GW Needs Collectible Items

DaRhino

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Somewhere deep inside the Earth

Ua Gods [UG]

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26 Jun 2005 at 20:47 - 1
In my dark days of playing Runescape (shame shame ), the item groups in the game were as follows...

Weapons-Self Explanatory

Armour-Self Explanatory

Ingredients/Materials-Self Explanatory

and..
Collectible Items- Items that had no real purpose, but were kinda cool to have, like a status symbol.


I think Guild Wars needs some of these things. Maybe this would be considered fluff, but I think it is a well needed money drain for the game. And it's fun to collect stuff anyways . What do you guys think? Dumb idea? Cool idea? Hopefully the latter .

pinebranch

pinebranch

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2005

UK

The Awesome Soup Alliance

R/E

26 Jun 2005 at 21:06 - 2
I thought that was the whole idea behind 15K armour. Statistic-wise, it's no different from the stuff you can get from Droknar's Forge, but it looks cool and provides a money sink for the economy.

Advocate Of Hell

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

Deaths Will

R/E

26 Jun 2005 at 21:14 - 3
Ya, there should be a jewlry spot, so i can make my African American warrior look just like Mr.T. Come on!

DaRhino

Frost Gate Guardian

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26 Jun 2005 at 22:41 - 4
Yes, but if you played Runescape, you would know exactly what I'm talking about. Money sinks everywhere. Very hard to save up money in that game. I think that it should be the same way here also.

shadow ranger

shadow ranger

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E/

26 Jun 2005 at 22:55 - 5
Rs has gold sinks because of skills.., and the "collectables" horribly inflated, thats why the 50 santas i bought at 5m are around 150 now..

I suppose some collectables would be nice, and the fact there a max amount of cash on gw would limit how much they could inflate to but id rather anet prioritised more practical armour and weapons just to make some veriaty.

Evan montegarde

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

26 Jun 2005 at 23:05 - 6
Heh, I still have around 800k in my Runescape character. Plus a santa hat and green mask or something, it took a while to earn all of it but it was a pretty fun game.

DaRhino

Frost Gate Guardian

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26 Jun 2005 at 23:18 - 7
About 2 weeks ago I dropped all my Rune armour in Lumbridge... All the newbs went INSANE. Funny thing is, my Rune plate never got found, it just disappeared on the ground, no one even saw it

theclam

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

26 Jun 2005 at 23:29 - 8
No. Why would you want the devs to spend time making items that don't have any effect?

ManadartheHealer

ManadartheHealer

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Awaiting GW2

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26 Jun 2005 at 23:30 - 9
Quote:
Originally Posted by theclam
No. Why would you want the devs to spend time making items that don't have any effect?
It would have an economic effect

DaRhino

Frost Gate Guardian

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26 Jun 2005 at 23:41 - 10
Precisely Manadar... otherwise, why would they have created ale already?

DarrenJasper

DarrenJasper

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

27 Jun 2005 at 00:40 - 11
As long as nothing forces me to run around collecting stupid little widgets, I don't care if they put it in for other people.

johnnylange

johnnylange

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

USA/Near Chicago

The Divine Darkness <TDDG>

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27 Jun 2005 at 00:56 - 12
If they ever include guild houses in the game some time later on, this might become a pretty popular idea.

hazardous

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Israel, Haifa

Crew

Mo/

27 Jun 2005 at 05:26 - 13
There IS 1 special item, that you cant find anywhre in the game except Pre-Sear area, its not godly or smthn, just has DIFFRENT LOOKS then anything else ^_^

my friend got a sword like that, i got an axe.

ign : hazardous slayer if u want to see/buy/havesex.

Azure Kingdom

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2005

27 Jun 2005 at 05:29 - 14
I like the idea of collectibles but without a place to display them, who would want them? It seems most people only pay for stuff like this that has no purpose to display so everyone can see how leet they are.

DaRhino

Frost Gate Guardian

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27 Jun 2005 at 05:42 - 15
I guess I didn't explain enough. Some of the collectibles (probably most) would be cool hats/other physical things that you could parade around and say "Hey ch00bz look at meh über 1337ness." Of course that was exaggerated, but that's kinda how it works. Plus it would help the economy a bit I believe.

Sir Maddox

Sir Maddox

Frost Gate Guardian

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Me/E

27 Jun 2005 at 10:04 - 16
Quote:
Originally Posted by DaRhino
Yes, but if you played Runescape, you would know exactly what I'm talking about. Money sinks everywhere. Very hard to save up money in that game. I think that it should be the same way here also.
But this isn't Runescape.

Aaaaagh

Aaaaagh

Wilds Pathfinder

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27 Jun 2005 at 10:59 - 17
Quote:
Originally Posted by Advocate Of Hell
Ya, there should be a jewlry spot, so i can make my African American warrior look just like Mr.T. Come on!
Political correctness at its worst! Hehe, what if it was an African European! Or African Canadian! Just say black, black is fine, no one thinks black is a bad term. If white is alright, so is black!

chaos dragoon

chaos dragoon

Krytan Explorer

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The Warrior Nation[WN]

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05 Jul 2005 at 01:15 - 18
i used to play runescape.quit for gw after being scammed 525k.not the first time though.i dont want another phat going up 1 mil in price every week.50-60 mil for a blue phat!that is just dumb.and all the rude ppl every other sentence in varrock wolrd 2 is noob or some kind of scam.i dont want a phat type item that only the uber rich can afford.im not sure if you were playing when they nerfed the maul and whip but they suck now.

chaos dragoon

chaos dragoon

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05 Jul 2005 at 01:17 - 19
and it is super hard to save money in rs.i dont want guild wars to be like that.

Devts-Waver

Devts-Waver

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Forgotten Legends

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05 Jul 2005 at 01:39 - 20
I like the idea. I remember in Ragnarok Online, I loved saving up enough money to buy a crown to where when I enter towns and stuff. I think they should add expensive accessories to decorate your character with.

DaRhino

Frost Gate Guardian

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Ua Gods [UG]

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08 Jul 2005 at 18:56 - 21
That's exactly what I'm talking about.

Armada Hunter

Armada Hunter

Academy Page

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08 Jul 2005 at 19:15 - 22
My turn!. If this were implimented, you could put your collectables in your house on wall hooks or something!. Yay

DaRhino

Frost Gate Guardian

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09 Jul 2005 at 02:45 - 23
That you could.

Arctic Strike

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

Champions of Nissi

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09 Jul 2005 at 02:52 - 24
I feel that any extra stuff (not calling it crap out of respect ) would just take away from the game play and make the game more about getting stuff instead of trying to hack, slash, burn, fry, freeze, smash, confuse, stupify, exhuast, and kill as many things as you can all while trying to avoid the previously mentioned items. IMHO, I'd say keep those items out of GW because the 'extra stuff' is what ruined many games thus the reason why I stopped playing them. Games aren't about the stuff you get, it's about having fun. A never-ending quest for 'stuff' is not fun for me.