Guild Wars 2

Now that the game has been out over a year, I figured I should speak up about some missed opportunities for ANet to get me to part with my precious $$$.

Town Clothes
There have been some good additions to shirts and hats/glasses/head pieces in the store, but the rest is a bit lacking. The cargo shorts are nice, but really, unless your default town clothes give you a normal pair of pants (like humans), there aren’t many options and there are even less for characters that want a dress. For shoes, the options are even worse. My sylvari has the option of leafy shoes, riding boots with spurs, or pirate boots and none of these match any of the hoodies or other shirts.

Tl;dr – The value of some of the shirts/hats is vastly reduced by a lack of pants/shoes to match

(Also, you should give cross-dressing options for characters. It may sound strange, but I can assure you, a lot of players will take advantage of this, whether it be out of a sincere desire to cross dress or simply for the lols)

Character Emotes
The closest we’ve gotten so far is the dance item. While I like this, there’s a lot of potential money to be made from roleplayers who just simply want to be more expressive. Hell, even non-roleplayers would probably like the option to /flex or /roar after killing a particularly tough foe.

Musical Instruments
The flute, bell, and horn are good starts, but let’s get a guitar, bass, and a drum set. Creating these items should b relatively simple since the mechanics are already created.

The most unused potential in the gem store is the town clothes.

Why can’t we use them for our normal gear?

I’d buy the silly shirts and shorts to not have to wear a trench coat or a mini skirt.
Plus, killing a dragon wearing a top hat simply shows that you have class.

I think the main issue with the untapped potential may have to do with sales figures, and I’m just guessing, so don’t quote me or ask for quotes … based off a lot of comments in various threads from folks who said they wouldn’t drop a dime on additional town clothes since you can’t wear them over your armor (ala GW1), I’m going to assume that many of the clothing options available go unsold. That, in turn, could demonstrate a lack of interest in them as a whole, hence a lack of further development of other clothing options. This would, obviously, be the wrong conclusion to draw from the lackluster sales, but I could see it being a contributing factor.

Personally, for myself, I’d buy multiple sets of different outfits if they weren’t restricted to town use only.

Yeah I’m still befuddled why they have yet to release armor sets on the BLTC other than the old 3 we have there.

Until I can combat in town clothes, ANet will never get my money for them.

I agree I recently made the suggestion that they add store weapon skins to match the armor sets they already have in the store. I thought it was odd I couldn’t buy or find weapons to match things like my magitech armor or the krytan armor set.

only things I wanna buy atm are new dance books and emotes

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

Plus, killing a dragon wearing a top hat simply shows that you have class.

Don’t forget the monocle. Nothing says high society like a top hat and monocle.

Mathias.9657:

Until I can combat in town clothes, ANet will never get my money for them.

Ding Ding Ding… We have a winner.

+1 to that buddy.

^^ And a cane …

mojowalker.3798:

I think the main issue with the untapped potential may have to do with sales figures, and I’m just guessing, so don’t quote me or ask for quotes … based off a lot of comments in various threads from folks who said they wouldn’t drop a dime on additional town clothes since you can’t wear them over your armor (ala GW1), I’m going to assume that many of the clothing options available go unsold. That, in turn, could demonstrate a lack of interest in them as a whole, hence a lack of further development of other clothing options. This would, obviously, be the wrong conclusion to draw from the lackluster sales, but I could see it being a contributing factor.

Personally, for myself, I’d buy multiple sets of different outfits if they weren’t restricted to town use only.

I think part of the reason for low sales on a lot of town clothes is also that most of the stuff simply doesn’t match anything.

To ANet, it may look like people aren’t interested in the items, but it’s not necessarily a problem with the item if there’s just nothing that goes with it.

True … but in in a good number of the threads I’ve seen concerning town clothes, and the armor sets available on the TP, the issues are are that you can’t wear the town clothes as armor and they don’t appear in a wardrobe once bought so they can be applied to multiple chars multiple times.

While cargo shorts may be one of the few legging options available and don’t coordinate with much, I think even these would sell more frequently if once they were purchased they appeared in an account-wide wardrobe and you could add them over your armor.

But to your point about additional town clothing, I’m all for it … I like most of the costumes from GW1 and owned almost all of ’em.

mojowalker.3798:

^^ And a cane …

diamond tipped no less

mojowalker.3798:

True … but in in a good number of the threads I’ve seen concerning town clothes, and the armor sets available on the TP, the issues are are that you can’t wear the town clothes as armor and they don’t appear in a wardrobe once bought so they can be applied to multiple chars multiple times.

While cargo shorts may be one of the few legging options available and don’t coordinate with much, I think even these would sell more frequently if once they were purchased they appeared in an account-wide wardrobe and you could add them over your armor.

But to your point about additional town clothing, I’m all for it … I like most of the costumes from GW1 and owned almost all of ’em.

Well, the problem of that is that you run into the issue of armor types. Do Guardians get to charge into battle wearing cargo shorts and hoodies? If so, why not allow heavy armor classes to just transmog light armor?

I just don’t see it working, personally. .

and a waxed moustache

Guild Wars 1 armor sets. I’ve said it a million times – I’ll keep saying it till we get it.
There’s no reason not to have them. Me and others would pay for it. Why isn’t it in yet?

Please give me a drumset o.o
If they make it so that there’s no cooldown on notes, AND you can play notes simultaneously, I will pay any amount of money. ANY.

Dahkeus.8243:

mojowalker.3798:

True … but in in a good number of the threads I’ve seen concerning town clothes, and the armor sets available on the TP, the issues are are that you can’t wear the town clothes as armor and they don’t appear in a wardrobe once bought so they can be applied to multiple chars multiple times.

While cargo shorts may be one of the few legging options available and don’t coordinate with much, I think even these would sell more frequently if once they were purchased they appeared in an account-wide wardrobe and you could add them over your armor.

But to your point about additional town clothing, I’m all for it … I like most of the costumes from GW1 and owned almost all of ’em.

Well, the problem of that is that you run into the issue of armor types. Do Guardians get to charge into battle wearing cargo shorts and hoodies? If so, why not allow heavy armor classes to just transmog light armor?

I just don’t see it working, personally. .

Actually, I’m a proponent of all armors being available to every class. The examples I’ve given of this before are what if I play a war who thinks he’s such a bad kitten that he doesn’t NEED armor and his big wonkin’ sword is enough? Or maybe I’m an ele that’s TERRIFIED of the idea of venturing into the great outdoors and want to hide inside a steel shell? Benefits/drawbacks could be worked into the mechanics of each. Obviously for a war to wear light-armor, he/she would lose a fair degree of toughness, but they’d also pick up faster endurance recharge. And vice-versa for the ele — more tougness in the steel shell, but maybe a detriment to precision because of the weight of the armor.

Anyway, back to point, I think there’s a TON of cash that could be made by gem store sales if there was a greater degree of flexibility for the items we can purchase.

Coltz.5617:

and a waxed moustache

And a diabolical laugh emote.

Vol.5241:

Yeah I’m still befuddled why they have yet to release armor sets on the BLTC other than the old 3 we have there.

There are more than 3 armor sets on the TP. I think there are 9 right now.

I would really like to see those skins be added to the achievement bank, so they are reusable on the account, though.

mojowalker.3798:

I think the main issue with the untapped potential may have to do with sales figures, and I’m just guessing, so don’t quote me or ask for quotes … based off a lot of comments in various threads from folks who said they wouldn’t drop a dime on additional town clothes since you can’t wear them over your armor (ala GW1), I’m going to assume that many of the clothing options available go unsold. That, in turn, could demonstrate a lack of interest in them as a whole, hence a lack of further development of other clothing options. This would, obviously, be the wrong conclusion to draw from the lackluster sales, but I could see it being a contributing factor.

Personally, for myself, I’d buy multiple sets of different outfits if they weren’t restricted to town use only.

Its because all Anet cares for is metrics. They, as is obviously apparent, never ask the “why”.

Guhracie.3419:

Vol.5241:

Yeah I’m still befuddled why they have yet to release armor sets on the BLTC other than the old 3 we have there.

There are more than 3 armor sets on the TP. I think there are 9 right now.

I would really like to see those skins be added to the achievement bank, so they are reusable on the account, though.

I agree, but have to add that it would be even more awesome if they would give us a ward drove for our characters. There, all the skins (including actual weapon and armor models which aren’t classified as skins) we have ever owned would be stored there ready to be used as a skin. Too bad it will never happen as it will cut into their gem sales.

I’d just like to see some new items in general. The only things coming out lately have been stale re-skins of items that are already available or just more minis.

I still have yet to meet anyone that actually collects those. .

I think they need more collectable book.

If the skins and town cloth become a collection, people’ll be more interest in them and some will try to collect everything and boost sells.

They could take some notes from Rifts Cash shop tbh..

Draknar.5748:

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

Plus, killing a dragon wearing a top hat simply shows that you have class.

Don’t forget the monocle. Nothing says high society like a top hat and monocle.

You also need Chauncey von Snuffles III to tag along. Anet, make costumes wearable in battle, like in Guild Wars 1, please.

More town clother would be nice. Especially ‘regular’ clothes. We still don’t have access to the NPC clothing.

Town clothes in fight, however, give me the shivers. I really don’t want to fight alongside with an army of people in pink quaggan hats and boxing gloves.

Dahkeus.8243:

Musical Instruments
The flute, bell, and horn are good starts, but let’s get a guitar, bass, and a drum set. Creating these items should b relatively simple since the mechanics are already created.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Unbreakable_Drum
Soon…

Dear Anet,

I will pay 1,000,000 gems for a medium chest piece that is not a freaking trenchcoat…

Sincerely,

Butt cape wearer.