A Customize Option

[SeeD]

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2008

Yama Seki

A/

I already know what most of you are thinking, but look at it this way.

Most of the time when I see people who want to change their chars face, hair, color,etc they want Anet to make an NPC in a town that they pay 1k or so to change something, and the problem with that is that Anet doesnt benifet from it that way, so how about makeing something in the in game store for 10dollars or so that would let u " before u log in" ( Login | Delete | create )
How about a customize option? You can choose his\ her height hair,face etc before logging in or it could be with the Historian as the Bonus Mission Pack in kamadon Kaineng or Lions arch.

I think this way would let us players finally be able to change our favorite chars and Anet could make alot of money doing so.

/signed

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Hodgie

Hodgie

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2006

On A Chair

Rise Of Corruption

Mo/

/not signed


if you werent happy with how you toon looked you should have re-made before you started with them. stop asking for these please people.....its not gonna happen!

[SeeD]

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2008

Yama Seki

A/

Well the thing was my character was an assassin. That way i didnt really see his face ( the mask ) so when i finnaly saw it i was like WOAH WHAT DID I DO. also i kinda rushed into the game because my friends had GW about three months before me and i didnt have it so i just wanted to play as soon as possible. And ive ben playing for about 10 months and ive only played my sin ( he was my only char) until about 2 months ago wen i started makeing new chars

Shayne Hawke

Shayne Hawke

Departed from Tyria

Join Date: May 2007

Clan Dethryche [dth]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hodgie
/not signed


if you werent happy with how you toon looked you should have re-made before you started with them. stop asking for these please people.....its not gonna happen!
It's not that hard to pull out a brush or a comb, put your hair a different way, slap on some make-up or some new clothes, and totally have a new appearance. It doesn't deserve to be any harder here.

/signed. btw, this has been suggested before, and you could probably find the most-posted thread if you'd use search.

miskav

miskav

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

None

Mo/

*Shrug* Changing your appearance is something people want, but paying real money for it? Purely a waste imo.
If you REALLY want it, you'll remake the char, if you think it's a waste of the char, you don't want it.

/notsigned.

[SeeD]

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2008

Yama Seki

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by miskav
*Shrug* Changing your appearance is something people want, but paying real money for it? Purely a waste imo.
If you REALLY want it, you'll remake the char, if you think it's a waste of the char, you don't want it.

/notsigned.
well as i said my sin was my only char for 8 months and i played everyday week days 2-3 hours and some weekends 5 hours a day. Thats beating all the games buying elite armor getting all sin skills and more and i never said that i wanted it badly it was just a suggestion, also this hasnt ben suggested this a new method of doing it.

El Presidente

El Presidente

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Lookout Post #1, Andes Mountains

Custer Was Ganked [7th]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by miskav
*Shrug* Changing your appearance is something people want, but paying real money for it? Purely a waste imo.
If you REALLY want it, you'll remake the char, if you think it's a waste of the char, you don't want it.

/notsigned.
Agreed; yet, every few days or so a thread like this gets started...

/not signed

Konig Des Todes

Konig Des Todes

Ooo, pretty flower

Join Date: Jan 2008

Citadel of the Decayed

The Archivists' Sanctum [Lore]

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by miskav
*Shrug* Changing your appearance is something people want, but paying real money for it? Purely a waste imo.
If you REALLY want it, you'll remake the char, if you think it's a waste of the char, you don't want it.

/notsigned.
Wins the thread. Its not so much that it doesn't benefit ANet, its that ANet has more priorities then this. /signed for adding a Barber, /signed for making it a money sink, /notsigned for a real money sink.

Panais

Panais

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2008

Binge And Purge [HET]

D/W

/not signed

armor covers most of the felsh anyway in warrior situation coers it all up, height makes no difference, so grow up and play the game. if u want to play dress up go to your local Toys-r-us and buy some Barbie dolls

Itokaru

Itokaru

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2008

BC, Canada

Disciples of the Fish

R/Mo

Why not? Even if people aren't going to use it, it can't hurt to have the option available.

/signed

[SeeD]

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2008

Yama Seki

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Panais
/not signed

armor covers most of the felsh anyway in warrior situation coers it all up, height makes no difference, so grow up and play the game. if u want to play dress up go to your local Toys-r-us and buy some Barbie dolls
wtf is this ? ur not going to sign because of a height? and its pretty obvious the armor would adjust with it, use ur brain dude. And im pretty sure u cant change the size of barbie dolls, so why dont u grow up and stop trying dude

Quote:
Originally Posted by El Presidente
Agreed; yet, every few days or so a thread like this gets started...

/not signed
thats not true these dont get started every few days or so, i kno this because i started my registration a week ago and i just got aloud to post today and i havent seen anything that hadnt ben posted WEEKS ago
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Shadowspawn X

Shadowspawn X

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fellowship of Champions

R/E

/not signed

This is GUILD WARS not BARBIE DRESS-UP!

El Presidente

El Presidente

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Lookout Post #1, Andes Mountains

Custer Was Ganked [7th]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by [SeeD]
thats not true these dont get started every few days or so, i kno this because i started my registration a week ago and i just got aloud to post today and i havent seen anything that hadnt ben posted WEEKS ago
It's a figure of speech. It doesn't mean that every 2 days (literally) someone makes a thread about it. It has been brought up before, either by direct thread or by posting to another topic (for example: what event would you like to see?) and no matter how it's voted on, Anet has said it's a "possibility" for GW2...but NOT now.

Here's the link from Oct '07 and what Gaile said: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...0206673&page=9

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gaile Gray
Adding an "appearance changer" is far more complex than toggling a male/female swap for a character, as we did on April 1st. Some suggest hair dressers, instead of a complete new-look option. I have never denied, nor would I, that we can do a gender switch with programming. It's possible that the programmers could do additional changes, with hugely more complex programming, but that work would most likely be made even more complicated by the fact that few players would be content with a gender swap, they'd want the full deal: all hair choices, all face choices, a height selector, etc.

I do agree with you guys that having such options -- any or all of them -- would be great. But the designers tell me we will not be adding these features to Guild Wars for very logical reasons, such as time, the long path involved in moving towards other projects, etc. We honestly cannot stop some staff members' involvement in the development on Guild Wars 2 to spend months on this feature, and I believe I understand that it would take months. (Consider how long Hard Mode took each time, and Reconnects, for a point of reference.)

We will, of course, consider the possibilities of appearance change options, even as an in-game store option (which some players have suggested), for Guild Wars 2. In the meantime, we have been talking about other fun options that are not completely out of the realm of possibility and which may find their way into Guild Wars. It's too early to talk about them yet, but we'll see.

[SeeD]

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2008

Yama Seki

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shadowspawn X
/not signed

This is GUILD WARS not BARBIE DRESS-UP!
barbie dress up has nothing to do with it, and if its going to be a possibility for GW2 then would u buy that because then that would be barbie dress up wouldnt it huh? no it wouldnt in barbie dressup ( no clue wat that is ) u change pony shirts or something not change their faces dumby

Quote:
Originally Posted by El Presidente
It's a figure of speech. It doesn't mean that every 2 days (literally) someone makes a thread about it. It has been brought up before, either by direct thread or by posting to another topic (for example: what event would you like to see?) and no matter how it's voted on, Anet has said it's a "possibility" for GW2...but NOT now.

Here's the link from Oct '07 and what Gaile said: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...0206673&page=9
sorry for wasting ppls time on this theorem i did not kno gaile had sed that and i guess i would just like to say im closing this forum although most ppl in Gw would like it to happen Anet has decided not to do it, but MAYBE haveing it in GW2 i guess makes u have something to look forward to righT?

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El Presidente

El Presidente

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Lookout Post #1, Andes Mountains

Custer Was Ganked [7th]

R/

Hopefully GW2 will have a lot of the ideas that were suggested here (that the majority /signed) and are not in game now. Some ideas are good; others were overwhelmingly /not signed. At least Anet replied, even if a "considering the possibility in GW2", so we can only wait and see...

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

/notsigned
We aren't maple story.

Paying money for in game features is a slippery slope.

PS: Don't troll people who disagree with your ideas. Its a public forum. People have the right to disagree with you.

Shadowspawn X

Shadowspawn X

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fellowship of Champions

R/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by [SeeD]
barbie dress up has nothing to do with it, and if its going to be a possibility for GW2 then would u buy that because then that would be barbie dress up wouldnt it huh? no it wouldnt in barbie dressup ( no clue wat that is ) u change pony shirts or something not change their faces dumby
This game is about making soldiers to kick butt be it pvp or mursatt or summit dwarves. Its not about making your girlie toon look cute. GW is a war zone not a fashion show.

shru

shru

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shadowspawn X
This game is about making soldiers to kick butt be it pvp or mursatt or summit dwarves. Its not about making your girlie toon look cute. GW is a war zone not a fashion show.
So the hundreds of armor sets, (thousands of armor combinations) hundreds of weapons, and thousands of character creation possibilities mean nothing, right?
Seriously, think before you post something, it might save you a lot of trouble next time. (or at least try to suppress your raging prepubescent hormones.)

to OP: /notsigned, because this idea has been suggested dozens of other times in dozens of better ways.

AidinSwiftarrow

AidinSwiftarrow

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2008

Lion's Arch

R/Mo

/notsigned

This is a FREE game, not a game based on cash shops or Pay-to-Play

I would only /sign if it was in-game and money sink for people with money...which isn't me....

Shadowspawn X

Shadowspawn X

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fellowship of Champions

R/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by shru
So the hundreds of armor sets, (thousands of armor combinations) hundreds of weapons, and thousands of character creation possibilities mean nothing, right?
Armors and weapons are more along the line of the spoils of war since you advance from starter armor to full armor to elite armors as your toon has more experience, also weapons drop directly from defeated foes. Beauty makeovers don't even fit the game. Try following the storyline and keeping your suggestions within the context of the actual game. Your toon is actually a soldier even though referred to as a hero not a beauty contestant. Is that concept too hard for you to understand?


Quote:
Originally Posted by shru
Seriously, think before you post something, it might save you a lot of trouble next time. (or at least try to suppress your raging prepubescent hormones.)
You need to calm down yourself with the stupid adolescent insults and try to think yourself before you throw out something that makes makes no sense like your moronic armor/weapon comparison Any guy that thinks a warrior upgrading his axe is remotely similar to a warrior going to a beauty salon is the person with a problem thinking.

shru

shru

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shadowspawn X
Armors and weapons are more along the line of the spoils of war since you advance from starter armor to full armor to elite armors as your toon has more experience, also weapons drop directly from defeated foes. Beauty makeovers don't even fit the game. Try following the storyline and keeping your suggestions within the context of the actual game. Your toon is actually a soldier even though referred to as a hero not a beauty contestant. Is that concept too hard for you to understand?
It's not that I don't understand the concept, It's that you're logic is flawed in so many ways. (again, it's probably those prebuescent hormones) For starters, people rarely kill enemies or open chests for these rare items, they pay other people for them, like splurging for a make-over. Which of course all goes to equiping their character for the E-peen race, which you could directly call a beauty contest.



Quote:
Originally Posted by Shadowspawn X
You need to calm down yourself with the stupid adolescent insults and try to think yourself before you throw out something that makes makes no sense like your moronic armor/weapon comparison Any guy that thinks a warrior upgrading his axe is remotely similar to a warrior going to a beauty salon is the person with a problem thinking.
Considering Anet prides themselves in having a skill > time/equipment based game, the "upgrades" you're talking about don't actualy exist. A 125g collector sword has exactly the same stats and functionality as your 100k+XXXe req9 crystalline/eternal blade.
People don't buy these armors and weapons to "upgrade" anything but their outward apearance, and because GW offers no high level reward aside from cosmetic changes and apparel.
But if all this bothers you, I could give you a Cootie Vaccination and we can get on with our lives.

Shadowspawn X

Shadowspawn X

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fellowship of Champions

R/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by shru
people rarely kill enemies or open chests for these rare items, they pay other people for them, like splurging for a make-over.
Nearly every rare item in this game comes from slain enemies and chests. The fact that people buy and trade their items for ones they prefer don't change this. The prestige of a weapon doesn't have anything to do with the looks but in the difficulty of obtaining it. A tormented weapon may not be sightly at all but the prestige of the item comes from saying you beat DoA. Stormbows, chaos axes, and zodiac weapons are all linked to conquest of elite areas and are spoils of war.

Quote:
Originally Posted by shru
Which of course all goes to equiping their character for the E-peen race, which you could directly call a beauty contest.
No, the e-peen race exists but its not about looks its about taking a trophy from a defeated foe and saying I been there and done that, its about titles and emotes as well. E-peen is basically saying I can play the heck out of Guild Wars its not about beauty.

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Originally Posted by shru
But if all this bothers you, I could give you a Cootie Vaccination and we can get on with our lives.
What bothers me is that you are shallow enough to equate equipment with a hair style, in a self serving logic that just doesn't work.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

GW has a policy of 'pay once'.

So I would agree with a 'customization kit' if it was paid once, and once paid, it would be available forever inside the game (Probably as a new NPC in each Event Town)

But I will NEVER, EVER agree with a 'pay each time' micropaiment feature.
I will agree with 'Pay once', and 'Pay once' ONLY.

Airstu

Airstu

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2007

BC, eh

Liars Cheats and thieves [liar]

Quote:
Quote:
Originally Posted by shru
people rarely kill enemies or open chests for these rare items, they pay other people for them, like splurging for a make-over.
originally Posted by Shadowspawn X
Nearly every rare item in this game comes from slain enemies and chests. The fact that people buy and trade their items for ones they prefer don't change this. The prestige of a weapon doesn't have anything to do with the looks but in the difficulty of obtaining it. A tormented weapon may not be sightly at all but the prestige of the item comes from saying you beat DoA. Stormbows, chaos axes, and zodiac weapons are all linked to conquest of elite areas and are spoils of war.
Ah , I get it - If I have a cool weapon, its because Im showing off my victory spols, not my e-peen of beauty. Awsome! I am teh 1337 vanquisher of the sacred realm of Ebay - all bow to me OOOPS! No wait I reallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly earned these tormented items on my lv1 Wammo.

/notsigned for real money pay for customization
/signed Shadowspawn X has a huge epeen