Bags should be account wide..

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Just wasted a cool 30 bucks getting all bag slots on a character i dont play thinking they would be account wide.

[yivya]

1) Agreed, it's annoying it not being account wide.
2) This mistake is on you though. Let me quote two descriptions:

"Add an extra Bagslot to a character's inventory [...]"
"Increase the number of active crafting disciplines all chracters on your account can have [...]"

Gw2 is descriptive in telling you if it's for one character or all.

[Gaming Granpa]

It's also worth adding that some of the expansion packs they offer specifically add some ability to trade between characters using the same account. There is supposed to be a "shared inventory slot" in each of the expansions according the Areanet's website. I think I used it a long time ago, but at my age I don't remember it well. (I played on the main website back in 2018 or so.)

[Rhapsody]

Keep an eye out for shared inventory slots and copper-fed salvage-o-matic on the store.

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Not a fan of that as well, I suggest try get a refund or make that character your main.

[Nibbie]

While I agree, and would probably max out my bag slots instantly if that change was made, I assume they make enough money from the die-hards who buy bag slots for all their characters that they aren't too concerned about it. Making such a change now would also be messy for all the people who bought slots on multiple characters. The choice could feasibly be for technical reasons too, like they want to keep inventory space down a bit since they have to keep track of it across the entire game, and if it was the other way bag and character slots would increase the amount to keep track of multiplicatively, but that's just speculation.

[RotherHans]

Bag slots, Bank inventory and character slots have benn pretty much the main money makers of this for almost a decade.
So no, not gona happen.

[mysaga]

While I would like it to be account wide, I understand why it isn't.
Right now each purchase adfs a fixed number of posdible inventory slots, most likely 20 (max size craftable bag). If it was account wide, that amount would multiply with your character slots (5 character slots - > 100 inventory slots; 9 chatcter slots - > 180 inventory slots), and also increase per additional character slot. This means you would get more value the more you already have spent and they would have to adjust prices for that.

It is pretty much the same with everything else that would take up space in the database per character: Buildand gear templates. (Not saying that storage space is that expensive though)

[cheese sandvich]

Agreed too. I don't have much else to add to this, other than I agree.

[AuldWolf]

Yep. This is another area of frustration for new players. Whereas so many other MMOs (even WoW at this point, which is crazy!) are focusing on reducing the absurd levels of grind by making things account-wide, ArenaNet is insisting on nickel & diming. But that isn't going to win over new players when there are other options out there. ANet is acting like they have a monopoly and they really, really, really don't.

The new player experience in GW2 is the worst right now of all of the big MMOs, that's because all of the others have worked at really reinvigorating the new player experience whereas ArenaNet has barely even touched it and continues to be hostile about it.

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Originally posted by mysaga:

While I would like it to be account wide, I understand why it isn't.
Right now each purchase adfs a fixed number of posdible inventory slots, most likely 20 (max size craftable bag). If it was account wide, that amount would multiply with your character slots (5 character slots - > 100 inventory slots; 9 chatcter slots - > 180 inventory slots), and also increase per additional character slot. This means you would get more value the more you already have spent and they would have to adjust prices for that.

It is pretty much the same with everything else that would take up space in the database per character: Buildand gear templates. (Not saying that storage space is that expensive though)

+1 I just wish they put a huge reminder that it's not account wide when buying extra bag slots, extra build template, and extra eq template.