Guild Wars 2

Foreword: Please refrain from conspiracy mongering or angry/negative comments about the Gem Shop or any associated employees who work on it. Posts that derail the topic will be reported.

I have a few suggestions for the Gem Store, and I hope the Monetization Producer employee (who will remain unnamed) will take note!

• Offer ExtravagantTown Clothing! This has been a common suggestion, but I’d like to point out that less fancyTown Clothing skins should also be available through normal gameplay, and prestige skins should be available ONLY through gameplay.

• Offer less random grab-bags, more direct products. I’m no economist, and I don’t have the professional experience to back any claims that RNG are a bad idea. It’s worked well in other games before. However, I personally feel grab-bag offerings should be kept to a minimum, and only to Dyes and Event Chests.

• 1h, 6h, 24h or 1 week Waypoint Tickets. Eliminates waypoint costs completely for the duration of the account upgrade.

• More Freebies! – Keep at least one monthly freebie up on the Gem Store at all times. A single item, changed out once a month. It could be a hat, or a pair of gloves, or a common minipet.

• Unlimited/High-Capacity items – Yes, I realize that offering an unlimited item means somebody won’t buy it a second time… so offer it at a steeper price. Offer unlimited bank/merchant/trader summoners for a heavier price. Offer multiple use repair canisters (50 uses?). Multiple use boosters, or better quality boosters. Offer unlimited tonics. Deluxe versions of other items may just sell well.

• Armor & Weapon Skins – You can continue offering both of those through your chests, but consider adding different sets through direct sales similar to how you handle costumes. Leave the super sexy stuff in the chests if you like… but I personally would have purchased a box of Halloween armor transmuters for the holiday.

There are all sorts of other ideas out there. Let’s see what the rest of the community has to offer?

I agree the gem shop is lackluster. I would buy the costumes if there were some good ones. I bought them in GW1. Also, make them like GW1 so I can wear my stat armor but show my pretty clothes. I did buy the witch costume and love it except the hat makes me look bald.

I would buy minis if I could see what I was getting. I am not a gambler, I don’t like surprises. I bought the Halloween minis because I knew what I was getting.

How about musical instruments? LotR had instruments and you could even download music and put together a band and play actual songs. Wouldn’t have to be that elaborate, but instruments with their own song would be cool. Or make it like the pipe organ in game where if equipped, you get keys to play your own music.

Toys. A ball to throw. Party favors that you blow that uncurl and make a noise.

I keep hoping to see new things in the shop. When something catches my eye that is pay X amount and get what you see, I’ll buy it. If it is pay X amount and you have a very slim chance of getting it, I’ll keep money and buy something “real” with it.

The only thing that bugged me with Gem Store is they are not ‘selling everything’, instead for example, like some things from the Consortium Chest, you will have specifically gamble real gems to get it, no other way. At least you could get free keys for BL chests.

And that Chainsaw pet from Halloween? I’ll have to burn 500 gems in the forge for it, which in the end, got me pretty uninterested with the whole pet collection thingy.

More armor that skins over normal combat armor.

More permanent stuff. EG bag slots should be account wide. I’d love to pay for that, but not on a per-character basis. Also drops on BLC should be buffed immensely up to the point the chest at least sells for 1s on the TP.

But I do think the cash shop will become more prominent as time goes on. I paid 150 euros for the box, they should have the money to keep the game running for the time being. Cash shop will become more important when it becomes for important to generate new revenue. That’s a given.

Personally, I think they should design dungeons around players only being able to die a certain number of times and teammates would have to revive them (no way pointing inside dungeons), then add in a revive item to the cash shop for a reasonable price (Vindictus had this down wonderfully if they want to reference a game that went decently about this sort of thing; it’s not reliant on players buying it, but can serve as a nice “oops our party goofed” sort of thing lol). It would make the dungeons more difficult because then those players that play in my pugs would stop corpse rushing and maybe actually start thinking a bit…

Costume skins (Fine as town clothes, but we definitely should get a better variety of them in the cash shop)… that’s about the only thing I want to see actually (I’ve played many f2p’s and that’s all I buy; I don’t waste time with rng items)

Less RNG more straight up buy what you what. I have only bought 5 keys but I have bought: 1 Witch’s outfit, 1 Halloween mini pack, 1 Pirate outfit , 1 phantom hood, 1 bank expansion. I plan on buying more bank slots and Character slots (another point I would like a LoTRO/Rift style system for Town clothes, I would buy more appearance items then, and a better system for Mini’s.).