What would you like to see in the Ingame Store?

TheMosesPHD

TheMosesPHD

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2006

Oregon

Mo Mo Patty Blinks [MoMo]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by TalonTheCat
Nothing in-game, I'D LIke to see tangibile:

T-Shirts
Mouse Pad
Coffee Cup

Great "classic" GW photos - and maybe customized with your characters "mugshot" and/or name
Indeed. Infuse Health T-Shirt plz. muchthx.

Yunas Ele

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2006

E/

Character slots, bigger storage and those directsound things and possibly "real life merchandise" (if its intended to sell that too) such things like mousepads, cloth maps, plushies, etc.

But please, no in game items, gold, fame, "guild rating" ($5 for +25 rating for your guild lol), faction, etc...

Age

Age

Hall Hero

Join Date: Jul 2005

California Canada/BC

STG Administrator

Mo/

What about Devine Aura although we were regular account holders to get this for free last year?I wonder what happened with it yes some merchandise might be nice as well?

Crevic

Crevic

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

Elite Vipers Of Hell [EVOH]

Skill Pins!

Venice Queen

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

Washington, DC

A Most Excellent Guild [DUDE]

Mo/Me

Gaile, Please read this,


I cannot stress more that the one thing I want most from this game is the ability to change my character's appearance! Even since I made my first character 14 months ago I've always wanted the ability to make she, a he. Give us a npc that lets us do it.... or just add the option to edit appearance on the login screen. I don't know how complicated this would be for Anet to implement, but it is cake compared to the things you've done in the past! Please listen to me


As for the store, let us buy Ectos, 1$ a pop!





Just kidding.



A loyal customer,
Venice Queen

//RogueNine

//RogueNine

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Rogue Squadron

E/Me

A certain Penny Arcade comic keeps flashing into my head 'With each slash of the sword, a swipe of a credit card!'

The more I think of it, PLEASE dont add any ingame items for real money, promotional or not. I think the urge is too great there to forget skinning nice items for the main game but rather sell them. Many people WILL resent this as the cool weapon skins and the like are what run the economy in a way and give PvEers something to gun for. Add in content like that and you will ruin the game. Period.

Admittedly I would still like to see devine aura...even if it was different to separate if from the original CE.

Jetdoc

Jetdoc

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Jul 2005

The Eyes of Texas [BEVO]

D/A

Are you talking about electronic items or real life items?

I am perfectly fine with real life items (i.e. T-Shirts, Posters, etc.) being offerred in game.

I really don't like the concept of selling (for actual cash) gameplay-related items. I don't mind having the option to pay for certain non-gameplay related items (i.e. extra character slots, different music, backup dancers, customized minipets, etc)...

But I do mind that, for a game that is supposed to be "free online play", to have items that are tied directly to characters cost money. This would include:

1. Weapons and armor. I don't care that they would have the same statistics as other armor/weapons - if it's an item that someone carries in the game, I want the same ability to acquire that item by PLAYING THE GAME, without having to pay actual cash to get it.

2. Bigger storage. Again, storage is a functional part of the game to allow you to store your inventory. Allowing players to "purchase" additional slots goes against the ability of players to maintain a diverse armor set, etal...which restricts their ability to play the game as compared to cash-paying players.

3. Auction house. Again, trading items in game is important to normal gameplay - the ability to generate gold from selling your items to other players. Those that pay to have access to an auction house would have a distinct advantage over those that do not, whether it be acquiring armor or weapons or even buying skills, as they would likely have excess funds available from using the auction house that other non-cash paying players would not.

I would be very disappointed if Guild Wars attempted to charge for any of these items, as it would exclude those of us not willing to pay for "extras" from fully participating in every aspect of the game.

Horseman Of War

Horseman Of War

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

The Cult of Doom

P/

Oh man- I want a Coffee mug with my CULT skull on it

Or a t-shirt, thats fun too.

Skawtt

Skawtt

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Oregon

W/N

Off the top of my head I would love to have a Guild Wars addict coffee mug.

Coffee mugs with elite skills on them ie Spiteful Spirit

More to be added right now I really do need some coffee.....

vinegrower

vinegrower

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

Song of the Forsaken

E/

IF you are to include anything like weapons, mini-pets, etc, please make them customized to the account. It would be a rather bad idea to offer in game items that can then be traded for ingame curency.

For the most part, I think that ingame items (weapons, armor, mini-pets, capes, etc) isn't such a good idea. It just shows that the person has a lot of real money and makes a climate that you need to buy all this stuff to be "cool".

Things I would like to see:
The ability to pre-order both regular editions and collector editions (as long as they are in stock) and have the key automatically added to your account, then have the box shipped later. This way if there is a delay in distrobution like there was with the last CE, we will still be able to play and just wait for the box.

Plushie versions of the pets and mini-pets (well, not all, but a few of them would make cute plushies)

Action figures - if you could get McFarlane to make some figures, I would be in absolute heaven.

Guild Wars shirts, hats, bags, stickers, bumper stickers, etc.

Direct Song access - just to make it a one stop shop

Window Media Player and Winamp skins - I would pay a few bucks for a good quality skin.

log-in screensaver - there was talk a while back about turning the login into a screensaver. Someone made a decent video based one, but it is in a pretty small resolution and not wide screen. A real 3d version, with alternate locations in the game to choose from would be amazing.

Thats all for now, i may have a few more later.

But as you can see, I'd prefer real items to in-game items by a long shot.

makosi

makosi

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

"Pre-nerf" is incorrect. It's pre-buff.

Requirement Begins With R [notQ]

Me/

Can I pay $9.99 for storage space equivelant to what one character can hold? (e.g. 2 bags + runes of holding, backpack and belt pouch). I'll end up buying a character purely for storage anyway but this would be much more convenient.

I also think tangible merchandise would sell well from the GW shop.

Edit: $9.99 = £5.39. Packet of cigarettes in the UK - bargain!

echo envitas

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

E/W

The ability to change our hairstyle - please Gaile!

I can't even play my first beloved character, my necro who has everything unlocked and countless hours of love invested, because I despise her darn pigtails so much!

I'm willing to pay any price... within reason

DiscoRul3z

DiscoRul3z

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2006

Godz

W/A

Access to an auctioneer NPC. He could have an interface similar to the existing storage agent, but with buy and sell tabs instead.

The sell tab would allow you to store an item by dragging to the interface, but when you drop it in, you are prompted to enter the starting bid and buy out price. Items remain until removed or bought.

The buy tab would have an expandable category menu going from most general to most specific, finally showing the item (with all details) along with auction info. Your choices are to buy the item now or place a bid.

Let's get all the spam out of Kaineng/LA/Droks and lets get everyone back into the game =)

Cheers
Alex

ducktape

ducktape

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2005

W/R

I would pay for

Auction House
* although the auction house should be free, I'd pay to get it if necessary.

More Storage Slots at Xunlai

Hair Stylist
* and then I would even pay gold to use it in-game

Accessory Merchant
* lets you create necklaces, hair pins, etc, add gemstones to your armor or weapons for decoration, and so on

Tailor
* sells armor and lets you preview it, also should previews dyes on armor

Auras/Hats/Town Clothes (not tradeable to other players)

Mini-pets (not tradeable to other players)

Those are just things I wouldn't mind paying money for. I have plenty of spare cash so spending more money to add more enjoyable things to my favorite game is not unreasonable to me. I know that's not the case financially for everyone. And no, I would not buy more than one of these if they were character-based, but I would easily buy them all if they were account-based.

I understand that there are financial reasons behind not adding certain things into the game, such as hairstylists, since funds are limited and adding any feature to the game will cause them to spend a big chunk of time and money programming and testing a new feature. That seems to be why we mainly get seasonal events and balancing, but few new fetaures, and also seems why they are tying new features to new chapters so that they can sell another copy of the game and in the process regain money spent developing new features. Can't say I blame them. On the other hand, I also understand that adding a feature for sale in the Guild Wars Store is a risky bet because although players desire it, they may not actually pay for it, so that would mean ANet did all that programming work and made little to no financial return to even things out. I guess we can just cross our fingers about having much-requested 'fun' features added into the Guild Wars Store for purchase, because aside from purchasing a new chapter I think that's going to be the only way to get them. Hey, it's better than paying every month to use the game.

Horseman Of War

Horseman Of War

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

The Cult of Doom

P/

like the double-post bots?

I should hope that the following are never for sale with real world money:

platinum/gold
mini-pets
armor with armor rating
weapons and shields of any kind
the original CE auras (but id pay for a different aura)

Zexion

Zexion

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Warrior Nation [WN]

N/Me

No matter what you add (I saw white dye suggested), do not make it tradeable! This will be like supporting the online buying of gold. If you add white dye in the Cash Shop, and make it tradeable, people will start buying it, and selling it ingame for up to 100k. People will then buy bunches of them, for a specific amount of money, and sell them on to people for money. Will be a substitute of EBaying!

Just today, in the game called FlyFF, I got 500 "GPotatoes" from a promotional coupon. These are used in the game Cash Shop. I then saw a guy buying an item called SProtects (bought in bunches of 5 for 400 GP) for 1 million per piece! These items have a very valid use ingame, to make sure you don't lose your item when you try to upgrade it by a Powerdice. However, as this is normally only done around lvl 60, and I was lvl 20, I found no use for it. I sold 2 of them, making 2 million, a WHOLE LOT compared to the 129,000 I already had. So don't make any of these items tradeable.
Also, in FlyFF, for the hardest boss, it is suggested you bring 1000 or so of an item called Grilled Eel, a Cash Shop consumable used to double max HP.

So don't make any practical items (Candy Canes) available and don't make any items tradeable.

Also, I would be disappointed to see any temporary deals. If you put Divine Aura in there, make it permanent. In FlyFF, you can buy special clothing, that lasts for 1 month or so. Extremely lame, IMO.

_Zexion

Burn Butt

Burn Butt

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2006

Mafia of Annihilation [FeAr]

E/Me

I think if you allow ANY 'in game' items to be purchased you will upset a lot of people. Especially the ones that rant on and on every time they are asked to shell out money for anything, but I think you would also maybe tip some of the people who are on the fence over to the side that doesn't like being charged for anything. One thing that I think makes Guild Wars fun is the idea that if you have on 15k armour or you have a great weapon is that you really had to EARN it. If someone can whip out a credit card for items, armour, etc. then it really diminishes the value of those items in more ways than one....

That being said, here are a couple of things I would LOVE to have the ability to purchase:

- Action Figures .... How cool would that be if I could order an action figure of one of my characters online... I know that would be a pain in the @#% considerring all the different armours/dyes/faces etc for characters, but if possible, I would drop cash for that.

- 'small' addons... I.E.- Sorrows Furnace type of addons for around $10-$15 a pop. I would also love to be able to run from Ascalon to Cantha... a small addon would allow me to do so and increase the seamlessness of the game greatly. Think of them as mini-campaigns....

Ulivious The Reaper

Ulivious The Reaper

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

The Shadowed Assassins

W/Mo

15k knights

Theus

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

W/Mo

Perhaps they can do what other free mmorpgs do,sell skins for wearing over ones armor,you don't get any statisical bonuses,you simply get a different skin for purchasing it over the internet,it would simply rest over the armor stats you have on currently.Of course you would have the ability to turn it on/off.

The milk shake

The milk shake

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2005

Pre-Searing Ascalon

R/

Character Slots, and DEFINITELY i wanna change my characters looks (face, skin color, hair) etc

Former Ruling

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Oct 2005

Cedartown, Georgia

R/

I would buy a T-shirt that had something like "I Use Mending Plus Echo!" on it. with the skill pictures and maybe a whammo on it.

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

different logos/patterns for capes...the old ones suck

design your own..for a price

TGSS

TGSS

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2006

The main features I would like to see added to the store are...

  • Storage Upgrades (This speaks for itself... MORE storage is always good)
  • Name, Appearance and Territory change (Credits?)

Adding the feature to change your name, appearance and territory would allow alot of existing users to make modifications to they're characters without having to delete them especially to those users that purchase 20+ slots in the near future, I think would be pretty profitable since I'm sure there are alot of users that want to make such modifications to they're current characters. Likewise territory change for those users that do it alot (for whatever reason) or that have used up all they're territory change credits.

Maybe handling the Name and Appearance change like the Territory Change method, purchase the features in the store and limited credits are added to your account to make those changes.

Just some suggestions

isamu kurosawa

isamu kurosawa

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

United Kingdom

Me/

Personally i think it shoud be account upgrades only, such as:

Character slots
Directsong
Storage
access keys (such as the 2006 or goty edition)

and something else interesting, Higher Res Textures on Weapons+Armour in game.

things such as weapons, mini-pets etc should be left alone, Also character upgrades such as hair stylists should be added in game for a cost of gold/plat or as quest rewards only.

As much as i'd like to get the proph CE divine aura to go with my dancers i think it woudl undermine thhe idea of the CE and therefore should be left out. (if you realy want them then try and hunt down a sealed copy like i am XD)

lyra_song

lyra_song

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Oct 2005

R/Mo

ok

heres some of my ideas:

UAX - seriously, thats a no brainer.

Promo / Pre-order only skinned weapons - I want a Battlepick....seriously >.< And since they are customized, they cant disrupt the in game economy.

Upgrade regular accounts to collector editions - Divine Aura plox!!!

More storage - er duh o.o

Customized Vanity Armors - More funny hats ^^ zero armor, customized to the account, non-sellable. Not useable in combat at all. but funny!

Eugaet

Eugaet

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

US

Righteous Apathy [RA]

Anything I could add at this point has already been said, but consider this my 'vote'.

Things I'd like to see:
  • Campaign CD-Keys
  • Character Slots [done]
  • DirectSong Music Packs
  • Extra Storage
  • T-Shirts
  • Plushies
  • Action Figures
  • Posters
  • Mugs
  • Those cardboard standups so I don't have to beg the local EBGames for them

Things I don't want to see:
  • CE-specific content (Divine Aura, Backup Dancers, etc...makes the CEs less 'C'.)
  • Gold
  • Materials

I'll have more to add/comment on later.

Witchblade

Witchblade

Polar Bear Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

That Store should ONLY sell:

access keys
extra slots
material storage for those who have only Prophecies
CE stuff (glowing effects etc)

and nothing else than that kinda stuff

no items at all NEVER, not even just a damn skin ....the economy is fu**ed up enough already

Anyway, that should be pretty obvious .. ONE damn gold coin or item in that store and everybody ll quit ...

Ganik Thress

Ganik Thress

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2006

Xen of Onslaught [XoO]

W/E

Yeah, woo! Action figures!

Horseman Of War

Horseman Of War

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

The Cult of Doom

P/

i vote no more storage upgrades atm, personally. its unfair to request real-world money for something like that. Any storage upgrades should be handled like it already is. NO STORAGE UPGRADE!!!

Neo Nugget

Neo Nugget

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

If ya want more storage..just get a character to lug it around lol.

TheMosesPHD

TheMosesPHD

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2006

Oregon

Mo Mo Patty Blinks [MoMo]

R/

Most everyone has seen those electronic plush dinosaur slippers that growl whenever you take a step. Let's see some Charr slippers!

-PC Skins
-Car Window Plushies (the ones with the suction cups on the hands that cling to the window.)
-GW Floor Rugs. (Holy crap you know you all want this. Instead of a Bear-skin rug, a Charr-skin rug!!!)
-Zippo Lighters.

Neo Nugget

Neo Nugget

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

Yeah mini campaigns for around 20-25 bucks every...say about every 3 months for each campaign.Prophecies FTW

Sai of Winter

Sai of Winter

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

[ale]

Mo/

Here's what I think should be offer from the ingame store:

-Character slots: already here
-Keys to upgrade from standard to special edition (divine aura, back-up dancers, etc.): meh
-Special Cokeplay type items (non-tradeable): meh, they're not so great
-Real life merchandise: i.e. plushies, clothing, mugs, posters, etc.
-Of course keys for preorder items and future campaigns
-Expansions to existing Chapters: I'm okay with, as long as they include a decent storyline, missions, quests, new races to play, and large areas (more than the SF update).

What should not be sold for real money:

-Auction houses: free global update
-Alternating character appearance: free global update
-Updating storage: free update like the material storage, which should have been global.
-New areas to current maps: free update like SF
-Materials/mods/armor/weapons
-Gold: who would be crazy enough to buy virtual gold with real money? -__-;

What I'm not sure of that should be offer:

-Storage slots: I really don't know what should be done about this, free global update or optional purchase with real money?

Spike

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

In front of my PC

Kai

E/Mo

I'm all for out of game items like t-shirts, mugs and other nice stuff like that. Extra character slots would be nice too. Don't see the need for much else. UAX/UAS VERY BAD IDEA.

The REASON why people bot is that selling gold makes them money IF they can no longer sell it as ANET is doing it so cheap its not worth thier while NO MORE BOTS.

The longer games are live the more that suffer from inflation. The only way to stop this is A) Stop money comeing in (bad idea) B) Create GOOD enough money sinks that ensure enough money goes out of the system to compensate for the money comeing in (good idea but hard to do)

Markaedw

Markaedw

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

N/

I can now see how in-game items can cause problems, but Propheces CE is selling for $90+ on Amazon, so divine aorura might be sold with out dirsupting the ingame economy, or the uniqueness off the aurora.

So any weapons, sheilds and focus items or any in-game stuff needs to be really tought about before they become purchaseable.

RL stuff, feel free to go wild!!!

AceeBlueEagle

AceeBlueEagle

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

ASH -Ashes of Humanity

R/

Here are my ideas (many of which are repeats)

1) Sell collector green weapons (Coke/Pepsi/blah blah items)

2) Special emotes outside of the pvp ones

3) Special Pets - such as mini-oni or mini-candy corns or mini-MAD KING!!!!

4) Sell a bodyguard bot that would become your custom assistant in game instances.... kinda like a custom henchie with an assignable name. One that goes beyond what Nightfall is suggesting with NPC Henchies.

5) Expansions to pre-current chapter release, such as updates to Chpt 1 & 2 once Chpt 3 is released

6) I'm on the fence about ANet selling gold. There is no cost effective way for them to stop it on ebay.... I like the idea of adding an interest rate impact on the gold in storage.

7) Custom armor / colors / effects

8) Sharks with laser beams on their friggin' heads

9) Stuffed plush Fortune Teller doll that says things like 'Good! Good!' and 'Beware the Harvest Ceremony!'

*officially out of ideas

blackjoker4215

blackjoker4215

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

SNOW

W/P

I would love to see GW clothes and toys, like plush toys. I would be a big fan of that!

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

GW clothing - dont know about you lot but when i was growing up the kids wearing clothing based on computer games got beat up alot..its your ass

EDIT: spike there is one gold sink they could add...a more exspensive version of FoW armor *im wearing flame proof clothing*

this adds a large gold sink to those that can afford, another lower end gold sink could be armor based have 50k armor instead of 15k or something along those lines..

Nevin

Nevin

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2005

I'd really like a more "themed" backround. With instead of my characters on a pedistal. Having them sit down in an "inn" type enviorment. Having them stand in different locations. Etc etc..

MMSDome

MMSDome

Raged Out

Join Date: Sep 2005

Horseman(the 2nd post in the thread) made the suggestion of more login screens which i agree with id love to see that.

-Purchasing of The Game(s) Soundtrack(s)
-Obviously more character slots (although i will not be purchasing any)
-Action Figures!
-T-Shirts (And other apparel)
-Posters, stickers, etc.
-Coffee Mugs!
-Guild Wars The Movie (You guys have to do this!!!)
-Guild Wars Candy (give us good tasting half-eaten masses or fruit snacks where we can eat Prince Rurik, Shiro, Mhenlo, and other things we get frustrated at!)

Thats all i can think of at the moment, good luck in sorting the store out I know its gonna be great!