Guild Wars 2

Just a rant… Why do I need to buy additional bag slots for each individual character? That’s going to add up to a lot! Why can’t purchasing an expansion apply to all your characters on the account?

If one account wide slot is 700 gems for all characters and one bag is 20 slots for 400 gems for one character, how much do you think they would charge for 20 slots for up to 70 characters?

Gosh I miss read this topic. I was thinking YESSSSSS must buy… Account wide inventory bag slot.

I refuse to buy these until this is changed. I’m annoyed enough that I can’t ditch characters I don’t like if I have high crafting level on them.

This, this, this. Unlocking slots only for each individual character is just absurd. I mean, I’d do it in a heartbeat, were I a millionaire. But how many millionaires are really playing this game?

Same goes for the harvesting tools in the gem store. Account-wide harvesting tool slot would REALLY be appreciated, until then I’m not going to buy them.

I’ll buy bag slots per character on my account for 400gems each over buying anymore than the 6 sharded inventory slots I have already. Shared bag slot pricing? I will seriously stop playing the game if they pull another BS shared-slot money grab again. Despite what I’m willing to spend in the gemstore I have my limits on what bold face I will tolerate.

Justine.6351:

I’ll buy bag slots per character on my account for 400gems each over buying anymore than the 6 sharded inventory slots I have already. Shared bag slot pricing? I will seriously stop playing the game if they pull another BS shared-slot money grab again. Despite what I’m willing to spend in the gemstore I have my limits on what bold face I will tolerate.

I think what they’re asking for is not shared inventory, but “Pay this price, and all characters gain a bag slot” rather than “Pay this price, and one character gains a bag slot”. Basically, making bag slots an account wide upgrade, instead of per character.

Palador.2170:

Justine.6351:

I’ll buy bag slots per character on my account for 400gems each over buying anymore than the 6 sharded inventory slots I have already. Shared bag slot pricing? I will seriously stop playing the game if they pull another BS shared-slot money grab again. Despite what I’m willing to spend in the gemstore I have my limits on what bold face I will tolerate.

I think what they’re asking for is not shared inventory, but “Pay this price, and all characters gain a bag slot” rather than “Pay this price, and one character gains a bag slot”. Basically, making bag slots an account wide upgrade, instead of per character.

um ya I know. And if it costs 35$ for 5 slots what you think it cost for a potential 20 slot ?

Edit:
oh I get what you are saying, but ya still what you think they would price it for? 4 characters or 10 lol.

What they’re essentially doing is charging 20 gems per new slot. Bank tabs are 600 gems for 30 slots, bag slots are 400 gems for a theoretical 20 slots.

If you just need space and you don’t care about convenience, the cheapest way to add more inventory to your account is to by a character slot and make them a mule. ArenaNet is aware of this and says they feel the added convenience of other options makes up for the price difference. Personally, I’m inclined to think that what you’re really doing when you buy more inventory space is buying more space on their servers, and character slots are being sold at a relative discount (I’d call them a loss leader, but I don’t really think 100 slots worth of space is really costing them 800 gems worth).

While I’ve bought 2-3 bag slots, I’d have to say that I do not consider a bag slot for one character to be worth the price. That said, I also don’t feel that I can say anything beyond that about ANet’s business decisions. How they price items is up to them.

I view extra inventory space as a convenience item. So, I make do with 92-100 inventory slots per character. This tends to mean I don’t carry multiple sets of gear, and perhaps process drops more often than I otherwise might. It’s a choice I make in order to not spend the RL cash (or gold) to get the remaining extra bag slots for my 12 characters.

On a hypothetical level, I wonder what an account-wide bag slot would cost, given the potential loss of revenue from the sale of individual slots. MMO players tend to balk at high-priced game store items. Someone who might think nothing of spending $50 across a few months for 10 bag slots for 2-3 characters might indeed choose not to spend that $50 as a lump sum for one account-wide slot — even though it would be a better deal if they had more than 10 characters. So, any price that ANet might consider reasonable would probably be viewed as “too high” by some elements of the poster-base.

That said, I do consider the account-wide inventory slots to be worthwhile. I bought 3 on top of the free one, and have a copper-fed and three perma harvesting tools in them. That alone saved me ~17 inventory slots per character on a permanent basis (I used to carry 4 of each tool and 5 basic salvage kits per character as a matter of course).