Gem Store Black Friday Sale

[hlindegar]

quoted from ANet:

The Black Lion Trading Company is celebrating the biggest shopping day of the year with a Black Friday sale of their own.
This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, be sure to check out the Gem Store for limited-time discounts on some of your favorite items. Each day three different items will be discounted up to 70% off! But don’t wait, because each sale only lasts 24 hours.
You’ll have to log into the game and open the Gem Store (default key is “O”) to find out exactly which items are on sale each day. Happy shopping!

I love that, in the midst of people getting all upset over the recent changes and saying they're not buying from the gem store, ANet goes and makes a sale. Genius. Of course I will fall for it. I can't wait to see what's in store.

[robinsiebler]

So far, all I have purchased has been all of the bank expansions, several char slots and a slew of dye packs and chest keys. Nothing else appeals to me in the slightest.

[hlindegar]

So far, all I have purchased has been all of the bank expansions, several char slots and a slew of dye packs and chest keys. Nothing else appeals to me in the slightest.

What if bank tabs or character expansions go on sale?

[robinsiebler]

I already have all of the bank expansions and I am quite happy to buy char slots as I need them.

[Izzy]

This is pretty exciting actually, and I'm not one to usually get excited over Black Friday. One of the only holidays where innocents get trampled in shopping malls, but online it's not so bad. I look forward to expanding my bank slots, I always manage to fill mine up.

[Cariad]

That is of course if the bank extensions go on sale. I hope they do.

[Bell]

What I don't really understand is that they make a sale now. I mean their latest update with the implementation of the new gear tier was probably due to too little profit (why else would they risk causing such a row?). But with everything on the gemshop being utterly useless rubbish(character slots and bank slots excluded), why would anybody purchase gems in the first place.

I mean, I'm definitely not buying one of their dumb keys for those stupid boxes that don't even guarantee me something, but only hand out useless crap.
There are too little fancy clothes in the store. These are things people would probably want to spend money on, not dye packs, when it's easier to just buy the ones you really want off the TP, and also not the useless boosters. Unless they go P2W, and sell legendaries on the TP, the only way to get people spending money there is creating more desirable skins (I mean there are currently three, if I'm correct; one for each armour-type).
Also what's with all the town clothes they are handing out? Aviator glasses? seriously? Or that stupid baseball cap they were handing out as a gift at the beginning. Why are all of these things so inappropriate OOC stuff. Why not include more costumes that would actually fit the lore. There's plenty of npcs running around in fancy outfits, I guess lots of people would be interested in acquiring.

tl;dr: If they're making too little profit, why don't they just put something in their store that people would actually want to buy?

[Xovian]

@bell

Some people will actually buy the gems for gold (it's legal) though the rate is less then stellar.
Other things people may have bought gems for is for the times they need to buy a few of the consumables, repair canister actually comes to mind for shard runs. I'm not disagreeing by any means, there's a lot of "junk", but Anet's stance was not for the gem shop to become a pay to win. So i can understand why a lot of desired items cant be found there.

I wholeheartedly agree the biggest potential money maker the gem store could have has been largely wasted with the lack of armor skins being sold. The light armor is just down right depressing as a choice IMO. If they were releasing new skins every couple of weeks (once a month), players would be buying them, whether by buying the gems or trading for them. Be nice to see more styles and options in the game, would definitely help with diversity of looks on characters.

Hopefully they'll wise up and start releasing new skins and releasing them often.

[Vayne]

Most companies don't make a zillion skins on release, and create them gradually. And I do think plenty of people are spending money in the cash shop for stuff like character slots and bank upgrades if nothing else. And if you don't think that people are spending money on chests, where did all those skins people were selling come from in the auction house. Some people have a lot of disposable cash.

The costume brawl costumes sold, because I saw them everywhere.

But yes, Anet will certainly come out with more costumes over time.

As for why make a sale now? Because they're a retailers now, and it's the beginning of the Christmas season and people are off for three days...why NOT make a sale now?

Why must everything be a conspiracy theory? lol

[Celtic Lady]

It'd be nice if some of the costumes would be 70% off. I'd like to pick up the pirate set cheap. lol