UPDATE March, 2, 2013: Still not fixed and got "sanction" threat in private message from French moderators on forum for asking about the bug in the support section (funny because I never insulted any time, it seems they want to delete any angry customer message regarding this issue). I have only one thing to say: TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SUPPORT. After investing more than $200+ in the gem store, and years of content in Guild Wars 1, I can't believe they are treating me like this. All we want is ANET to communicate and tell us when our purchases will display again, we just need ANET to tell us something, even if the planned patch is in 3 months from now...being ignored and sanctionned is not the way ANET should deal with these things IMHO

NEW EDIT: So I learned why this bug is happening. Head gear for town clothing does not display anymore because they removed the ability to hide helmet (which is a good move since anyway, town clothing parts do not need to be turned on/off individually! We should just equip/unequip the parts we want since town clothing doesn't have "stats" contrary to regular gear anyway) but they completely forgot that some people had turned head gear off before this (for example, some people didn't want to display the pirate hat from their pirate costume), which means affected customers are now unable to see head pieces they purchase / purchased. Which is even worst IMHO... this is really silly. How could a developer think like "hey, we're going to remove the ability to hide helmet" without thinking one second about the people who currently have it set to "hidden", of course they will be unable to "turn it on" thus won't be able to see their cosmetic purchases after such update! It's not like A-net are amateurs or something, c'mon... Also, it doesn't take much time to fix. They just have to update their database for all users (TownClothingHeadSlotDisplay=1 or whatever it is called) to force every people to have their gear 'on' again. This kind of things doesn't take 2 weeks to fix...

EDIT: because of the first replies below I must insist on the fact that it's impossible to turn on/off head gear display (see my screenshot below) and recognized as a general bug affecting many players by the ANET moderator (see other screenshot below)

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I paid for cosmetic head gear but it won't display. It's been 2 weeks now.

Same problem with EVERY town clothing I own (pirate hat etc.). Town clothing head gear don't display anymore since before the update that introduced the "riding broom".

French community manager said ANET recognized this bug is affecting many players, they'll fix it but don't know when:

Why we are feeling left out...3 days ago they patched the game and even added new items to the Gem Store but still didn't fix anything. I paid for an item that won't display, and 15 days after, still no news / no update.

Invisible "Bunny Ears" - how awesome is that:

Ignorance makes up for many mistakes.

I'd post images from all my town clothing with all headgear working, but I can't be bothered...

Originally posted by Volkon
Uncheck the "Hide helmet" and get back to us.

FUNNY GUY...this option disappeared

Originally posted by Jean-Luc_Picard
Ignorance makes up for many mistakes.

Who are you talking to?

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By the way, if you look your character sheet, on the town clothing page, you will see the "missing" hat in the right slot, still there, still existing.

Your head gear is still here. It's only visual and will be fixed. Nobody stole anything.

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It's frustrating ain't it.

I'm more concerned with them herding everyone to the gem store to gear. Buy gems to get gold effectively.if you're a new player beware you'll get ample drops until you hit that level 80. Then you might either join the Arenanetlotteryclub or the permaDR club. Most likely it will be the permaDR club where you will have things like boss chests not appearing in dungeons or in meta events, you'll have a large enough collection of porous bones from 30 minutes of doing an event in Orr to make your own Conan Skull Thrown, but earning gold? might as well hang it up. What's sad is you can take screenshots and videos of what happens to you and they know it's real they still don't do anything about it. It's been 4 months now since whatever happened to the loot is still happening, what do we see? they tell us it's an Xfiles conspiracy despite the evidence to the contrary. This is the stingiest game I've ever played.

He payed for something and is not working as intented. 

I like GW2 and Anet, but how can people defend that? Anet should not sell something that is clearly bugged and either come with a solution very fast or reinburst the player who have the problem. Just like with items in real life. If they do not work as intented then you supposed to get a replacement or your money back. I don't think we should allow companies to do less in a virtual store when you pay with real money. 

Originally posted by strangepower

Sorry you feel so entitled to share your personal problems while bashing a whole company in the title of your post.

Illogical and emo at the very least; kids these days.

I removed ANET from the topic title, is it better? Sorry, didn't mean to hurt

Originally posted by Coman

He payed for something and is not working as intented. 

 

I like GW2 and Anet, but how can people defend that? Anet should not sell something that is clearly bugged and either come with a solution very fast or reinburst the player who have the problem. Just like with items in real life. If they do not work as intented then you supposed to get a replacement or your money back. I don't think we should allow companies to do less in a virtual store when you pay with real money. 

Well put, they should offer a refund until they resolve the problem as a matter of course.

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Anyways, I'd contact support about it like customer support and get in contact that what you payed for isn't working. They worry a lot more about money issues so its more likely to get it solved/refunded quicker if you contact them in that way over traditional support tickets.

It was a known issue with Rangers at least 1.5 weeks ago. A.Net was the one who said NOT to buy because it won't show properly not a player (that was on Reddit and their official forums).  That is all it is. It is not a big deal, yet you went out of your way to make one. I don't get it.....

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Don't worry about it, people on the GW2 forum here are less than stellar and think it's the second coming. Just move on, you've made it known about a game breaking glitch for some people. Others won't care. Just depends on the player.

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It's only an item they isn't even missing but is just not displayed for now, as a known bug. It doesn't stop you from playing the game with 100% efficiency, therefore it's definitely not game breaking.

Game breaking would be something like all armor values reduced to zero, or being unable to log in, or doing only half the damage intended for your level, or stuff like that. But a missing cosmetic hat that isn't even missing but just not displaying for the moment.[mod edit]

Originally posted by botrytis

It was a known issue with Rangers at least 1.5 weeks ago. A.Net was the one who said NOT to buy because it won't show properly not a player (that was on Reddit and their official forums).  That is all it is. It is not a big deal, yet you went out of your way to make one. I don't get it.....

It's actually a bigger deal to me then. So they know this and still have it in there store? That just dumb, they either have a crappy system that make it's hard to remove items from the store or they kept something in the store they tell poeple not to buy in the hopes someone actually does? 

Most poeple do not read Reddit and there official forums. They know that better then anyone else. So why keep the item? It's only stresses you CS even more with complains and you get unhappy consumers. I am not saying they are stealing from the consumers, but seems like a odd move to me.

Originally posted by Coman

It's actually a bigger deal to me then. So they know this and still have it in there store?

They have it in the store because the item exists and is just not displayed! The bug is visual. How many time does one have to repeat it?

Originally posted by Jean-Luc_Picard

Originally posted by Coman

It's actually a bigger deal to me then. So they know this and still have it in there store?

They have it in the store because the item exists and is just not displayed! The bug is visual. How many time does one have to repeat it?

Indeed it visual. Is the whole point of fluff not to be visual? I mean that's really the only function of the whole thing and it DOES NOT do that. How often does one need to repeat that.

Originally posted by Jean-Luc_Picard

Originally posted by Coman

It's actually a bigger deal to me then. So they know this and still have it in there store?

They have it in the store because the item exists and is just not displayed! The bug is visual. How many time does one have to repeat it?

Are town clothes there just for display value?

Originally posted by Coman

Originally posted by botrytis

It was a known issue with Rangers at least 1.5 weeks ago. A.Net was the one who said NOT to buy because it won't show properly not a player (that was on Reddit and their official forums).  That is all it is. It is not a big deal, yet you went out of your way to make one. I don't get it.....

It's actually a bigger deal to me then. So they know this and still have it in there store? That just dumb, they either have a crappy system that make it's hard to remove items from the store or they kept something in the store they tell poeple not to buy in the hopes someone actually does? 

Most poeple do not read Reddit and there official forums. They know that better then anyone else. So why keep the item? It's only stresses you CS even more with complains and you get unhappy consumers. I am not saying they are stealing from the consumers, but seems like a odd move to me.

One of the things many of us pointed out to the devs about how they talk to people, they finally listened when it comes to patch notes (yeah imagine getting patches and not seeing a single thing in their own official forums about it)

But everything else? Forget it. They are not only posting to Reddit they are posting to Wiki of all things! It's so weird. Whoever is managing over there needs to go back to college and learn what organization means because they have their heads up their butts clearly.

Originally posted by Coman

Originally posted by Jean-Luc_Picard

Originally posted by Coman

It's actually a bigger deal to me then. So they know this and still have it in there store?

They have it in the store because the item exists and is just not displayed! The bug is visual. How many time does one have to repeat it?

Indeed it visual. Is the whole point of fluff not to you know have it visual? I mean that's really the only function of the whole thing and it DOES NOT do that. How often does one need to repeat that.

It displays the rest of the outfit just fine, just not the head piece. And the head piece will be back in a soon to come patch.

I really don't want to see your reaction about a really "game breaking" bug.