I'm sure Title Tomes have already been suggested, but this may be a new twist, which "sweetens the pot" for ANet.
First, a "Title Tome" is like a skill Tome. While a skill tome allows a character to learn a skill that is already unlocked on the account, a Title tome would allow a character to gain a title that a different character has already earned.
Clearly, this would only be for titles that are not "account based." So, for example, I have one character with Survivor and a different character with Legendary Defender of Ascalon. However, I chose a third character to work on God Walking Among Mere Mortals. I am currently stalled out at 28 titles and am grinding out two LOOOONG titles to try to finish GWAMM. It would be GREAT to get two title tomes and finish GWAMM. I've already done the work, just on different characters.
But here's the benefit for ANet...rather than make these random drops from killing foes, make them available through the store as a micro-transaction, and make them untradable. That way, people cannot "sell" them.
I think $10 per tome would be about right, though I personally might pay as much as $20 each.
Title Tomes for sale
dts720666
Mora
You hear people complaining about "money titles," where they just buy each title (sweet, party, drunkard, wisdom, zaishen, etc), and you want to make it possible for "real money titles."
No, sorry.
No, sorry.
Eragon Zarroc
mmmmm, very tempting. I would prolly pay for one or two to get survivor on my war who was around before titles existed, but it would be unfair for people who actually had to grind out to GWAMM before being able to get something like this.
like it, but /notsigned because it just isn't fair
like it, but /notsigned because it just isn't fair
Gabriel of Ravn
Sweet, drunkard, and party animal bought by anyone nty they aren't that difficult to get just time consuming on the drunkard.
/notsigned
/notsigned
Cuilan
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Sweet, drunkard, and party animal bought by anyone nty they aren't that difficult to get
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Del
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Please feel free to share a couple of your many stacks of ecto with us non-farmers.
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dts720666
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You hear people complaining about "money titles," where they just buy each title (sweet, party, drunkard, wisdom, zaishen, etc), and you want to make it possible for "real money titles."
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easy to say something that easy is hard if you don't want to put forth the effort to farm, or trade to buy the titles, but they really aren't difficult to get. maybe GW should get a welfare system so the lazy can haz money too.
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SunfallE
/not signed
If I'm going to spend more real money on the game, I'd spend it on costumes or something that doesn't inflate one's title via one's pocketbook.
If I'm going to spend more real money on the game, I'd spend it on costumes or something that doesn't inflate one's title via one's pocketbook.
Nerel
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easy to say something that easy is hard if you don't want to put forth the effort to farm, or trade to buy the titles, but they really aren't difficult to get. maybe GW should get a welfare system so the lazy can haz money too.
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Title tomes /notsigned
Really, selling titles in the online store for cash is just fail, titles are meant to be something of an achievement... remembering your credit card details isn't any sort of achievement worth celebrating...
Shayne Hawke
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So, for example, I have one character with Survivor and a different character with Legendary Defender of Ascalon. However, I chose a third character to work on God Walking Among Mere Mortals. I am currently stalled out at 28 titles and am grinding out two LOOOONG titles to try to finish GWAMM. It would be GREAT to get two title tomes and finish GWAMM. I've already done the work, just on different characters.
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But here's the benefit for ANet...rather than make these random drops from killing foes, make them available through the store as a micro-transaction, and make them untradable. That way, people cannot "sell" them. I think $10 per tome would be about right, though I personally might pay as much as $20 each. |
reaper with no name
/signed on the condition that it ONLY applies to titles which provide mechanical benefits, such as Asura or Lightbringer. Any "bling" titles should have to be earned the old fashioned way.
In fact, for such mechanically based titles I wouldn't even require another character on the account to have achieved them.
In fact, for such mechanically based titles I wouldn't even require another character on the account to have achieved them.
Shriketalon
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easy to say something that easy is hard if you don't want to put forth the effort to farm, or trade to buy the titles, but they really aren't difficult to get. maybe GW should get a welfare system so the lazy can haz money too.
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Horace Slughorn
Yes. And a mini unlock pack for $100. Then its just a matter of saving up your allowance before you win GW 
Gift3d
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But here's the benefit for ANet...rather than make these random drops from killing foes, make them available through the store as a micro-transaction, and make them untradable. That way, people cannot "sell" them.
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Del
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The problem with drunkard isn't getting the ale. It's sitting on one's rear drinking it, all the while thinking "Why shouldn't I bot this?"
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talon994
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easy to say something that easy is hard if you don't want to put forth the effort to farm, or trade to buy the titles, but they really aren't difficult to get. maybe GW should get a welfare system so the lazy can haz money too.
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OT: Go buy the costumes and dance around like a fairy. We don't need to be given more items to buy through the store.
Kook~NBK~
/not signed
Believe it or not, The good people of A-Net want you to play the game.
Believe it or not, The good people of A-Net want you to play the game.
Just.nl
Ohh yess then you can get 12x GWAMM!
/notsigned. This would really destroy the "GWAMM" title. Then you can have it 12 times for 30 titles you maxed. So not an great idea imo.
And you dont even need Survivor or LDoA to reach GWAMM, so why bother if you dont have those titles?
/notsigned. This would really destroy the "GWAMM" title. Then you can have it 12 times for 30 titles you maxed. So not an great idea imo.
And you dont even need Survivor or LDoA to reach GWAMM, so why bother if you dont have those titles?
Terrible Surgeon
Titles are tainted enough and meaningless enough as they are. You're making them even more meaningless with this idea.
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calamari cruiser
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Probably the worst idea i ever saw anywhere. Seriously. You are joking right?
If you arnt you should go back to playing with your teddy bear or something.
Titles are so easy already its lame as it is and you want to make it buyable?
You can get gwamm in a matter of months.
And no you dont need to be rich to get gwamm.
Most i ever had at a time was 500kish lol :P
But usualy more like 50k unless if im savign for something ^^
PS: i dont have survivor or ldoa on my war either :P
PPS: The money needed for drunkard, sweet and party can be obtained in a few weeks of relaxed farming :P
Probably the worst idea i ever saw anywhere. Seriously. You are joking right?
If you arnt you should go back to playing with your teddy bear or something.
Titles are so easy already its lame as it is and you want to make it buyable?
You can get gwamm in a matter of months.
And no you dont need to be rich to get gwamm.
Most i ever had at a time was 500kish lol :P
But usualy more like 50k unless if im savign for something ^^
PS: i dont have survivor or ldoa on my war either :P
PPS: The money needed for drunkard, sweet and party can be obtained in a few weeks of relaxed farming :P
Sharkinu
A sin with LDoA? NO!
Mintha Syl
Are you serious? Really, I yhought playing the game involved you playing it.
/not signed
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Arduin
I read the suggestion as:
-character A has Legendary Survivor
-buy the title tome in the shop for 10$
-use the title tome on character B
-character B now has Legendary Survivor
-character A loses Legendary Survivor
So there is no buying of titles. You still need to get the title on one of your characters. Correct me if I'm wrong, OP.
-character A has Legendary Survivor
-buy the title tome in the shop for 10$
-use the title tome on character B
-character B now has Legendary Survivor
-character A loses Legendary Survivor
So there is no buying of titles. You still need to get the title on one of your characters. Correct me if I'm wrong, OP.
Gill Halendt
Some sort of a "Star of Transference" for titles?
Tenebrae
/notsignedlikehell . Ppl should stop making threads with suggestion only based on "i want my cookie faster" .... inb4close.
Cuilan
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easy to say something that easy is hard if you don't want to put forth the effort to farm
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Del
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There isn't any or that much effort to farming. It's all about enduring boredom.
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Aldric
/not signed.
What a really really terrible suggestion. If you want a title on a character then go do it.
What a really really terrible suggestion. If you want a title on a character then go do it.
Kosar The Cruel
I know I'm quite the lazy player but, even this has never crossed my mind. Most titles aren't that hard to get. Some just require a bit more time or money.
/notsigned
/notsigned
Gabriel of Ravn
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I read the suggestion as:
-character A has Legendary Survivor -buy the title tome in the shop for 10$ -use the title tome on character B -character B now has Legendary Survivor -character A loses Legendary Survivor So there is no buying of titles. You still need to get the title on one of your characters. Correct me if I'm wrong, OP. |
As OP said these would be mutually exclusive titles only but even so those are usually the easiest to get compared to most account titles.
/notsigned again
Deviant Angel
Enduring boredom? I don't know about the rest of you, but I can't say that any game feels fresh and exciting after I've played the hell out of it for several years. Even the games that get regular content updates start to feel stale after a while. People need to learn how to pack up and move onto something else when games are no longer a source of entertainment.
Anet has already done their part to make some of the titles easier. The market is flooded with cheap alcohol, sweets, and party stuff thanks to Nicholas and special events. The Kurzick/Luxon titles may take a little time, but they are a lot easier than they used to be. Some of you need to suck it up and accept that you have to work for some of the things you want.
I understand that LDoA takes a very long time and survivor wasn't a possibility for most pre-Factions characters, but I don't think we need the ability to transfer these titles to other characters for the sake of making GWAMM easier. Many of us were capable of hitting 30 without either of those titles.
I'm going with a big fat /unsigned on this one!
Anet has already done their part to make some of the titles easier. The market is flooded with cheap alcohol, sweets, and party stuff thanks to Nicholas and special events. The Kurzick/Luxon titles may take a little time, but they are a lot easier than they used to be. Some of you need to suck it up and accept that you have to work for some of the things you want.
I understand that LDoA takes a very long time and survivor wasn't a possibility for most pre-Factions characters, but I don't think we need the ability to transfer these titles to other characters for the sake of making GWAMM easier. Many of us were capable of hitting 30 without either of those titles.
I'm going with a big fat /unsigned on this one!
rick1027
im going with /unsigned
although i would have gwamm with this suggestion i have thirty or more different titles finished across my account. this would gwamm too easy for me. i sit at 20 titles on one char and three other with enough different titles to bring that char to gwamm it just wouldnt feel like an accomplishment to me getting gwamm this way. i choose how to spread out my titles amongst my characters so i feel i really havent earned gwamm in my heart. when i do eventually get gwamm with one or more of my characters i want to feel that accomplishment in my heart
although i would have gwamm with this suggestion i have thirty or more different titles finished across my account. this would gwamm too easy for me. i sit at 20 titles on one char and three other with enough different titles to bring that char to gwamm it just wouldnt feel like an accomplishment to me getting gwamm this way. i choose how to spread out my titles amongst my characters so i feel i really havent earned gwamm in my heart. when i do eventually get gwamm with one or more of my characters i want to feel that accomplishment in my heart
Drake Slasher
/notsigned
titles used to be something u would get for achieving something in game on a given char,transfering accomplishments from char A to char B just doesn't make sense. They already changed wisdom,treasure to account wide, come on ppl, paying to make a title acc wide is almost like buying ectos for real money..
titles used to be something u would get for achieving something in game on a given char,transfering accomplishments from char A to char B just doesn't make sense. They already changed wisdom,treasure to account wide, come on ppl, paying to make a title acc wide is almost like buying ectos for real money..
MagmaRed
/unsigned
It would allow me to get GWAMM on ALL my characters instantly. All this would do is make ALL titles account based. There was a reason they didn't do that. Treasure Hunter and Lucky/Unlucky were changed to be account based because people complained about it. But people also complained about Drunk, Sweet, and Party, as well as a few others.
It would allow me to get GWAMM on ALL my characters instantly. All this would do is make ALL titles account based. There was a reason they didn't do that. Treasure Hunter and Lucky/Unlucky were changed to be account based because people complained about it. But people also complained about Drunk, Sweet, and Party, as well as a few others.
Ghost Dog
Did you just recommend a micro transaction?
Do us a favor and go back to making batshit insane ideas for your real hobbies because you certainly are no gamer.
Do us a favor and go back to making batshit insane ideas for your real hobbies because you certainly are no gamer.
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Did you just recommend a micro transaction?
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Neith
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Sweet, drunkard, and party animal bought by anyone nty they aren't that difficult to get.
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Oh...and to the OP....ummm...NO just NO...no word describes it better then...NO
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tonini
of all the dumb things to do with your money you would rather spend real life money than spend ingame gold i think you should quit before your addicted oh no wait lol
and this is just another easy way out made by players who dont want to play
Doubt it if anet cares whether u get gods or not. Also not everyone is meant to have gods they already made it easy enough when they added party and zaishen
spending rl $$ to save ingame money WTF?? /notsigned
and this is just another easy way out made by players who dont want to play
Doubt it if anet cares whether u get gods or not. Also not everyone is meant to have gods they already made it easy enough when they added party and zaishen
spending rl $$ to save ingame money WTF?? /notsigned
Ghost Dog
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micro-transactions are nowhere near as bad as monthly fees. and that doesn't even slightly have anything to do with why this idea is so stupid.
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Charging to the point that I would rather pay a monthly fee and have 5 star support rather than meaningless micro costumes funding some crap like WIK.
Monthly fee = premium support.
Micro transactions = attempts to project profit without the ability to invest.
HawkofStorms
Agreed. Microtransactions are slippery slopes, way worse then P2P. At least P2P is predictable. Microtransactions can throw shit at you at any time and change your "well I can afford this" to "you want how much?" at the drop of a hat. With P2P you know what you are getting into. Microtransactions can cause you to fall behind if you don't pay up at any time.
For example, DLCs. Companies used to just release new content/maps. Now, 15 bucks for 4 multiplayer shooter maps.
Want to play Madden 11 online? Well, you are going to have to have a $10 online pass to use a feature that has always been included in games for free.
How about those DLCs that some people pay for that are actually just unlocks for content that is ALREADY ON THE FREAKIN DISK YOU BOUGHT! That's right. You don't "download" anything in this downloadable content. Instead, you pay the company money, and they give you access to something that was already included in the product you purchased.
Once you start having to spend 30-40 dollars per game to unlock "content" that older generations of games would have included in the original purchasing price, I start telling certain game developers to go to hell.
For example, DLCs. Companies used to just release new content/maps. Now, 15 bucks for 4 multiplayer shooter maps.
Want to play Madden 11 online? Well, you are going to have to have a $10 online pass to use a feature that has always been included in games for free.
How about those DLCs that some people pay for that are actually just unlocks for content that is ALREADY ON THE FREAKIN DISK YOU BOUGHT! That's right. You don't "download" anything in this downloadable content. Instead, you pay the company money, and they give you access to something that was already included in the product you purchased.
Once you start having to spend 30-40 dollars per game to unlock "content" that older generations of games would have included in the original purchasing price, I start telling certain game developers to go to hell.