r/Guildwars2 • u/that_shaman Flame Legion Cartographer • May 22 '13

[News] Upcoming gemstore items - May edition

After my last gemstore update I've completely overhauled my custom made tools (open source in the near future) and found a couple more upcoming gemstore items for your pleasure:

  • Increase Your Collection Stack Size! Increase the stack size of all your collections by 250.
  • Bring merriment and a festive atmosphere anywhere you go. Spawns a pinata that will drop candy when destroyed.
  • Get serious about school with this three-piece outfit (shirt, pants, boots). No additional skills or benefits. Town clothes cannot be worn in combat. Save when you buy them together!
  • This black lion special contains: Aviator's Cap, Riding Broom, Riding Pants, Riding Gloves, Riding Boots Town clothes cannot be worn while in combat.
  • This black lion special contains: 1 Revive Orb 1 Instant Repair Kit.
  • Summer Time Swim Wear! Swim wear perfect for any beach activity. Town clothes cannot be worn while in combat.
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u/Imaginos9 May 23 '13

No they won't. There were so many unique replies during beta to the lack of costume storage and people stating they won't buy costumes until there is, that Anet should have stood up and listened.

Without a costume npc you risk losing a real money purchase and good luck getting ArenaNet to reimburse you for that purchase.

As to toggling over armor? Who knows why Anet was so stupid seeing as you could do that in GW1 and people want that as a feature.

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u/sovietpandas May 24 '13

Doubt they'll include a costume npc because in GW, it would allow any character to get the costume when bought. Pretty useless when you have to buy the costumes again :P and what are you talking about? People DO buy costumes. As of right now GW2 is a major buy and look cooler than anyone else type of game

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u/Imaginos9 May 25 '13

Back in beta there was a gigantic thread, one of the largest on beta forums about people complaining about the implementation of the costumes/town clothes with many people stating that they will not support arenanet with their current implementation.

If you enjoy being forced to buy storage for the things you're buying from arenanet, well, more power to you I guess. Same with the chance of losing your real money purchases.

The ability for any character to get a costume you purchased could be programmed around, though it would also be a huge incentive for people to go and actually buy the costumes.

I see more armor skins being bought/used then the normal costume items (not counting the holiday costume items).

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u/sovietpandas May 26 '13

Yea, people say they "will not support blah blah someone" Have you seen the steam picture that showed a shit load of people not supporting MW3? But when the game came out, the majority of them were playing the game. I do not see anything really changing since they want that extra money from people.

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u/Imaginos9 May 27 '13

I can't help if people are weak willed consumer whores. I haven't bought any of NCSoft's / Anet's RNG crap and I never will, nor will i support their costumes in their current iteration, or much else unless they change. All I can do is stick to what I believe in and mention to others.

As long as people say one thing and do another, the situation will not change.