Granger wrote:You can make the server render character portraits, so you should be able to make it render an HTML snippet with links to the images and the item descriptions. Doesn't need to be linked to the store with a 'buy again' button, does it?
In theory, but there's also a question of timing. The game server has a good time where it can, on its own initiative, export avatar descriptions of characters that the website can handle if and when they exist, whereas for this to be useful, it would need to be instantly updated on a successful purchase. As such, it would require a much more tighter integration between the website and game server, which I'm not sure is something that I want. Not to mention it would be in trouble anyway if a purchase is made during game server downtime.
If I were to fix it, my preferred fix would rather be to have a tighter coupling between store product descriptions and in-game items, so that the game server doesn't have to be involved in the process.