Ingame I hear more and more people screaming for refunds on items they once bought but are now obsolete because of new ones. Many people bought these gem items for IRL money and feel a kitteneated, having their expensive gemstore items just sitting on their bank clogging bankspace.
Suggestion:
Wouldn’t it be great if we could exchange the old gemstore items for a reduced amount of gems? People would be able to get rid of their duplicate items without feeling ripped off or cheated and even get a small icentive to buy something new. You see this in real life grocery stores as well where they give you a coupon for your next visit.
That being said I thought of a system to return your items to a reduced amount of gems or gold through the BLTC. It can be made that you have to buy some sort of transformation item using a small dose of gems (for example 15 – 25 gems per transformation item) in order to be able to change the double item back in to gems (or gold).
As giving back the same amount of gems as the purchase might be a bit unfair as you have used it a long time I would think of something like about 50 – 65% of the origal gem cost as a return after using the item?Alternatively they could also make it an extra pane in the BLTC where you can easily turn in gem store items you have no use for any more. But that part I’d leave to the creative mind of the Arenanet developpers.
Awesome idea, maybe they can even hold promo’s for it like the -60% you now have on items in spotlight you could like get on certains days a month a slightly higher turnover gems you get back from given back a gemstore item. Why is this not here yet my body needs it!