Gemstore: Everything Available Always
It would be nice to see everything available more often, the problem is short sales encourage cash gem buys, while non-timed are far easier to just farm the gold and eventually buy the gems. I’m no economist, but I have a feeling A-net gets more cash transactions with the time limited sales… So I would expect to see more of them.
They didn’t design the gem store for longevity, someone forgot to do the research into e-commerce solutions before implementing the gem store as a side project. If they keep everything on the current version forever, you’ll simply scroll forever hoping to find the thing you’re looking for; yeah they have a search feature but good luck with that, they’re naming convention is weak: backpacks can be named backpack, back item, back piece, backpack set, back item skin, backpack skin, backpack skin set, backpack cover. Some items that are skins and are marked as skins, others are not marked as skins (ex. masks, hats).
At least they categorized things – some things. Future proofing needs work and all the interfaces need updating. But they wont get nearly the gems if they bring everything back at 2-3x the price, they’re already high enough. They’re doing an asian firesale type of thing with the gem store and most of the players aren’t so it doesn’t really work like they wanted it to. They need to bring everything back and have weekly sales instead.
I actually like that stuff isn’t always in the gem store. We tend to take stuff for granted if it’s always available. I look forward to seeing what changes they make to the offerings.
Consumer psychology says that would be a bad move. JC Penney tried the radical notion of offering low prices all the time that matched their previous sale prices and their sales went into the toilet because consumers are trained to only buy on sales or limited time offers. That’s why the Sunday paper is full of circulars. BUY NOW! SAVE! HOT DEAL!
So rotating out merch until demand is pent up is for the best. And they would never raise prices without some kind of added benefit besides always there. That’s just dumb.
RIP City of Heroes
Dunno when it comes down to it, i like my current stuff being rarer than having more non rare things.
I actually like that stuff isn’t always in the gem store. We tend to take stuff for granted if it’s always available. I look forward to seeing what changes they make to the offerings.
That’s all good and fine when new stuff is hitting the gemstore with frequency. We get an outfit every month or so at best.
As for sales, putting everything up at x3 makes everything up at x1 price “on sale”.
Try next month. That is the 3 year anniversary. They bring back old gem store skins for a limited time. I got Grenths hood, and Marjory’s dagger/axe.
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I actually like that stuff isn’t always in the gem store. We tend to take stuff for granted if it’s always available. I look forward to seeing what changes they make to the offerings.
That’s all good and fine when new stuff is hitting the gemstore with frequency. We get an outfit every month or so at best.
Some months, we get updates every week. Some weeks, we get something new (or for sale) daily. I don’t think the recent drought is enough to say that the overall practice of adding/removing items from the shop needs to change. (I don’t expect the OP to agree; I’m just stating my opinion that the status quo works fine for me.)
It simply makes more business sense to continue the way they have it right now. It increases rarity of items which causes people to want it more. Also, making it a limited time offer forces people to make a decision (whether or not to buy) faster rather than sitting on it forever because something is “always available”.