[Suggestions] Gemstore Items
Dear A-net: Please nerf rock. Paper is fine
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~Sincerely, Scissors
Serious suggestions?
We want stuff to force ourselves playing the game because of our look – not because every-day content thats not really exists.Here is a “Serious” one:
Gem Purchase track: The more real money you spend, the more nice rewards you get. Example of total money spent rewards:
- $10 – 1BL Key
- $25 – 3Bl Key
- $50 – 5BL key + Mini pack of choice + “Black Lion Partner” title.
- $100 – Ascended weapon box OR a free weapon skin unlock of any BL kit.
- $150 – Ascended armor box OR a free armor skinpack. + “Black Lion Merchant” title.
- $200 – AN Supporter Superpack (lots of choseable goods)
- $350 – “Black Lion Trader” title.
- $500 – “Black Lion Broker” title
- $1000 – AN Supporter Gigapack (Also unlocks stuff you wouldn’t bother to get anyway, like Glorious armor skins) + “Black Lion Millionaire” title
Something like this. With these kind of heavy rewards, people will less likely to buy legendaries from third-party sites I guess.
Who is going to spend $1000 on a game, lol.
Don’t go there.
Serious suggestions?
We want stuff to force ourselves playing the game because of our look – not because every-day content thats not really exists.Here is a “Serious” one:
Gem Purchase track: The more real money you spend, the more nice rewards you get. Example of total money spent rewards:
- $10 – 1BL Key
- $25 – 3Bl Key
- $50 – 5BL key + Mini pack of choice + “Black Lion Partner” title.
- $100 – Ascended weapon box OR a free weapon skin unlock of any BL kit.
- $150 – Ascended armor box OR a free armor skinpack. + “Black Lion Merchant” title.
- $200 – AN Supporter Superpack (lots of choseable goods)
- $350 – “Black Lion Trader” title.
- $500 – “Black Lion Broker” title
- $1000 – AN Supporter Gigapack (Also unlocks stuff you wouldn’t bother to get anyway, like Glorious armor skins) + “Black Lion Millionaire” title
Something like this. With these kind of heavy rewards, people will less likely to buy legendaries from third-party sites I guess.
Will never happen, but I like the idea, as long as it counts all the purchase made up until this point, not from this point on.
Dear A-net: Please nerf rock. Paper is fine
~Sincerely, Scissors
~Sincerely, Scissors
@ Windu The Forbidden One.6045:
Why do you think that it will never happen?
- AN wants income from GemStore – Check.
- Players/Costumers want good deals & “free” gifts – Check.
- Supporters has the opportunity to show-off – Check.
- It just happened – Awaiting…
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Do you think it would go over well now or better in the spring?
I’m happy to ask the team, but I imagine they’d want to schedule it properly.
I’d imagine that re-running it during the Easter season would go over just as well as any other time for those unconcerned with the holiday, but provide a bump of sales from those caught up in the iconography common to widespread advertising in the west.
That’s when I’d time its re-release for, anyway. I might even see about getting someone to come up with new colors of bunny ears between then and now. Pastel blue, fluffy pink and plain ol’ white would probably be fine.
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For starters, I would like to see Belinda’s Sword and Rox’s Quiver to be back in the store.
Next, what I’d like to see would be Elder Dragon themed armor skins.
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Where are my gem sales? I want gem sales! Nerf EVERYTHING!
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@ Windu The Forbidden One.6045:
Why do you think that it will never happen?
- AN wants income from GemStore – Check.
- Players/Costumers want good deals & “free” gifts – Check.
- Supporters has the opportunity to show-off – Check.
- It just happened – Awaiting…
Because when things sound too good to be true, they usually are
Dear A-net: Please nerf rock. Paper is fine
~Sincerely, Scissors
~Sincerely, Scissors
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I vote for putting all the items suggested here the bing put into the game itself to be obtained in fun ways. Rewards for ‘quest’, drops from mobs, drops from dungeon bosses and so on. You know, use it to make the game better in stead of added more junk to the cash0shop not having it in the game and making it yet another grind to get any of these things.
The cash-shop focus and so putting all that sort of items in the cash-shop in stead of in the game is the main problem of this game.
thing is… as good as that sounds the devs gotta get income to keep the content coming and since there isnt a monthly sub there needs to be something to loosen the money from wallets…aka the gem store exclusive items cause new copies of the game certainly dont cut it fully. With the price for the copy of the game you got more then you paid for…compared to other games with the same or similar price tag in terms of content, playtime and basically free content…so if you pretty much want to be a “freeloader” (whats totally not a wrong thing, i just lack any other word to describe it so dont take it the wrong way please ) on the gem store with converting your in game gold to gems then ya should need to grind atleast. Nothing on the gem store is P2W and you technically dont need any of the items to be equal to other people. Boosters you can get from banners, harvesting tools you can buy from every vendor, salvage kits you get from any vendor aswell. Skins, makeover kits and other stuff like this dont make your char stronger then others so you technically dont need em. Dont wanna fork over some bucks for a gem card? Totally alright.. but atleast grind a little
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thing is… as good as that sounds the devs gotta get income to keep the content coming and since there isnt a monthly sub there needs to be something to loosen the money from wallets…aka the gem store exclusive items cause new copies of the game certainly dont cut it fully. With the price for the copy of the game you got more then you paid for…compared to other games with the same or similar price tag in terms of content, playtime and basically free content…so if you pretty much want to be a “freeloader” (whats totally not a wrong thing, i just lack any other word to describe it so dont take it the wrong way please
Sure, they can and imho should use or turn to the model they did use for GW1. So in stead of releasing an expansion once every 3 years what now seems to be the case they push out an expansion every year and earn money that way. The numbers suggest they would have earned even more money.
(Every GW1 expansion generated about 100% of it’s original income, if GW2 would have managed to do the same and with a yearly expansion they would have earned more money then they did now. I most say that the game did suffer the last years so I do not think that they will now be able to reach that 100% with an expansion but the ratio compared to the cash-shop income probably stays the same as a less popular game does not only sell less expansions but also less cash-shop sales).
As you might remember this game was released as B2P game so then expansion sales are more in the line with that model Cash-shop focus is more in the line with a F2P game.
This way those items can increase the quality and game-play of GW2 while at this moment imho they do the opposite by having turned the game into a gold-grind (Like you say yourself , while the expansions do not only add new stuff but are generating the income for the game. Win, win.
Coming back on my statement of how the current approach makes it more of a gold-grind you say it yourself “so if you pretty much want to be a “freeloader” on the gem store with converting your in game gold to gems then ya should need to grind atleast.”. Well I do not want to be a ‘freeloader’, I am very willing to pay for the game (by buying an expansion every year) but I don’t want to buy cash-shop items, I want to play the game (you see that’s what a game is for.. playing) to earn those items. And grinding gold is in no sense a fun way of playing a game, that makes the game turn into a boring job.
But it is indeed what the game is now about. Buy your stuff (and so the stuff does not really add anything to the game-play / game) or grind gold to buy it. Both not really good for the game itself imho.
“Nothing on the gem store is P2W” It kinda depends on how you define pay to win. This game is mostly about cosmetics. Getting the coolest items seems to be the main goal in this game so getting those is ‘winning’ in this game and many of those items are on the cash-shop.
So from that perspective it very much is P2W. But in the end, that is not an important question, the question is if and how it effects the game itself and we already concluded (you basically saying it yourself) it turns this game into a gold-grind, at least if you are not willing to buy items from the cash-shop but would like to have them.
In addition they are not in the game itself and so effecting the game-play also in that way. Looking at a famous other mmo out there like WoW that game has a flying carpet just as GW2 does but there it’s a reward for a craft, it has a flying broom just as GW2 does but there it’s a reward from a dungeon, it has many mini’s but 99% of them are rewards from quests, mobs, dungeons and so on. All stuff that adds to the game-play. Giving you incentive or a reason to do specific content. Making it also more fun. All stuff that in GW2 is mainly cash-shop so gives incentive to grind gold or buy it but not adding to the game-play itself.
I do not buy a game to then being able to make it a job or to buy items to be able to customize things in the game, I buy a game to play it.
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can please bring back old items every week ? i miss the toxic parts
also you could add all the human gods mask or complete armor. they look great.
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Serious suggestions?
We want stuff to force ourselves playing the game because of our look – not because every-day content thats not really exists.Here is a “Serious” one:
Gem Purchase track: The more real money you spend, the more nice rewards you get. Example of total money spent rewards:
- $10 – 1BL Key
- $25 – 3Bl Key
- $50 – 5BL key + Mini pack of choice + “Black Lion Partner” title.
- $100 – Ascended weapon box OR a free weapon skin unlock of any BL kit.
- $150 – Ascended armor box OR a free armor skinpack. + “Black Lion Merchant” title.
- $200 – AN Supporter Superpack (lots of choseable goods)
- $350 – “Black Lion Trader” title.
- $500 – “Black Lion Broker” title
- $1000 – AN Supporter Gigapack (Also unlocks stuff you wouldn’t bother to get anyway, like Glorious armor skins) + “Black Lion Millionaire” title
Something like this. With these kind of heavy rewards, people will less likely to buy legendaries from third-party sites I guess.
Will never happen, but I like the idea, as long as it counts all the purchase made up until this point, not from this point on.
I’m way over $160 in gems already since I started GW 2 on day one with gem cards alone! That is real money even if its cards… I hope they take that into account too.
To be back on topic though: I want to see more sales on storage. Maybe you guys should do a spring cleaning sale or have Black Friday actually sell storage and stuff related to home instance at discounted price?
I got 4000 gems from Christmas ($50 in two $25 2000 gem cards) and I still haven’t spend a single gem because I am waiting for sales on bag slots, character slots, bank tabs, and material limit expansions.
Please make it happen!
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