Guild Wars 2

I’m not saying that I curently, even if the Gem Shop would contain what I wanted, would spend any of my money on buying Gems. Right now I’m just way to disappointed with Arena Net due to broken promises and the grindy as hell FotM dungeon.

But, if Arena Nets want me to ever spend money on Gems the shop should contain things that make me want to have them. And just to make that clear, useless town cloth and Black Lion Keys most definitively don’t make me want them, in fact, I couldn’t care less about them.

What I want is:
- unique weapon and armor skins
- new animations for my skills
- different dances and other emotes

I think your prayers will be answered soon. You can then spend money like a kid in a candy store till the cows come home. Sad.

I’d agree with them only iff the unique weapon and armor skills are non-tradeable. (which will most likely be the case).

Add ascended armor to the list. I haven’t stepped one foot inside the FotM instance, and never plan on it. I’d be willing to spend $50 bucks for a full ascended armor set if/when if releases, however.

MrSilver.5269:

Add ascended armor to the list. I haven’t stepped one foot inside the FotM instance, and never plan on it. I’d be willing to spend $50 bucks for a full ascended armor set if/when if releases, however.

No way. It will never happen.

You can’t buy exotics off the gem store either. You earn those from karma or gold or dungeon runs or WvW.

Just play the game, or don’t. It’s your choice really.

MrSilver.5269:

Add ascended armor to the list. I haven’t stepped one foot inside the FotM instance, and never plan on it. I’d be willing to spend $50 bucks for a full ascended armor set if/when if releases, however.

If something like that ever happens the game will die instantly.

nachtnebel.9168:

MrSilver.5269:

Add ascended armor to the list. I haven’t stepped one foot inside the FotM instance, and never plan on it. I’d be willing to spend $50 bucks for a full ascended armor set if/when if releases, however.

If something like that ever happens the game will die instantly.

And I think it would be a shame if it died instantly because of that.

I’ve commented on cash shops in other games’ forums, and it seems like they are always unfair, targeting one type of player at the exclusion of others.

I’d like to see more items that a [sarcastic quotes]real[/sarcastic quotes] player would want. Those typical fall into the P2W category, but so what? It’s only a problem because of a narrow definition of what winning is (Charlie Sheen jokes aside).

To me, winning is town clothes, armor skins, pets, bag space, hoarding, DEs, WvW, Hearts, Alts, helping people, loitering around the lands on foot seeing what sort of trouble I can get in to.

To me, winning isn’t The Sword of 1000 Truths, Dungeons, things called something else that are just Dungeons, any mechanic under any name that puts you together with 4 other people and you can listen to them belittle you and each other and occasionally say ‘just kidding’, as if that magically makes it all better (dungeons, raids).

To you, or other people, maybe [sarcastic quote]most[/sarcastic quote] people, what I don’t find winning, ya’ll find to be winning.

The bottom line is what you find in the stores across games tends to be the things that “I” feel help me ‘win’ (<- have fun? that’s basically winning, right? if you came away from the experience feeling you had fun, got your money’s worth, etc…you won?), but never have items that [sarcastic quotes]normal players[/sarcastic quotes] would consider winning.

And really, the min/maxer, Call of Doody, Military Industrial Complex, Alpha Dog, ’Mer’ca’ folks are fine with that, because they ‘know’ they got a subscription less game, with a cash shop that allows them to have a subscription-less game, that I’m paying for.

So of course you wouldn’t want anything in there that you’d never consider buying.

I’m fine with the concept of a cash shop. I monitor myself. I buy $10 worth of gems every month, and buy some things. I bought 2 bank spaces, 2 extra character bag slots (1 for each of 2 characters), a stack of Fine Trans Stones on sale, and the Witch’s outfit, because I wanted the broom and the boots (though I wish the boots didn’t have little bones on them).

I’d love more town clothes. I’d like more armor skins. I don’t care for weapon skins so much, unless they are subtle and attractive (not a fan of two handed swords that look like surf boards). I’d like to see armor skins and town clothing become more like dyes (though a topic for another discussion).

I’d also like the shop to carry items that ‘all’ types of players would be tempted to buy, including the min/max folks. For better or worse, that would undoubtedly take the shape of items that have statistics, and you’d call pay to win. Wouldn’t help ‘me’ win. I wouldn’t buy it.

And yes, I realize my view is completely crazy. But it is just that, a point of view.

Really no reason not to add gear to the gem store. It’s just a way to buy your way out of grinding. They’re going to need to sooner or later for monetization purposes.

nachtnebel.9168:

- unique weapon and armor skins
- new animations for my skills
- different dances and other emotes

All of the above, also:

- makeover kits, both simple and extreme
- new customization options: hairstyles, color options, face and body templates
- cloaks
- way less “renting” or gambling style purchases, more honest cash-for-(digital) goods

Contentious, but I’d kinda like to see:

- dual spec
- mounts
- HoM rewards

Jairyn.6913:

nachtnebel.9168:

- unique weapon and armor skins
- new animations for my skills
- different dances and other emotes

All of the above, also:

- makeover kits, both simple and extreme
- new customization options: hairstyles, color options, face and body templates
- cloaks
- way less “renting” or gambling style purchases, more honest cash-for-(digital) goods

Contentious, but I’d kinda like to see:

- dual spec
- mounts
- HoM rewards

The dual spec is an interesting one. Clearly, not required, as it only costs 4s to ‘respec’, and you eventually will have skill points coming out of your ears. But what would be nice (and would need to come with some UI modifications) is the ability to purchase ‘saved’ specs from the store. A second, third, forth, really no reason why it would need to end.

What is nice about that idea is it ‘is’ the type of thing a min/max type person might want to buy with money, to make playing more convenient. It doesn’t target ‘fluff’ store buyers, and many might not be interested in that one at all. It isn’t P2W. It just makes it so if you have developed a play style where you would like completely different builds for PvP vs WvW vs PvE vs Dungeon and be able to flip to them (out of combat, of course) on the fly, and only pay the 4s once for each additional build, then there you go.

Nice idea.

@notebene
You are clearly a member of ther minority of the players. Most people don’t want to see P2W Items in shops. It might be fine for you, but almost everyone else has a problem with it and therefor the game would probably die if the ever add P2W items to the shop.

nachtnebel.9168:

MrSilver.5269:

Add ascended armor to the list. I haven’t stepped one foot inside the FotM instance, and never plan on it. I’d be willing to spend $50 bucks for a full ascended armor set if/when if releases, however.

If something like that ever happens the game will die instantly.

Agreed.

It´s because of morons like Mr.Silver, that locusts like Nexon and their pay 2 win philosophy exists.

Take heed missus Crystin Cox.
For ever Mr. Silver there are at least 5 other guys disgusted by this attitude.
And as this isn´t some Asian kittengrinder, your job( &ANet ) will soon be gone if you try too many of those Nexon shenanigans in here.