Guild Wars 2

+1 from me
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Agreed. This is how it was in GW1.

+1

I’d probably end up buying all the skin sets if this was ever changed. Should do the same thing with infinite gathering tools (just “withdraw” them on any character whenever you want)/misc other items as well.

Would love to see it happen, but doubt it will.
Would make me buy all the skins though, opposed to non (as they will just catch dust as I can’t decide which of my 8 alts to put it on).

Honestly the reason I DIDN’T buy the Halloween and Wintersday costumes is because they weren’t account-bound. I’d be more inclined to spend my money on things I knew would be there forever like they were in GW1.

This, do this plz!

Oddly enough, this suggestions is the same reason why Free to play MMOs are doing so well, and the reason Guild Wars 2 is such a blockbuster. The number of people that buy gem-store items is dwarfed by the community that simply doesn’t, but a large level of that would shift over in favor of purchasing if we could have our skins on demand rather than buy once and then have to pay again. I daresay I’d probably buy every form of armor skin on the trading post if the option to have them permanently was enabled, but as it stands I’ve bought all of one suit off there.

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Also, as a guy who loves (finds it necessary, really) to mix-n-match his armor, I would love to see each part of the armor sold individually (example: I love the Aetherblade medium hat, but don’t care for the rest of it- so I’d love to buy that hat alone for 1/5 the cost as opposed to spending 10 bucks on the entire set that I just won’t use outside the hat).

Major support from me. Should have been like this from day one. Also needs a WvW rank reset option – I’d pay gems for that.

Agreed. Like others, I would be more-inclined to buy all skins, even the ugly ones, just because they’d be permanent and reusable.

Yeah, I like to play dress up with my characters. Since I have 16 of them, buying gemstore skins is almost pointless. I’d be more than happy to buy all the armor skins, and MOST of the townclothes if they made them permanent unlocks.

I would love that, some of the gem armors are really nice!

+1 I would like this update.

Please do, ANet. You may see an upswing in Gem-skin purchases.

+ 1 i dont wanna spend 600 gems every time i wanna give my alt character unique skin. I wonder what ArenaNet think about it. It is worth to give us something like this – and do they have something to say about it?

Cash grab plane and simple…

banana.9038:

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I’d probably end up buying all the skin sets if this was ever changed. Should do the same thing with infinite gathering tools (just “withdraw” them on any character whenever you want)/misc other items as well.

I would pay more for an infinite gathering tool I can use on any character.

Yeah this’d be nice but I doubt they’d do it, that means they dont get as much money in the long run.

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

banana.9038:

+1

I’d probably end up buying all the skin sets if this was ever changed. Should do the same thing with infinite gathering tools (just “withdraw” them on any character whenever you want)/misc other items as well.

I would pay more for an infinite gathering tool I can use on any character.

Yeah this’d be nice but I doubt they’d do it, that means they dont get as much money in the long run.

I disagree, I think they would get more money in the long run. People who buy multiples of the same skin set are rare, which means little money from re-purchases. Yet there are many players out there who are collectors, and would be more than happy to buy up all the gemstore skins if they were a permanent unlocks, which means lots more cash through the shop. Which in turn ups the value of gems, and then people buy gems and convert them to gold. It circles on itself.