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cantalus · Aug 31, 2011, 10:22 AM // 10:22

don't mind if hats bought in the anet store are slightly different from the original ones, say a different colour/color

and yeah, left the first pumpkin hat in the troll cave outside droks, probably cause of something that was worth 90ish gp.....

TsunamiZ · Aug 31, 2011, 01:39 PM // 13:39

signed...................

Chocolate_Prayers · Aug 31, 2011, 04:06 PM // 16:06

Hats, Hats, Hats... GuildFortress 2 anyone?

Wonder if Valve wants in for a slice of the action.

That being said, I'm indifferent towards previous holiday headwear being added to the NCSoft In-Game store for a Reasonable price...

Thorfinnr · Aug 31, 2011, 05:24 PM // 17:24

I see both sides of this.

When GWs first came out, I had no connection to the Internet as I lived outside the city limits and had no service. SO I missed out on the first 2 years of Hats for Halloween and Christmas.

Would love to be able to get them, but I also understand its kind of a status thing where someone can say "I was there."

If they became available in the store, say for like $1 each, I would probably go for that. In a pack, might force me to pay for something I already have, which isn't cool.

Perhaps some mini mission could be developed for the respective holidays, available only during those holiday events, that allows you to get to a "Legendary Hat-Maker" who could make you a past one, for a substantial in-game fee(say like 10K per hat, nothing too outrageous cause then no one will want to waste that kind of in-game bank.)

Maria The Princess · Aug 31, 2011, 09:56 PM // 21:56

signed and not signed....

the only people that should be able to get those hats are the ones whos accounts were created BEFORE the event of the said hat.

Lithril Ashwalker · Aug 31, 2011, 10:14 PM // 22:14

imo and i do believe good one, if ur accoutns old as the hat u MISSED u can get it. if not...too bad so sad.

/signed if can get hats as old as your account
/unsigned because itll never happen because Anet never looks at guru anymore

davehall · Aug 31, 2011, 10:24 PM // 22:24

/signed.

I want furry ears for all the characters on all my multiple accounts.

Lucy Saxon · Aug 31, 2011, 10:29 PM // 22:29

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Originally Posted by Maria The Princess

signed and not signed....

the only people that should be able to get those hats are the ones whos accounts were created BEFORE the event of the said hat.

This would work for me.

Ayuhmii Shanbwa · Sep 01, 2011, 12:07 AM // 00:07

oh my, sure alot of people have hate for others to get a hat now just cuz they werent there, kinda discriminating newer people

Anet should know that they should make people happier in these times
giving them away would do best to those who dont have em (yet), and does nothing bad to those who got em back then

imo its real sad that people dont like others to have something nice, thats called hate toward others... and selfishness

i hope anet does think about all people, like they did lately
i'd like to get that dragon mask i couldnt get back then cuz i didnt have the money to buy factions yet

or do you people think i dont deserve it only cuz i didnt have the money yet?
i'm not rich, i'm kinda poor money-wise

should they do it your way, people surely will have less faith in anet in the future
should they do it the right way, by giving all older hats away to anyone, people will get happier and will have faith in anet in the future

ps. dont forget there are many people who would be like: buying GW2 from a company who doesnt care about newer people like that? no thx, i rather try other MMO's

anet's decision will make their future, whether its in GW or GW2

Maria The Princess · Sep 01, 2011, 02:45 AM // 02:45

the hats are the only way of showing how long have you been playing, and add no *real* advantage to the game, so you cant really say Anet doesn't "care".

if anything, they dont care for the older players who didnt have hat NPC ot the additional storage tabs you can buy (they added it with GWEN right?) and lost many many many old hats due to shortage of inv space or deleted characters because of lack of character slots (before you could buy them, when there was only 4 slots and thats it).

The newer players didnt have to deal with that. If they allowed you to acquire hats as old as your account it would be only fair to the old players who lost them or missed the event for some reason. It would be more of a concept of "recovering" what was yours rather then acquisition of something new

Black Metal · Sep 01, 2011, 03:26 AM // 03:26

this has been brought up before...........

anyways, the Devs have said they WILL NOT put them in the stores (and for good reason), so it's pointless to have this conversation

edit: lol this was the same thread, it just got necro'd

I see my first post was deleted, but was quoted, and seeing from the quote it was a pretty short and normal answer, not sure why it was deleted........

*lemming* · Sep 01, 2011, 10:44 AM // 10:44

http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=4400

Blizzard's concession to people who can't make it is to make the period longer than one day.

Hanok Odbrook · Sep 01, 2011, 05:03 PM // 17:03

Also Anet has said:
Would not allow for unlocking of all skills without playing through PvE
Would not change the favor system (when based on region winning HoH)
Would sell BMP separately in the store
Would not allow full Hero parties
among a dozen or more other things they said they would not or could not do for one reason or another, yet ended up doing anyway.

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Originally Posted by Maria The Princess

the hats are the only way of showing how long have you been playing, and add no *real* advantage to the game, so you cant really say Anet doesn't "care".

/age plus screen shot

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Originally Posted by Gill Halendt

Anyway, they could simply make the events last longer (or, at least, the finale for the hats), so people can get their hats and stop opening thread like this.

Which Anet has already done with one of the Factions festivals. There are also several other instances where they re-ran festivals after the official date, and also one I recall that allowed the ability to get the Wintersday hats after the fact one year - as proven by my Factions only account characters acquiring those particular hats. The precedents are there - it's just a matter of whether epeen is more important.

Hanok

Mpidemie · Sep 01, 2011, 05:11 PM // 17:11

/notsigned

No chance to get the hats after the events makes them special.

MithranArkanere · Sep 01, 2011, 07:24 PM // 19:24

I don't mind allowing other players to get the hats they couldn't.

But I think they should make some kind of survey first in-game or in the official site, to check how many people would actually mind.

There are plenty of reasons people could ahve missed a hat, from not having Internet connection yet, to accidents of all sorts, or having to study abroad in without your computer.

Ramei Arashi · Sep 01, 2011, 09:44 PM // 21:44

You guys who've been around for 6 years, didn't show your hats to festival hat maker when it came out?

Maria The Princess · Sep 01, 2011, 10:52 PM // 22:52

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Originally Posted by Hanok Odbrook

/age plus screen shot

Hanok

thats really out of context, if i want to show someone hours i played etc yes id send them that maybe. but its completely out of the context for this thread in particular

MithranArkanere · Sep 01, 2011, 11:11 PM // 23:11

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Originally Posted by Ramei Arashi

You guys who've been around for 6 years, didn't show your hats to festival hat maker when it came out?

The hat maker was added on December 6, 2007.
For several reasons, not all of them their fault, people that actually got the hats and was there could have missed it.

There's also some cases of hats that you can get without actually being there, in the cases when there was a redux or when they add a collector after the party, so people that wasn't in the festival at all can get the hat by buying the tokens with in-game cash.

If you could get hats without being in the festival, and you could be in the and not have the hat, then the hats no longer really show which festivals you have been in.

Many things in the store are for vanity. As long as it is not free, I think most people should be fine with it.

Those that did get the hats will still keep that. They got them for free.
It's like with the Bonus Mission Pack. Some got it for free, other had to pay.

Swingline · Sep 02, 2011, 03:15 PM // 15:15

signed to make hats available again.

not signed to sell them in the store.

I missed the mummy mask and a few others during mid 2008 to mid 2010 but I really couldn't care for those. I was however there for the early ones and dumped them because I needed space desperately. There should have been a festival hat maker since day 1 and I shouldn't have to pay for Anet's blunder.

GODh · Sep 02, 2011, 04:26 PM // 16:26

/signed...

i had all hat but lost some bec i was struggling with lots of chars and only the 1 pane storage we had in the early days (hatmaker didnt exist either). I really would like to have some of those hats back.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Ramei Arashi

You guys who've been around for 6 years, didn't show your hats to festival hat maker when it came out?

That npc came MUCH later in the game (and storage was only 1 pane), so that was not possible... the hats were not transferable either (to to your other chars on same account).

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Swingline

There should have been a festival hat maker since day 1 and I shouldn't have to pay for Anet's blunder.

I fully agree on this...