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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:00 PM // 16:00   #141
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yeah what a load of crap in my opinion
LAME LAME VERY LAME!
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:00 PM // 16:00   #142
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LOL, I don't thinks it's really a "fail" for them. It was a successful promotion. They thought they would have enough to cover all their readers, and in the process gained thousands of new subscribers to their magazine who wanted the minipet. Very successful promotion for a small magazine.
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:01 PM // 16:01   #143
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Are you a dedicated reader of gamerzine or mmozine? Cos thats who they were for really. And yet most of these have gone to people who want to sell them on rather than collect them.
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:02 PM // 16:02   #144
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LOL, I don't thinks it's really a "fail" for them. It was a successful promotion. They thought they would have enough to cover all their readers, and in the process gained thousands of new subscribers to their magazine who wanted the minipet. Very successful promotion for a small magazine.
What about those bitter people who hate them for not having enough pets and for not anticipating a server crash?
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:02 PM // 16:02   #145
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well it's not going to get me to read it unless I get my minipet
it says on their page a free gw mini pet to every reader
so I read it and I still don't have it
I want my damn minipet for giving them my email to spam
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:03 PM // 16:03   #146
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Well, regardless, the fact is you can't read the magazine now cause the server crashed.

I guess some could see that as a sign of success... I see it as a failure to anticipate the massive hits after announcing a free mini to potentially 4 million people!

(I'm sure the direct link on the european Guild Wars site didn't help)

http://eu.guildwars.com/
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:03 PM // 16:03   #147
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This makes me really angry some stupid selfish so and so's have got about 30 of these mini's because they've registered loads of times.
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:04 PM // 16:04   #148
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They say that the minis are for the first 40k subscriber, that it is not assured to get one. On the other hand, it is very difficult to be a dedicated reader of MMzine, since this was it's first issue
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:05 PM // 16:05   #149
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I really should have woke up earlier today
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:05 PM // 16:05   #150
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They say that the minis are for the first 40k subscriber, that it is not assured to get one. On the other hand, it is very difficult to be a dedicated reader of MMzine, since this was it's first issue
haha true
but I downloaded the zine and I read it, it was good but I still don't have a minipet
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:07 PM // 16:07   #151
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Got the site to pull up, but it overlaid over its self x2 I could not read a thing and no graphic pictures came up (refresh and got the internet explorer error)
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:07 PM // 16:07   #152
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This makes me really angry some stupid selfish so and so's have got about 30 of these mini's because they've registered loads of times.
Yeah that's where I assume that many of them went. It's free and all you have to do is register an account? Sounds pretty easy to me....
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:08 PM // 16:08   #153
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I don't mean to laugh but thousands of new people now know the name of this magazine. Those that signed up for the minipet will now get a new ezine in their mailbox. Yes they can unsubscribe but even if only 10% of those people continue their subscriptions and browse through it, it was a smashing success for a small ezine. As I was discussing in IRC, stores/magazines/games don't run promotions believing that every single person will sign up or subscribe. But if you can gain just a few hundred new readers or consumers then that promotion did it's job. I know we all want to believe that this promotion was for the Guild Wars players, but it was for the magazine and to gain more exposure for it's name and the name of ArenaNet.
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:08 PM // 16:08   #154
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I think that they will be limited to one per game account, same as Asura.
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:10 PM // 16:10   #155
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LOL, I don't thinks it's really a "fail" for them. It was a successful promotion. They thought they would have enough to cover all their readers, and in the process gained thousands of new subscribers to their magazine who wanted the minipet. Very successful promotion for a small magazine.
One: It seems they didn't cover their own readership very well. It looks like most of them went to a few opportunistic people who harvested all the keys in a few short minutes to corner the market. The small number of people selling multiples in-game reinforces that impression. Like bigo93 says:
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Are you a dedicated reader of gamerzine or mmozine? Cos thats who they were for really. And yet most of these have gone to people who want to sell them on rather than collect them.
Two: They've gained thousands of new subscribers who are going to cancel without ever reading their zine. Like Onarik says,
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What about those bitter people who hate them for not having enough pets and for not anticipating a server crash?
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well it's not going to get me to read it unless I get my minipet
it says on their page a free gw mini pet to every reader
so I read it and I still don't have it
I want my damn minipet for giving them my email to spam
No one who subscribed and then didn't get the mini is going to have any positive feelings about them whatsoever. And most of the few who did get the mini are going to unsubscribe anyway.

Yeah, so... massive fail IMO.
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:11 PM // 16:11   #156
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I think that they will be limited to one per game account, same as Asura.
But what would be stopping me from applying for a code on each of my email accounts?
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:14 PM // 16:14   #157
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But what would be stopping me from applying for a code on each of my email accounts?
Or would it stop you from applying for a code on a large number of e-mail accounts that don't even exist in order to drive up the rarity and price of the mini?
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:15 PM // 16:15   #158
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Inde has the brightest thought so far, yea, people should look at this "madness" mini pet promotion, and realize what's will happen to this little company,i say this magazine has succed, GJ!
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By the way... I just get my code for the mini! They seem to be more pets!
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Old Oct 17, 2007, 04:16 PM // 16:16   #160
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well unless I get my minipet im going to unsubscribe from them
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