So, dunno about you but I personally keep most of my gem store consumables from login rewards or BLCs in my bank. On the rare occasion I actually need one and want to use it, I don’t simply because it’s not in my inventory – I can’t even be tempted to spend one if I wanted in that moment, if I needed them in a fractal gone awry. This is bad both for the player and for ANet since these items are used more rarely and just collect dust in our storage.
I have a suggestion that would improve this game both for the players and improve ANet’s profit margins – an account-wide gem store consumable item mini-wallet, located here (click for image), next to the current wallet icon.
It’s not intrusive yet it’s easy to access. You’d click on this small icon in your inventory to open an interface similar to the currency wallet’s, with one change – next to the gem store item consumable and the number you own, you’d have a button that says “activate”. Click it, confirm in a confirmation dialog and there you go, it’s done!
At any time during your gameplay, you can open this wallet and use your revive orbs, instant trading post summons and merchants, repair kits, fun boxes, maybe even boosters, with only a few clicks of your mouse and without worrying on which character you left them yesterday.
The player advantage is obvious – you get a huge QoL improvement and actually get to use these items on all your characters, whenever you need them, without spending inventory space on them.
The ANet advantage, which I think is also important because this convenience could cut into their bank slot / inventory slot sales? Dramatically increases the demand and value of these items by making them more convenient to use. Players are surely going to spend more of these items on a whim if they are able to than if they have to go to their bank and pick them up every single time in preparation.
Most think these items are already too expensive to be part of regular gameplay and rarely buy them in the gemstore. I think this is partly because they already get many of them in BLCs and daily login rewards as unwanted loot and never actually use them. I know I’d personally use many more of them, rather than keeping them on my storage alt, if it were more convenient for me. What do you think?
edit: This kind of interface improvement could also be used for various tonics or toys but I didn’t want to get into it since it’s debatable if it would be worth for ANet to make these items so easily accessible to any character throughout the account. So I’d ask you to refrain from demanding even more because it will make this idea even less likely to be implemented
(edited by Kaldo.4170)