Guild Wars 2

Am i the only one who thinks Anet should make gemstore items a thing all one characters could wear at the same time??

Why would i want to spend gems on an item that only one of my characters can hold? It is like Anet only wants me to play one character. If Anet made Gemstore items account wide, i would be much more likely to buy gems in the game.
(and not only exchange ingame gold for gems.)

And if you wonder what i am talking about, i am talking about for an example the mining, lodging, harvesting tools and the bag pr. character expansion.
6 months ago i bought 1200gems ingame, i spend the 1000 gems on the “Watchwork Mining Pick”. When i found out it was not account wide, i said to myself “Why the h*** would i ever buy anything in this gemstore again?” I rarely use that Watchwork Mining Pick now, because i have 8 characters ingame, that i all play on and to be honest i really dont want to exchange mining picks every dahm time i change character.

Anyways the reason why i want to talk about this topic, is because of the recent patches. In the resent patches Anet has made some items ingame account wide like the miniatures and the outfits, I LOVED THAT. The result was that many of the people i know, wanted to buy Gemstore miniatures, because now it was more worth it.

If only Anet would realise, that the same thing would happen if they made some of the other items in the gemstore account wide.

What do you guys think?

It’s not really a secret that it’s set up like this because ANet wants you to buy more from the gemstore…That said they’ve been much cooler about this than they get credit for. What with all/most gemstore items being account wide (gathering tools used to be soulbound), the wallet (freeing up much space in bank and making karma/gold management way easier), wardrobe so you don’t have to hold on to excessive amounts of gemstore skins (again saving space), minis and dyes made account wide so you don’t have to buy duplicates, ascended/legendary gear being account bound rather than soulbound, etc.

Don’t get me wrong, I would like to see more stuff become account wide (I’m looking at you bag slots), but there’s just so much ANet can cut into their profit. And $ rules, so I doubt it’ll happen until the amount of unsatisfied customers starts to threaten sales too much, or the change is projected to increase profits.

Zorby.8236:

It’s not really a secret that it’s set up like this because ANet wants you to buy more from the gemstore…That said they’ve been much cooler about this than they get credit for. What with all/most gemstore items being account wide (gathering tools used to be soulbound), the wallet (freeing up much space in bank and making karma/gold management way easier), wardrobe so you don’t have to hold on to excessive amounts of gemstore skins (again saving space), minis and dyes made account wide so you don’t have to buy duplicates, ascended/legendary gear being account bound rather than soulbound, etc.

Don’t get me wrong, I would like to see more stuff become account wide (I’m looking at you bag slots), but there’s just so much ANet can cut into their profit. And $ rules, so I doubt it’ll happen until the amount of unsatisfied customers starts to threaten sales too much, or the change is projected to increase profits.

In regards to gathering tools, I’d like to be able to equip them on more than one character at the same time. Since they’re account bound, I can go to a bank and move them from character to character so it’s not like I’m not going to buy multiples of each, especially not at 1000g a shot. I see no reason we should not be able to equip them on multiple characters since we cannot play multiple characters at any given time and it only takes a minute to run to the bank and switch them over. Buying more than one of each is a huge waste of gems.

Bags not so much. Bag expansions should be on a per character basis, IMO.

It would be nice, but the price would probably go up. I prefer to be able to give these item to a specific character in that case.

Yes If the price stay at the same level, I’m all for account wide. But this won’t happen so.

You can only play one character at a time. The pick is account bound. You have a bank. If some whales want to buy multiple picks to avoid the (imo) very minor inconvenience of having to take a minute to offload the pick to the bank and then load it on another character, then let them.

Thaddeus.4891:

It would be nice, but the price would probably go up. I prefer to be able to give these item to a specific character in that case.

Yes If the price stay at the same level, I’m all for account wide. But this won’t happen so.

They’re already account wide and should not increase in price…it’s just a manual step to move them from one character to another. It would not be a great deal of work to make them account usable without having to move them from character to character manually. With an account wide wallet, wardrobe, stat bonus’, etc., the framework is already there and could be added in a similar fashion to minis or outfits….which can be shared by multiple characters at once. I suppose what it comes down to is how many people are actually buying multiples for their alts.