Guild Wars 2

With more and more items being added to the Gem Store, it’s starting to become a bit of a mess. The Trading Post and the Currency Exchange both got revamped, and I think now’s a good time for the Gem Store’s turn.

My suggestion is to simply add more grouping to some of the tabs with a short description for each group. For example:

• Style
  • Armor Skins — Sets of skins that can be applied to pieces of equipment of a specific armor weight class.
  • Headgear — Skins can that be applied to headgear of all weight classes.
  • Outfits — Toggle-able skins that replace the overall appearance of your character.
  • Weapon Skins — Skins that can be applied to weapons.
  • Lawless Skins — Skins of the Lawless armor set that can be applied to all weight classes.
  • Shadow of the Dragon skins — Skins of the Shadow of the Dragon armor set that can be applied to all weight classes.
  • Miscellaneous — Backpacks, scarves and other skins.
  • …

• Special
  • Black Lion — Packages, chest keys, salvage kits and more!
  • Gathering tools — Logging axes, mining picks and harvesting sickles of all kinds.
  • Dyes — Dye kits and swatches.
  • …

• Toys
  • Miniatures — Get a miniature version of your favorite NPCs to follow you around!
  • Musical instruments — Express your creativity with beautiful music.
  • Kites — Floating things on a string.
  • Mounts — Travel with style and no movement speed bonuses.
  • Costume Brawl — Toys to beat up your friends with.
  • …

• Upgrades
  • Account — Upgrade your account.
  • Node Packs — Upgrade your home instance with nodes replenished daily.
  • Finishers — Customize your finishing move in PvP and WvW.
  • Mail Carriers — Customize the way you send and receive game mail.
  • …

The idea is to display more relevant information at once, and to prevent players from making potential mistakes (like purchasing an outfit thinking it’s an armor set).

Oh, and making the grid cells a bit smaller wouldn’t hurt either.

What do you people think? Would this improve your experience when browsing the Gem Store, or do you think it’s good enough as it is?

It’s a good idea though I think they could easily go overboard and make it more confusing for new players. I do think they should add warning messages when buying certain items with gems though. For example:" This outfit will cost 800 gems, it is one piece that goes over your armor and cannot be mixed and matched. Are you sure you want to purchase?" Or at least something to that effect. I luckily know better but I know lots of players that only understood that when it was too late.

They did revamp the Gem Store some time back. It is more organized than it used to be. Perhaps, another reorganization is on the horizon.

Good luck.