All items ever sold on the Gemstore should be available for purchase at all times, the only thing that should change is the price with sales.
My problem with the current system is I’ll discover an outfit or an item I would purchase, then find that it’s not available for purchase. Years pass and by the time it comes back, I’m over it and don’t want it anymore.
Let people have rare item skins for achieving something extremely difficult or spending a lot of time accomplishing something in-game. But letting people who just happened to be online at the right time to buy something lord an exclusive item over everyone else just seems bizarre (and slightly unethical) to me.
Reading through this thread there are loads of people asking for things that are ‘already’ in the game that have been outright denied for years. What is Arenanet possibly gaining from denying sale of virtual items?
I wanted a Mini Snow Owl once… never seen it come back to the Gemstore, completely over it now. I’m not even keen on mini pets anymore. Arenanet missed out on that impulse buy. Why?
Anyway…
Gemstore suggestion: old style deep sea diving helmets as a skin for aqua breathers. But also aqua-breathers should be transmutable with any head gear, due to the minimal choices of aqua-breathers. Some of them aren’t even aqua-breathers, two of them are existing skins of head items.
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