Guild Wars 2

i wanted to buy the zodiac armor but it’s gone, why would they remove it..

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/daydreamers-wings-honor-guard-finisher-and-mini-beetle-in-the-gemstore/

The zodiac set, along with other items, was temporarily removed. They’ll be back “next Fall”.

I assume they weren’t selling and they made that tab annoying long to scroll through. They really need to add a filter for outfits/full armor skins/piecemeal armor skins/weapon skins.

Or they’re being removed to make room for new things to lurk in the gem store.

lighter.2708:

i wanted to buy the zodiac armor but it’s gone, why would they remove it..

It’s typical of any cash shop: if stuff is in there all the time, it starts to get ignored and clutters up new offerings. Some people also think that it’s done to create “artificial scarcity” which would also drive up demand.

In any case, I’m happy to see old stuff removed if it means we’ll see a lot more new stuff over the next weeks or months.

Because unlike a true digital storefront, this one is completely unscalable in its current design. Imagine if they left everything in there from the beginning and continued to add to it for the next 8 years, now can you imagine how long you’d have to scroll just to see everything? That is an instant FAIL design in e-commerce.

Also, there is an innate pressure due to our commercialized civilization to buy things that were once available and taken away, marketing loves this one “limited time sale” or “Spring/summer/fall/winter sales” or STEAM SALE!!!! (btw it’s on right now ). Anet also does the flash sale where its just here for a couple days and gone again.

For some reason they think it actually increases sales when they actually have no baseline data to pull from because they’ve never actually tried leaving ALL of the items on the gemstore for an extended period of time. All it actually does is drive the price of gold→gem conversion up.

Digital items have an infinite supply but a finite demand, Anet attempts to balance the supply to the demand which screws over people who take too long to acquire the currency to get the items because currency is an infinite supply but game-time is finite and this is never balanced.

Anyway, the e-commerce team and web team and gem store team need to work together because in 8 years we’ll need Amazon to handle all the digital items we’ll have by then or we’ll never be able to have all the items. Anet did not design this game to accommodate the future and I’m hoping that one day all the interfaces in the game will get a feature pack of their own to upgrade the system so we don’t have to deal with this limited time kittylitter and taking digital items away.