Guild Wars 2

To the OP: I agree with you. The time and effort that went into the costumes must have been quite a bit. It’s a shame that we can’t either buy these as armor skins for a bit more, or have option of using an ‘appearance set’ to just cover our general combat armor if we wish. I would love to have the Mad King set, sans the helmet on my necromancer.
Alas it isn’t to be, as of yet, but one can always hold out hope that in the future Anet will do something where we can. I would be throwing money at my screen if they did!

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Anet just simply needs to stop thinking about their own self interests, Self motivating, over propitiating corrupt Cash Shop agenda’s. The cash shop has become such a money sink it almost makes players not even want to play anymore.

Yes, Anet sure is the epitome of evil and corruption for their needing to do diabolical things such as paying their employees, the power bills, server upkeep, etc… Oh the horror!!!

This game has no sub fee, if it did I would be against the cash shop, but in this reality that is not the case, and posts like these are downright silly.
They give us new content every 2 weeks for free, and what is in the Cash Shop has absolutely nothing to do with playing the game to the fullest. It’s cosmetic or fluff. That being said, if it becomes such a problem of a ‘money sink’ be it real world currency or gold, then that’s an issue you have with self control.

I’m on Henge of Denravi and am having this issue too.

Plague.5329:

Using the cash shop only encourages them to implement it even more. This behavior needs to be punished, not rewarded.

If this game was sub based I would be inclined to agree with you. But as it isn’t, a gem store is pretty much mandatory to keep things going. That being said, you do realize that the people that work at Anet don’t work for free don’t you?
In the end if the items in the store bother you, ignore it and move on.

Frankly I wish they would add more cosmetic items to the gem store. My biggest complaint with the new armor sets is the designs are different for each sex (except for Asura and Charr) and there is no choice between them. I would have gotten the heavy armor set used for the males on my female Norn warrior (I love the gauntlet/chest/leg designs, but the female version is not my cup of tea)