Guild Wars 2

Anet’s primary income in the gemstore (and expansions but that would digress the topic), their primary weekly sales are gliders and outfits and sometimes minis (bi-weekly is same thing plus BL weapon set).

However, back in the early days GW2 also sold either toys on their own or with outfit and has released 3 travel items (and for those who are gonna say “deeerr you want mounts” joke’s on you then, we have these travel items for the past 3 years), it would it be nice if in the future Evon says “I got inspired seeing a bunch of my costumers…and some of my staff wearing the popular bunny ears! So inspired I made a whole weapon set, and if cute is not your style don’t worry, I paid a good shiny to a bunch of Skritt to carry your weight (literally!) around Tyria!”

Would you all buy more travel items/toys if they were in the gemstore? I’ll admit that toys are in a bit of difficult position. Aesthetically they are cool, but in terms of actual gameplay Anet killed the costume brawl (heck how many ppl know that was a thing).

Would you all buy more toys and travel items if we had the chance? I have no problem the way Anet handles the gemstore, but I want to see something new other than glider, outfits, and weapon sets. Something that Anet has proven they can do, not something new that would be time consuming

I dont think so.
Why waste dev time on something like that, havent seen anyone in game use the 3 we got now

what are “more travel items”?

the broom? the teleport to friend?

Travel items? do you mean the the fake mounts like the broom?

As for toys, I don’t want them. they aren’t worth an inventory slot of the occasional time I might want to run around as a quaggan with a kite or somthing.

I doubt I’d spend on it. I mean, why? We have waypoint-teleports. This is superior to traveling solutions in older MMOs like mounts or horseroutes or class-based portal spells.

Could I still show something off? Sure. But why would I, if there’s no reason to ever use it?

Travel items:
The magic carpet
The riding broom
The Sonic tunneling tool

I would want more buuuuut yeah no one really uses these……..or am I wrong?

What IF Anet releases a new one just as an experiment to see how much it sells?

eduardo.1436:

Travel items:
The magic carpet
The riding broom
The Sonic tunneling tool

I would want more buuuuut yeah no one really uses these……..or am I wrong?

What IF Anet releases a new one just as an experiment to see how much it sells?

but the real travel toy is Executioner’s Axe! , it used to turn my 20 min keyruns into little over 10 min keyruns :P

eduardo.1436:

I’ll admit that toys are in a bit of difficult position. Aesthetically they are cool, but in terms of actual gameplay Anet killed the costume brawl (heck how many ppl know that was a thing).

How so? They’ve been consistently releasing new Tonics.

I’m still a bit bummed that new outfits don’t come with toys. I have the Mad King, Witch, and Pirate outfits, and I can’t help but look at toy-less outfits like I’m getting less bang for my buck. (Even if I can use the non-toy components of outfits themselves on multiple characters, which wasn’t the case back in the day.)

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen someone use the Sonic Tunneling Tool, and the Magic Carpet is uncommon, if not unheard of. I never really got the Riding Broom, which is just a worse version of the Witch’s Broom.

I still see people doing costume brawl. It’s never been something people went out of their way to set up or participate in, but it’s not uncommon to see people playing it whenever you’ve got a group hanging around, like right now outside the Super Adventure Box, or when people are waiting for a meta-event.

I don’t know that there would be much demand for new toys though and I don’t know if it’s just me being unobservant but I hardly ever see anyone using those movement items.

I like the toy sword that came with the pirate outfit, especially because the cannon it creates can be used by anyone, it’s fun sometimes to set it up and watch what people do with it.

But I don’t know that I’d buy any others. I only got this one because it came with the pirate outfit (which ironically is now the part I almost never use, since I can’t mix and match it).

Maybe if they kept up with the idea of bundling toys with outfits.

Yes. I prefer these toys to any outfit.

If by “Travel Items” you mean mounts, then yes we need them. Here’s how it could work:

Dolyak mount – slower speed, but high attack power
Moa mount – fast travel speed, lower attack power
Charr mount – most balanced option with mid level speed and power

And as in real life, you need to feed your mounts, so that could allow Anet to introduce a new craft profession – The Farmer. The Gem Store can sell feed that you can plant in your home instance, and tend like Farmville. You need to water crops and harvest items, and then use your Cooking profession to create Mount Food. Don’t forget to purchase your Mount Stable for 1,000 Gems!

Smooth Penguin.5294:

If by “Travel Items” you mean mounts, then yes we need them. Here’s how it could work:

Dolyak mount – slower speed, but high attack power
Moa mount – fast travel speed, lower attack power
Charr mount – most balanced option with mid level speed and power

And as in real life, you need to feed your mounts, so that could allow Anet to introduce a new craft profession – The Farmer. The Gem Store can sell feed that you can plant in your home instance, and tend like Farmville. You need to water crops and harvest items, and then use your Cooking profession to create Mount Food. Don’t forget to purchase your Mount Stable for 1,000 Gems!

Smooth Penguin, buddy. We both know Evon is the best altruistic entrepreneur of Tyria! “We don’t need mounts. We gonna give you travel items!” he says. So ket’s stick with Evon’s ideal.

On a serious note Travel items=Mounts (at least imo anyway), do you think Anet should invest time on them? as in some sale weeks we get new travel and new weapon set? What about toys?

Personally as far as I can tell, people don’t think/want more travel items because few people use them so it woyuld be a waste of resources (I wish I could disagree but that’s a fair point), and people would want more toys bundled with new outfit which I totally agree and hope Anet is reading this XD

Id buy more gimmicky gadgets if they sold them.
Already thought of a few.
1/ Portable Waypoint, consumable, allows you to place a portable waypoint on the map which lasts for a hour.
2 types Personal , only works for you or chars on your acct, or open, works for anyone.
Chance of the waypoint failing when used and it kills the user and explodes.

2/ Waypoint Uncontester, Consumable which allows you to turn an contested waypoint into an uncontested one.
You have to be physically located at the contested waypoint to use the device.

3/ GPS receiver. Displays your location in X,Y and Z coords.
Coords can be linked into chat and other players who also have one will then be able to see your location on the map, and will also see your distance and direction.

4/ Telescope. (this depends a bit on whether the graphic engine can handle it).
Allows you to see things far away, beyond max LOS.
Cool if you are standing on a high vista or hi mountain and want to watch things you cant normally see.

5/ Alert Golem, 10 uses then it explodes and you need a new one.
Provides an alert by way of playing a wav file on your computer when a defined event happens.
eg Someone tries to chat to you, tries to rez you , invites you to a group, or somehow tries to atrract your attention .
This is for players like me who leave the game running all the time , but arnt actually always in front of the computer.

There are heaps of gadgets that could be sold in the store that dont actually affect the game play, but which would be cool to have.

mauried.5608:

Id buy more gimmicky gadgets if they sold them.
Already thought of a few.
1/ Portable Waypoint, consumable, allows you to place a portable waypoint on the map which lasts for a hour.
2 types Personal , only works for you or chars on your acct, or open, works for anyone.
Chance of the waypoint failing when used and it kills the user and explodes.

2/ Waypoint Uncontester, Consumable which allows you to turn an contested waypoint into an uncontested one.
You have to be physically located at the contested waypoint to use the device.

3/ GPS receiver. Displays your location in X,Y and Z coords.
Coords can be linked into chat and other players who also have one will then be able to see your location on the map, and will also see your distance and direction.

4/ Telescope. (this depends a bit on whether the graphic engine can handle it).
Allows you to see things far away, beyond max LOS.
Cool if you are standing on a high vista or hi mountain and want to watch things you cant normally see.

5/ Alert Golem, 10 uses then it explodes and you need a new one.
Provides an alert by way of playing a wav file on your computer when a defined event happens.
eg Someone tries to chat to you, tries to rez you , invites you to a group, or somehow tries to atrract your attention .
This is for players like me who leave the game running all the time , but arnt actually always in front of the computer.

There are heaps of gadgets that could be sold in the store that dont actually affect the game play, but which would be cool to have.

I want toys, not gadgets :P

I’d probably buy more of that stuff if they’d introduce some sort of wardrobe functionality for it. Also would like a quick access hotkey to toggle active item. Tonics(endless and limited quantity) and Toys need to end up in there. Biggest thing keeping me from purchasing these types of things is the fact they eat up my inventory space. There is so much stuff being introduced in this game that is taking up precious space. Last thing I want to do is spend gems on more.