What would you like to see in the Ingame Store?

more storage upgrades so that the poor Xunlai worker doesnt have an S at the end of upgrades for nothing.

I want to be able to buy other countries' promo items.

Also, the upgrading a regular account to a CE thing.

Sorry, but Im one of those that DO want to be able to buy an aura. If we really knew about it when we got our original copies maybe we would have hunted harder for one, but as is the store we bought from only had the standard copy anyhow and I am not going to shell out $130 for just a glow now.

I would like to buy backup dancers for the core professions. :-)

Plushies FTW!! Skill pins, large mugs (something that will hold the coffee we need to play all night...*L*) Guild Wars printed blankets anyone?

An official created desktop theme package maybe? With nifty screensavers and all. I would pay a couple bucks for that.

I just ask that any downloadable things that we buy not be too pricey, we do have bills to pay but still would love to support GW by getting a few nifty things.

If ANET wants to tap GW-consumers for additional sales and profits, then they have to provide items that 1) have actual demand 2) won't impact game play 3) won't impact the present game economy. However, it makes zero sense to market small-ticket items like t-shirts, mouse pads, etc... if the profit margin doesn't exceed the infrastructure and maintenance requirements needed to deploy and maintain an online store. ANET does have to sell a few higher priced items in order to bring in real significant profits. One-time software sales won't sustain GW indefinitely.

Extra characters slots, Prophesies CE-keys, and Factions CE keys fulfill all 3 criteria... people want them, they don't give an unfair edge in-game, and they are not tradable.

I just checked amazon.com, and the lone new Prophesies CE copy for sale has a $140 USD price tag. I'd rather give my money to ANET, but if they don't recognize the fact that their CE-keys have real demand from real world deep-pocket players like myself, then I won't have a choice except to buy one of the few remaining CE-editions from whatever e-tailer still has them.

So, if ANET wants additional significant profits, they need but generate a CE-key for players like myself to purchase.

the ability to give us keys so we can play the chapters we paid for before your distribution/publishing channel breaks down again

that sucked. big time.

I think if we can't sell ingame items or gold etc for real money (for good reason) then ANet shouldn't either.

Possibly some sort of pre-customized purely vanity decorative stuff but anything that can be traded in game will just basically legalize buying gold.

Keep it to stuff like character slots and storage tabs and then mechandise like skill pins, card sets, action figures, etc.

edit: oh and I just had a thought. What about high end rendered prints of our favorite toons in their full regalia with weapons etc.

no ingame items please, including aura, character models, capes and such, anything seable by other people is pretty much something I really dont want, dont want to have to pay money to get items, or end up buying a collectors edition when the little ingame bonus wouldve come later anyway. Cosmetic things do matter, its not something you have to buy, but everyone wants a fellblade or 15k armor and I really dont want to have to shell out extra cash just to get cool looking things, or have cheap free stuff compared to the awesome items.

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chapters of course, including CE and etc.

merchendise sounds great- including artwork from artists at anet

interface type upgrades, like background changes, maybe skill icon changes

something to unlock skills would be good to, just to help people catch up pvp wise much quicker

music!

extra storage (im hesitant on it , but really if you want extra storage you can just buy mule characters so really at this point it makes sence)

Maybe some special armour that's no stronger than the highest armour class, just looks different?

Sorry if thats been suggested already...

Ok, nothing intangible except game keys and character slots. With these two exceptions, nothing PHYSICAL. This game isn't about who has the most gold / maxxed out credit card so don't bring ingame items into an out of game store, I don't care how inoccuous they are.

for the tangible; someone a few pages back mentioned a jade/amber chess set, great idea, various articles of clothing, the art books, perhaps in coffee table format, all collected into a single book. The artwork from the Factions CE, in poster form (some of those pictures are great and would look awesome on a wall), a selction of the preliminary artwork from Factions and Prophecies (and Nightfall), also in poster size. Assorted doodads such as mugs, mousepads, etc. Maybe a making of DVD.

I doubt they will give us "special" armor. I agree with the storage. I rly hope that they dont make CE codes available to everyone cause i feel that would be unfair to the CE people.

What I would like: Stupid Armor: Make it like 1 for each class, only 1 set of stats like energy for casters and whatever for the others.

Snowman Armor- I would pay $50 for that one
Candy Corn armor- WOOT
Santa Armor- Call it something else due to the religon thing
Charr Armor- OMG OMG OMG

By stupid armor i mean, well u know what i mean SNOWMAN ARMOR WOOT.

UAX for PvP key pretty please! Or at least a key that lets you unlock 8 skills and the required runes and mods. Buying unlocks would give you no in-game advantage over someone that unlocked them the slow way as long as the UAX only affects PvP characters.

There will be people like me who do not mind grinding faction to unlock everything, but people who don't have much free time but still want to compete (like my friends who gave up on Guild Wars after seeing how slow the unlocking is) are stucking running paladins and spell slashers for weeks before they can play a useful build.

Bots, Cheat Codes, and Gold.....

lol jk. I like to see some plushie toys, T-shirts, coffee mugs and clocks.

I'd like to see an SOE logo on the page from which you buy items, as there was a time when Arena-Net was better than the money grubbers at SOE, that time seems to be passing though.

-Hats
-Beards and goatees
-Hairstyles (unique)
- Special armor textures
-Misc party items (food and drink)
- I want to be able to buy Dragon Daggers from the preorder!
- Misc festival and event items
- Unique masks

I would like to buy an inter account trading screen at login. For example, I want to move all my junk from 5 characters into my sixth character. I would like to be able to open all their inventory and the xunlai storage box just from one account login page rather than having to logon into each individual character, move item to storage, log out, relogon with the 6th character, move the items from xunlai storage into bag, etc.

I'd love plushies! I wanna Grasp of Insanity!

And Skill Pins/Mugs and all that crap which has been mentioned already.

very cool idea.

as much as i would .. i would like divine aura for my account to be in the store, as well as a missed event hat, sorry but no.

It deminishes the whole reason to get these things, be at the right place at the right time, hardcore, with gws since the beginning, etc. well as much as i would LOVE to have divine aura for my rit, i wouldnt give up my own factions CE to be purchasably 10$ add on for someone else's account. it demeans the special essence of these things. if you want CE go BUY CE.

t shirts seem nice, they should probably stay as a gift from gw devs to winners of contests (that gives a nice feeling being the only one with a t-shirt) etc.

only thing else i would have to say i would like is action figures, sure, but even so, i wouldn't buy more than a few so it would be a waste to even bother with that route.

so then,

- no to the following -

1) CE add ons
2) t-shirts
3) action figures
4) event gifts
5) skins (weapon or armor)
6) UAU / UAS (UAX)
7) gold (God forbid)
8) hair stylist (if there is to be one, have it added to chapter 3...-not purchasable)

I can see why Gaile would ask us what should be in the store, cause i dont really see any ideas myself other than slots. slots are fair due to the fact that, theres more professions than the amount of slots we have from the beginning. As well as a potentional PVP slot.

so yeah.... ill keep tryin to think of somehting worth while, but so far, i see nothing good.

I want a real Fellblade

Especially stuffed animals

Plus chapters, posters, maps, pencil cases, etc

Also, more storage space please.