Guild Wars 2

I’ve seen a lot of flak going around about the new account item slots, but no suggestions or ideas for what to do with extra convenience items except to request refunds, which isn’t always a viable option.

I had an idea of a gifting system, which people could use to send already purchased gem store and trade-able convenience items to players who might not have them. You could either send them to friends or family who don’t have them, or donate them to a pool from which players could receive them.

I know there would be security questions with such a system. I would go on to suggest that there be a limit of only one item of a given type (such as one copper-fed salvage-o-matic) be allowed per account, and then only if one hadn’t already been purchased and account bound. This would work only for QoL/Convenience items only. Any item gifted or received from the pool would be immediately account bound, and could not be re-gifted or re-submitted to the pool. Also, free-to-play accounts would not be eligible to use this system.

Thoughts?

I think a simple refund would be easier because it wouldn’t need programming. It would be probably better (for anet too) if you just send some $$ to your friends and family so they can buy these items from the gemshop.

That way anet would earn some money and people that already paid a lot of money could get something back and use that for items that are still usefull.

Bomber, a refund isn’t always feasible, or even possible depending on how long players have had their items. Even if they did get a refund, it would be a gem refund, which means ANet isn’t getting any extra money that way. Also, most unfortunately, not everyone can afford to send their friends and families money for such things.