Guild Wars 2

So there has been a GW2 t-shirt I have been in search for a while now but can’t seem to find it. It is simply a white t-shirt with the normal GW2 logo on it but very big like it spreads onto your arm a bit but is mainly the centre of shirt. I think I have seen people that work at A-net wearing it so I don’t know if it’s exclusive or anything but yeah. Oh I found an image. But yeah I would do anything to get hold of this t-shirt so if someone could link a store or something that would be great ty

I think that is a special t-shirt meant for the employees only, unless a third party manufacturer (or yourself) put one together.

Why not a series of shirts with the Order/race logos on the backs and “Guild Wars 2” symbol on the front breast side? Easy 9 shirt designs

For a few more, you could fake up symbols for Mordremoth, Zhaitan, Jormag, the Flame Legion . . .

Of course, if they only put out a shirt with the Shiro Tagachi guild symbol on the back.

Hi Gaile,

I’m curious about something. We’ve seen a fair amount of posts recently about players wanting to do stuff with Anet’s IP; how does Anet handle licensing things like that?

For example, if I wanted to make a GW2 shirt and sell it through Cafe Press or something, how would I go about licensing for that? Do you charge a per item tax? Flat annual fee? In general terms is it something a fan could reasonably afford or is it something that only someone/company with deeper pockets could do?

I don’t have any plans to do this. Just curious.

Torsailr.8456:

Hi Gaile,

I’m curious about something. We’ve seen a fair amount of posts recently about players wanting to do stuff with Anet’s IP; how does Anet handle licensing things like that?

For example, if I wanted to make a GW2 shirt and sell it through Cafe Press or something, how would I go about licensing for that? Do you charge a per item tax? Flat annual fee? In general terms is it something a fan could reasonably afford or is it something that only someone/company with deeper pockets could do?

I don’t have any plans to do this. Just curious.

I don’t think Gaile is the right person to answer that. That’s a legal and/or marketing department question

Torsailr.8456:

Hi Gaile,

I’m curious about something. We’ve seen a fair amount of posts recently about players wanting to do stuff with Anet’s IP; how does Anet handle licensing things like that?

For example, if I wanted to make a GW2 shirt and sell it through Cafe Press or something, how would I go about licensing for that? Do you charge a per item tax? Flat annual fee? In general terms is it something a fan could reasonably afford or is it something that only someone/company with deeper pockets could do?

I don’t have any plans to do this. Just curious.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-content-terms-of-use/

Or email community@arena.net

Depending on the content of your questions, Gaile will in fact be the one to reply, just as she was for my questions regarding asset use in a not-for-cost android app.

Gaile Gray.6029:

The pictured shirt looks as if it’s our staff member shirt. But I do think we’re looking into making shirts in the future! I’ll let folks know on the forums when they’re available.

Thanks for asking.

(You could make one for yourself because it would be for private, non-profit use. The same would not be true of a third-party manufacturer doing the same or of a site using a template that a player made up for him- or herself and the company then used to sell additional shirts. Those companies would be a breach of copyright law and we do pursue such matters to protect our copyrights and trademarks.)

Gaile, do you not recall the game’s Beta and up to launch? During such time there was even a Poll on the official Facebook page about selecting the best design to purchase. It went ….nowhere. Why? It was very popular and I know I’d have ordered 3 myself.

Here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150977371249209.432299.114036714208&type=3

See, you guys already have them designed!

I’d have -and still want to- purchase the Zojja one, the Eir+Zojja one, and the Lifestyle Logo one. Seems your art department still should have the mockups for it, right? Just get together with Jinx and pump them out for a %; there’s no lose at all!

I know Gaile isn’t on the legal team but I figured she would either be able to relay the question/answer or tell me where to find it if I missed it elsewhere.

Torsailr.8456:

I know Gaile isn’t on the legal team but I figured she would either be able to relay the question/answer or tell me where to find it if I missed it elsewhere.

Correct~ The quote below is the relevant (for this discussion) part of the email discussion I had with Gaile;

Gaile’s reply to ‘asset uses in a freely distributed product’”

Hi me,

Free distribution is permitted as per the documents you reviewed. We’re delighted when players and fans build fun and useful products in relation to our game when it has been designed and will be distributed on a non-profit basis.

A for-profit project is not something we can allow at this time. I have asked our brand director for more information, but at the present time, we do not have a means to grant permission or issue a license in relation to a for-profit app. This is something we will be discussing internally to determine how we can best respond to such requests.

The documents in question are the Assets Terms of Use I linked earlier.

Sorry, I was rushed and skimmed your response earlier. I haven’t had a chance to read the link yet.

Thats interesting. I’m kinda surprised Anet doesn’t have some sort of licensing structure in place given that they’ve allowed books to be written. I wonder if the books are all in house, and thus, no need for licensing.

Torsailr.8456:

Sorry, I was rushed and skimmed your response earlier. I haven’t had a chance to read the link yet.

Thats interesting. I’m kinda surprised Anet doesn’t have some sort of licensing structure in place given that they’ve allowed books to be written. I wonder if the books are all in house, and thus, no need for licensing.

Well, for all intents and purposes, I took gaile’s reply exactly as it’s written, that they had nothing in place for apps, whether android or ios or whatever (potentially because no one’s bothered to simply ask until I did), and have basically set the ball rolling on Anet making a determination one way or another. The books, however, at a guess, could very well have been licensed, even if they had been done inhouse, though such a license would most likely be far different than a “digital asset use” license. Even moreso when you add in the concerns about the royalties involved, whether Anet (or ncsoft if they get their sticky fingers on it) would require royalties too large to realistically be paid for out of the net income from each sale (basically the app creator makes nothing or even has to pay out of pocket) or not.