Guild Wars 2

While I understand you guys need to make money I’m concerned about the direction the game has taken in releasing new item skins through the gem store. Especially when those items are exclusive event themed items.

I know that you can trade gold for gems and ‘earn’ enough currency to purchase all of the content on the store without spending real world currency, doing so is rather difficult and tedious given the exchange rates.

Furthermore, the current price for some of the skins on the BLT are almost as much as buying real clothing in RL. Accompany that with the fact that you can only use the skins once, on one character, on one item, and if you want to recover that, you have to pay MORE money (if you want to keep the item), or transmute it (which also costs money).

My feelings are this. Skins made for themed living story events should be achievable through the living story, not the marketplace.

HOWEVER, I would be happy to compromise, if said skins that have to be purchased are added to the skin locker in the achievement window and unlocked for all my characters. In fact, I’d be willing to buy more of them if such were the case.

Sondergaard.8469:

HOWEVER, I would be happy to compromise, if said skins that have to be purchased are added to the skin locker in the achievement window and unlocked for all my characters. In fact, I’d be willing to buy more of them if such were the case.

This. That is exactly what keeps me from purchasing skins in the gem store. Please make the skins reusable.

To be honest, if they were reusable I would pay a little extra for the skins. Not much more, mind you, but it would be worth it to say that I can use this one skin on eight characters if I pay somewhere in the ballpark of 400 extra gems? I think this is a valid, if not overly spoken, concern that is shared by many. Something I put in a thread I have going is that, on top of having this, another compromise would be that I have to use a transmute token each time I use the skin. This removes the need for the splitters while keeping the need for the transmute stones.

Win/win as far as compromises go; no more splitters for skins in the locker, all purchased skins go in the locker, we need a transmute token to apply any of the skins from the locker each time, the skins cost a little extra for across the board use. Two wins for us and two for AreaNet, and it wouldn’t completely eliminate the need for splitters since there are people that would still want to make their armor look like something from the in-game content.

heh, if all the skins i already purchased are retrievable account wide then i can finally have it on more then one character without paying yet another €10,-

sorudo.9054:

heh, if all the skins i already purchased are retrievable account wide then i can finally have it on more then one character without paying yet another €10,-

This is true, but they are constantly releasing NEW skins that you won’t have until you pay another $10, and this is where they will continue to make their money. Sure you might have all the old ones, but that fancy shiny new one will be taunting you from just out of reach.

Another option could be to have the skins available in 2 varieties.

1) single use
2) unlimited use (account bound, not soul bound)

The unlimited use could cost a little more.

Mel.8769:

Another option could be to have the skins available in 2 varieties.

1) single use
2) unlimited use (account bound, not soul bound)

The unlimited use could cost a little more.

I feel like that would just clutter the gem store and cause confusion for people that don’t – or seemingly can’t – read the tooltips and descriptions. A unified upgrade would make more sense. Even if they made it so any already purchased don’t become usable across the board I think I’d be fine with it.

They could make the account bound locker stuff a whole new item that costs more gems. Meaning if you have the Krytan armor already, you would have to repurchase it for the rest of your toons. However, you’d be buying it at a slightly higher price for a one-time fee. This would be fair, I think, and still make them a fair bit of money.

This would be a great quality of life update for players who purchase from the gem store.

Sondergaard.8469:

sorudo.9054:

heh, if all the skins i already purchased are retrievable account wide then i can finally have it on more then one character without paying yet another €10,-

This is true, but they are constantly releasing NEW skins that you won’t have until you pay another $10, and this is where they will continue to make their money. Sure you might have all the old ones, but that fancy shiny new one will be taunting you from just out of reach.

true, but for now i just want a solution for the current ones.