Ladybug.3052

I'm genuinely curious about ArenaNet's perspective on this as well. I of course have my own: There are roleplayers active in the community today who have been around since the early days of Guild Wars 1. As you've said, we care about the lore and the storytelling; we invest in many different aspects of the game; and many of us do tend to spend an embarrassing amount of RL money at the gemstore. Like you, I don't know how many of us there are in-game who fit this description. However, it seems to me that there are enough to matter, and that ArenaNet only stands to gain by considering this community's wishes. For example, a-net, if you loaded up the gemstore with items like NPC common clothing armor sets (so we can mix and match!) and swimsuits, and additional communal seating (like campfires!), I think you guys would see big returns on that investment. A lot of us are just struggling to make our characters look like normal people in the game, and would probably fork over the $ to do that. I do think a-net cares about the RP community. From adding toggle walk and usable chairs, to conducting lore interviews, they have shown up for us. I just also think (wink wink, a-net) that there are additional things they could integrate for fairly minimal effort, that their RP base would be excited about and would pay money for. (And if they wanted to put in less minimal effort and give us player housing, they could totally load up the gemstore with furniture and make bank, just saying.)