I’m sure that RPers would appreciate serious chairs as well, but I would love a lawn chair with balloons and cup holders because I am a small child (at heart) who is unable to take anything seriously.

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Posted by: Kanto.1659

Kanto.1659

Adding a +1 to this.

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Posted by: Pepsi.3176

Pepsi.3176

No, I’d rather they just allow us to sit in the chairs already in game.

sailortyria

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Posted by: Banono.4597

Banono.4597

No, I’d rather they just allow us to sit in the chairs already in game.

That would be awesome, but Anet has already said due to the height differences between characters it was not something they could do.

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Posted by: Wubdor.5190

Wubdor.5190

Yes, please. I very much support this idea.

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Posted by: Yarasa.8271

Yarasa.8271

I think this an awesome idea and I support it 100%. I would definitely buy chairs from the trading post. I agree that they should be made account bound rather than soul bound though.

The only problem I see with this is that there are already so many existing chairs in buildings and such that there would be problems with over crowding. But I’m sure I speak for the rest of us when I say if you removed some of those we wouldn’t miss them in the least.

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Posted by: Hex Kor.4089

Hex Kor.4089

Yes please!

While I would much prefer the ability to sit in a chair that is already in-game, I would absolutely LOVE to have a chair I could pull out and sit on anywhere!

I’m a Role player, and I’d love to sit around a table for RP.
I’m an avid PvPer, and I’d love to pull out a chair and sit on my vanquished foes!
I’m a PvEer, and I’d love to take out a chair and sit while I’m waiting on someone for a dungeon!

Also, I’d absolutely love it if the chair had skills! 1-9 could be used for different sitting positions! While a few of my characters would sit in the chair very appropriately, I have others who’d lean forward, cross their legs, throw a leg over the arm rest as they relax, and other such things!

If this game to the gem store, I’d buy it IMMEDIATELY!

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Posted by: Donari.5237

Donari.5237

I suggested this basic idea many months back (admittedly I got the idea from Aion in which /sit had your character deploy a stool and sit primly on that) but this post develops it into sheer magnificence. And then Hex Kor takes it to the next level with letting us choose sitting position moment to moment YES PLEASE.

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Posted by: Mint Rain.6798

Mint Rain.6798

Maybe there could be a bar, like on the flute (using it for reference), with a new selection of skills. Those could be poses?

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Posted by: Requiem.8769

Requiem.8769

Oh, the possibilities…
Thrones, stools, armchairs, rocking chairs, benches….

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Posted by: belugachef.9654

belugachef.9654

Might be a bit late, but would I love a Winter’s Day Throne…

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Mint Rain.6798

I’d like a chair for Wintersday?