Curse

The Great Al · Apr 26, 2007, 04:12 AM // 04:12

Meh, as someone said...a gift's a gift. It's certainly not mandatory that they give us something, but it's just odd that they are knowingly giving us something that no one really wants. Maybe the people on this board are the minority, and the noobs that hang out in shing jea all day speak for the GW community as a whole. Because that's sure what it seems like. I'll accept the gift, if it's not super cool, customized, and the demand is high, I'll sell it, and pretend that my 2nd birthday gift is a few plat, instead. Too bad I didn't get the game til a few weeks after it came out, so the price will go down

Ultra Mega · Apr 26, 2007, 04:13 AM // 04:13

It is a gift but not received by us but by our characters. Our characters never paid anything for the mini pet it is a gift to them for being 1 year old.
Also the whole logic behind the idea of a birthday present is that it is a gift for each year of existance.

I'm finding it really bizzare how some people are going to great lengths to try and prove that this is not a gift. Does it really matter? If you are unhappy about this gift then fine state your opinion but whether it is a gift or not is really irrelevant.

Anyway I'm happy with the mini pet birthday present, I'm not a big collector but enjoy the surprise in which one I will get. Thanks Anet

Miral · Apr 26, 2007, 06:07 AM // 06:07

so.... arena-net. you did save the receipt, right?

Darksun · Apr 26, 2007, 06:23 AM // 06:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by IlikeGW

for 5 people, while the rest of us get some plant monster crap. can we at least have the ability to kill our own minis and other peoples (and they auto resurrect?) I want to kick them around.

LOL plant monster crap!! sorry, but that was hilarious..

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rolune

Well if you guys Reeeeally want to get technical.

semantics
verbiage
/semantics

With that I leave you.

Yeah, ok. then i guess what you said is worthless too, since it's "electrons"

Anyways. I'm excited that ANET made a cool even for the 2nd year. I'm excited that they give use birthday presents. I was excited to hear that the 2nd year's presents were going to be even better. I guess I'm kinda confused and bummed that we are getting more minipets. I don't think of it as "I deserve a better present" I'm just disappointed that they couldn't/didn't implement something more unique for 2nd year characters. With every pole I saw minis were closer to the bottom than the top, seems odd that they would go with them. I'm guessing it's not worth the time, they have a TON of work to do for GW:EN & GW2.

I still think there is something about the minis they aren't telling us. Something they do or whatever... dunno.

Roshi_ikkyu · Apr 26, 2007, 06:26 AM // 06:26

Hmm well in that case, I'm gonna open the High end item sales thread now, second year B'day present 100k + ecto

Scarlett Romanov · Apr 26, 2007, 06:38 AM // 06:38

Boardwalk = mleh
Beetle Racing = I love it. That is, when I don't lag.

Can't wait. ^_~

Taala · Apr 26, 2007, 07:57 AM // 07:57

I'm just glad that the presents aren't customized. I have a habit of deleting and remaking my characters, so I don't think anyone of them has reached even six months of age. Currently my main character is three days old!

Back when my account reached one year of age, I bought my main character an unopened present and I've been happy with the Charr Shaman I got ever since. It'll be many months until my account is two years old, but when it happens, I'll be buying one of those unopened presents again.

semantic · Apr 26, 2007, 08:05 AM // 08:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rhedd

This and the other birthday gift thread are full of the biggest bunch of ungrateful jackasses I've ever seen.

Boy am I happy this whole subject will be dying soon.

If I were Santa, there'd be a LOT of people getting coal for Christmas...

They'd find smallpox in their stockings if it were up to me, but I'm exceptionally fair-minded.

aaje vhanli · Apr 26, 2007, 08:13 AM // 08:13

Thank you, aNet, for your time and consideration.

fin.

savage vapor 33 · Apr 26, 2007, 08:24 AM // 08:24

After opening the frontpage of guildwars.com I am almost positive that a Blue Djinn is going to be the minipet. Just my 2 cents. :P

Andisa Kalorn · Apr 26, 2007, 08:51 AM // 08:51

I wish I had known when I had deleted my oldest character that I was throwing away two 100k + ecto birthday presents... *sigh*

I feel sorry for the one year old canthan characters though, getting the worthless old minis.

I'm still looking forward to the new minis. I'll buy them when they're dirt cheap

Surena · Apr 26, 2007, 08:53 AM // 08:53

There should be a present which uninstalls your existing installation and bans you for life if you happen to be one of these spoilt infantile complainers. I think that would be a cool addition to the minipets.

"Hey look, I got a cyoute cyoute mini-gwen"

"Wtf man lolz, me got a present too, phuck d'em Ahh-Net azzholz and deir minis"

retard has left the game

Corinthian · Apr 26, 2007, 09:06 AM // 09:06

Oh, hell. No more minipets. Sheesh. It's like getting a car for your birthday but it's completely the wrong color.

sweat man · Apr 26, 2007, 09:07 AM // 09:07

this will be my first event, asides from halloween 05, which i didnt take part in. im looking forward to it

Matt_Night · Apr 26, 2007, 09:39 AM // 09:39

so many nice, original ideas given on forums and here we go with more minis.

...and the worst part is that i wont be getting mine in time to make any reasonable money on it :P

Nexus Icon · Apr 26, 2007, 10:10 AM // 10:10

The thing is, as I said before, Gaile led us to believe last year that the second birthday present would be something different. I'm sure if you went through the Game & Dev Tracker forum, you'd be able to find the exact quote. But if you can find an effective way to search GWG posts from a year ago, more power to you.

I don't want this point to be forgotten amidst all the people telling us that we should be happy with what we get.

Saphatorael · Apr 26, 2007, 10:23 AM // 10:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Corinthian

Oh, hell. No more minipets. Sheesh. It's like getting a car for your birthday but it's completely the wrong color.

More like, getting a second car when you got one last year and never even drove around with that one.

Was hoping for some disguises that can be toggled (like the Everlasting Beetle Tonic), but meh... better than nothing, I suppose.

Gli · Apr 26, 2007, 11:52 AM // 11:52

I've an old aunt who's been giving me a ties for my birthdays for years. They're nice ties, and even though I don't wear ties, I still love her.

The moral of this story? No idea, but at least minipets are easier to sell than ties.

Hysteria · Apr 26, 2007, 01:04 PM // 13:04

One of the things that always had a personal touch with Guild Wars for me is that it shares the same birthday as myself, April 28th. It just adds a little bit more to the day for me and with the cakes and presents this year, it should add a nice special touch to the day

Oh, and to add irony to it, Nightfall shares my wifes b-day, October 27th but she's not a gamer so she could care less.

SotiCoto · Apr 26, 2007, 01:55 PM // 13:55

YAY! AFK WEEKEND!

I just hope the tickets I accumulated LAST board-walk weekend are still valid.... or else I will have wasted a whole shedload of money (I bought 100k of them).... Token Storage Stan finally gets a bit of his inventory freed up! ...

And with any luck, maybe I'll be able to get my Unlucky title to rank 3 ... [and possibly get the first rank of Lucky, since it actually has a purpose now... ¬_¬]...

O'course we'd need about 10 of these weekends for me to max my Unlucky title track.... annoyingly enough. v_v; .... We just don't get enough oppurtunities any more.