Guild Wars 2

Please consider just putting the new look in the gem store and allowing those of us that already purchased the original to keep it. Those that bought it already bought it for the looks. It is great that Anet has listened to the community and are working on a fix. However if we already have it we bought it because we like it. Let us keep it as you have already pulled it from the gem store. I know there will be a refund option if we don’t like the new look but I’d rather see the new look go on the gem store and those that already purchased it keep the old look.

Also consider people that bought gems with RWM just so they could buy the original set because they like the way it looked. Now they log in latter to see the new set and don’t like it. Sure they can get a gem refund but if they spent the money to buy the gems just for the set now they have gems as a refund but not gems for what they wanted.

It was a bad idea for them to retract the armor. Only the whiners are going to be the ones who post. The ones who love it and have no problem with it will be playing the game enjoying their new armor… not posting about it.

Keeping the skin for those who purchased it already would make a super-exclusive-extra-shiny-mega-limited-ultra-rare discontinued version of the most popular light cultural armor and suddenly make some accounts worth $1000s if sold illegally.

That’s more damaging than actually keeping the armor available.

On a refund note, people paid RWM for the gems. They get those gems back. No further entitlement as their purchased product was returned.

Very disappointed in the fact that I finally find a skin on trader I like, spend my money on two skins and now they are changing it. As someone who plays female characters I have a real hard time finding armor that’s feminine and revealing. Most of the armor appears much more masculine than feminine and barely shows your ankles. I wish female designers would be able to design the female armor. Not liking GW2 armor I’m very sad to say. Aion and Tera have much more feminine choices, so did GW1 (which I played for 7 yrs). I love the game, just want more armor choices and better designs. I don’t want to have to pay 100gold just to finally get a skin that shows some skin and is halfway sexy. JMO. Thanks.

Margarita Sublime.5708:

Very disappointed in the fact that I finally find a skin on trader I like, spend my money on two skins and now they are changing it. As someone who plays female characters I have a real hard time finding armor that’s feminine and revealing. Most of the armor appears much more masculine than feminine and barely shows your ankles. I wish female designers would be able to design the female armor. Not liking GW2 armor I’m very sad to say. Aion and Tera have much more feminine choices, so did GW1 (which I played for 7 yrs). I love the game, just want more armor choices and better designs. I don’t want to have to pay 100gold just to finally get a skin that shows some skin and is halfway sexy. JMO. Thanks.

Something wrong with MMOs is higher level “armor” ends up being more revealing. It’s just downright silly.

Incase Anet want suggestions/ideas as to what the redesign should look like…

I personally think the new redesign of the flamekissed armour should look identical in design and colour to destroyer weapons in particular, and possibly fused gauntlets too, so something like this:

Flissy.4093:

Keeping the skin for those who purchased it already would make a super-exclusive-extra-shiny-mega-limited-ultra-rare discontinued version of the most popular light cultural armor and suddenly make some accounts worth $1000s if sold illegally.

That’s more damaging than actually keeping the armor available.

On a refund note, people paid RWM for the gems. They get those gems back. No further entitlement as their purchased product was returned.

As i said in my own post since… Anet’s toes are right up to the lines of it becoming bait and switch scam because the armor is one buy, and other purchases could be linked, maybe a new hair-do or a makeover? new weapon skin? maybe they used some of those gems to top off a full set of crafted/bought armor? runes? dyes? etc… remove the armor, or replace with something that isn’t so close as to make the redux pointless and the reason for further purchases made beyond that armor set become void, and not refunding those too (or the money and changes made with other buys) might border possible legal issues is the nasty end of my point.

I suggest the following. I don’t know how the new Flamekissed will look like. I may like it and may not. If it’s cool, I’ll keep it. If it’s ugly like heavy and medium (no offence, just my own point of view) I want a refund. It’s great you’ve listened to the players and decided to remake the skin, but now the ones who spent their real money and bought gems for THIS VERY LOOK, are an aggrieved party and have to wait and guess what they will look like. Plainly saying, they’ve bought a pig in a poke. That’s no deal at all.

I require that after the change of this armor skin you refund the displeased players the spent gems and give them 6 Transmutation Gems to change the armor appearance.

If ArenaNet rectify their error, then they should do it accordigly to all the sides – those who bought cultural armor and displeased and those who bought a new skin and are now in questions. It will be fair enogh. Players who spent their gems don’t have to pay for Anet’s mistake at all.

neytiri.9105:

I suggest the following. I don’t know how the new Flamekissed will look like. I may like it and may not. If it’s cool, I’ll keep it. If it’s ugly like heavy and medium (no offence, just my own point of view) I want a refund. It’s great you’ve listened to the players and decided to remake the skin, but now the ones who spent their real money and bought gems for THIS VERY LOOK, are an aggrieved party and have to wait and guess what they will look like. Plainly saying, they’ve bought a pig in a poke. That’s no deal at all.

I require that after the change of this armor skin you refund the displeased players the spent gems and give them 6 Transmutation Gems to change the armor appearance.

If ArenaNet rectify their error, then they should do it accordigly to all the sides – those who bought cultural armor and displeased and those who bought a new skin and are now in questions. It will be fair enogh. Players who spent their gems don’t have to pay for Anet’s mistake at all.

As plainly said, removing the armor from the gem store and promising a redux with what is currently a shaky promise of “a full refund” with no idea what the armor will look like (the buyers DID buy THAT skin, not another), puts this into the realms of a bait and switch scam (think of GW1, the scam was to say you are selling 1 item, and put another with an identical icon (valueless) in it’s place), same thing. All be it, they certainly didn’t set out from word go as scammers tend to do, but they need to get very specific, very fast about all the what’s and how’s because my posts point out, that for me (and I refuse to believe I was the only one), a lot more real money went into other things that cost money to undo other ways, and that’s going to become a REALLY time consuming mess for the poor souls who have to go through line item to find and fix any and all other things surrounding the armor buy. I really think that making the original gripe (My T3 armor look is sacred to me..or whatever, same diff) worse by including more t3 armors would make more people happy, and fewer really mad. Sorry, but 119 gold is not hard to get (I have 4 full sets of T3 armors done 100% without gem buys, and a number of other single pieces to make mixed armor sets, IT AINT A LEGENDARY WEAPON), and I would be totally giddy if suddenly all these other T3 sets (all be it with those kinda awkward flames this time around lol) became available at a discount because gems would need to go north of 10g/100gems (by quite a bit, probably near 12g/100gems) to cause the prices to level between the sets, and yet..the sets still aren’t truly the same.

Gotta admit, the sadist in me says those who say their T3 is sacred need to have it knocked back down to it’s rare base stats to point out that they actually only bought a skin too

EDIT: i’m not rich at all btw… each set took me weeks, and the fact is that grinding out all that t3 has left me quite broke all the time… got the mansion, the porche and mercedes in the driveway, but no furniture in the house cause thats how i roll ;P