A.net all I want this Wintersday...

...is to be able to buy the ORIGINAL Wintersday hat. Hell I'd paid £5 for it! Its just that damn good looking.

I'm sure plenty of other people would pay someone for it as well.

Please don't encourage more of these damn macro transactions. Teach Anet they need to provide actual game content if they want moar monies.

Wow, people are begging for micros. Not good.

Sell the Yule Cap? I don't think that's a good idea.

Selling it would make some people happy, I'm sure, but it would also make many people very frustrated as well.

Now that we can actually wear the hats as armor, I do wish that I had them on my primary account instead of the one I ditched a few years ago, but it's nothing I would pay for.

All I want this Wintersday is a mini Polar Bear. =[

shoyon no offense to you but i think that u have got the wrong idea. Gw AND Anet are providing amazing content already for free. In case you haver not noticed the gw team are making GW2 which will be a good mmo just a gw is and they wont do wow monthly payment crap. however if you haven't realized they still have to pay those people working on the 2 gw's s micro transcations are perfectly acceptable as long as they don't give you an advantage in game.
However i do have to agree as a 4 year player with the original hats form all events i would be sincerely pissed of if you could buy them as it "you have to have been there" kinda of thing

Why can't it be like this:

No matter what year it is and what hat is being given, the only thing you must do is a (newly added) quest to get "The Missing Hats" which should take ~ 20 mins and then you can just talk to the festival hat maker and have access to all the hats.

Who said I was begging?

Anyways...

Well they do need to make money to keep the servers running one way or another. I think its easy for people to forget the amount of power, bandwidth and hardware that goes into maintaining this game.

If anything I'd love a chance to get a hat I missed.

damn i'd love that one too! i got the pointy looking one. why is it so pointy anyway? WHAT'S HIDING UNDER THE HAT ANET!?

Waldo, but if anet wants money, they need to make hats VERY cheap (1-2$) or something along the lines of what i said above.

No offense, but I think you don't realize that Anet CHOSE a no monthly business plan. They're also choosing the same for GW2. I paid for GW1, not GW2, which is a completely different game and not dependent on whether or not I play(ed) GW1.

If they can't keep the lights on without these macrotransactions, then obviously their initial business plan failed. And FYI, NCSoft is shelling out the money to produce GW2. As far as I'm concerned their resources are widely available as long as GW2 is on schedule. It's a slippery slope, and considering that once upon a time it was said GW would "never use microtransactions" I wonder what other changes they might have in their business plan that contradict their founding premises.

As far as the hats go, if they're made available again, it should be via a very difficult quest. It should not be another method for Anet to milk its' remaining scarce community. The game is dying slowly and painfully, no one will care if they're made available again. But many will care if Anet acts like any other greedy company.

Micro-transactions would be awesome if they can implement more and more items into the trade. I whole-heartedly agree with the op's idea.

yes shoyon ur points are interseting but the thing is they need the moemny to keep running the servers and such like. theres nothing wrong with micro transcations if you dont want them dont buy them.

sorry to the other guys but the thing with the original hat is that it is rare. if you were there from the start its yours.

Wow SHoyoine what that about going back to korea FYI NC soift started in korea and half of its games are korean. and lots of games do what she is suggesting * coughs* DDO,Lotro,Aldos,Alagon,CoH

every time i see one of these threads encouraging Anet to switch to a microtransaction model i want to pull my hair out

please, dont encourage them, because you know they will

Again, if they need money to keep the servers running, then their business plan of no monthly fee FAILED. Their fault, not mine and no one should have to pay for their failure.

I said ARENANET. ARENANET produced GW1 and manages it. ARENANET is producing GW2. ARENANET is its' own studio. It is OWNED and funded by NCSOFT, but it is not a korean gaming company that relies on microtransactions to bleed it's community for all its' worth. And I don't play those other games for the same reason. Often I find myself playing GW now only because what it was like when it FIRST released, for nostalgia purposes. And please spell my handle correctly.

again shoyon get ur facts right: the actual buisness plan was to release a new full priced campaign every 6 months. however jeff strein and the team decided they wanted to radically change the guild wars so many loved so they decided they had to make a new game so as not to piss of the hardcore gw players.
they did want to keep this gw going and they need the money so they want the micro transcationg.

Although i bow to your greater knowledge on the whole ARENANET thing i must point out that it is the NCsoft store so technically u are in a hole and as NCsoft is korean they can do korean 'stuff'

oh yeah u screwed up your argument by saying NC soft funds areananet and then saying this should have no korean effect on the game

Nude costume armor for females?

I want a cat ear helmet. I also want the dwayna get-up but I don't trust the store.

Ouuu, that would be cool. Maybe make it a seasonal thing? Like during the month of December they sell Wintersday hats and same goes for October with Halloweenie hats.... or whatever.

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A-Net is a subsidary of NCSoft, who are Korean.

You're referring to the Yule Cap, right? I was lucky enough to be around in '05 to get one, and it is a marvelous hat. I intentionally did not get the '06 one because it's hideous. It looks like someone got in a tug-of-war match with their dog with the way it's stretched out. "Stylish" my ass.

I don't see the big deal about selling this particular thing. It's already in the game anyway and the only other way to get it would be a time machine. Now pardon me while I go bang my head against the wall for hearing about this "free" stuff that I've spent ~$200 on over the course of +4 years.