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Enko · May 23, 2007, 04:12 PM // 16:12

if they're released here too, it will drive the price down since they'll be more common. got no problem with that.

Hyper Cutter · May 23, 2007, 05:55 PM // 17:55

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Originally Posted by lightblade

actually...you DO get rare minis, like gray giant and asura. Asia countries dont get those.

The gray giant and asura aren't rare, and certainly not to the degree those asian minis are. Also, neither of those was America-specific btw...

Feme Assassin · May 23, 2007, 06:11 PM // 18:11

why is everyone crazy with those minipets i personally hate em they were good when they first come with the 1st bd but i rly got bored with them i sold my aatxe and i blame anet that they put again stupid minis instead from something else

Operative 14 · May 23, 2007, 06:41 PM // 18:41

I agree with this. Though I'm American, I would say it's fair to distribute Ultra Rare miniatures to other regions, like the US or European Servers. Asian players get to have only.. what was it 100 Pandas? Perhaps the US districts can get 100 ultra rare Grizzly bears (or something) and the European districts can get 100... Can't think of a major animal!

Perhaps a bunny or something(sorry).

As far as I know, Guild Wars has never done an ultra rare give away specifically to either the US or Euro servers; perhaps it's time they do so.

Mr. G · May 23, 2007, 07:30 PM // 19:30

i belive that anet said that we will have our chance to get these "soon" (2-7 years)

And why only america?

MithranArkanere · May 23, 2007, 10:26 PM // 22:26

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Originally Posted by Operative 14

I agree with this. Though I'm American, I would say it's fair to distribute Ultra Rare miniatures to other regions, like the US or European Servers. Asian players get to have only.. what was it 100 Pandas? Perhaps the US districts can get 100 ultra rare Grizzly bears (or something) and the European districts can get 100... Can't think of a major animal!

Perhaps a bunny or something(sorry).

As far as I know, Guild Wars has never done an ultra rare give away specifically to either the US or Euro servers; perhaps it's time they do so.

Ahem... can you say, for example... Lynx? THere is one in the game... ¬¬

I'll save you all that 'you americans are not the belly button of the world' blah, blah, blah.

All those miniatures were given in events and such...
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Miniature

But it's true that only Taiwan and Japan is just not fair.
There should be a Spanish-only miniature... a Glint miniature should be fine... only one... in the entire game.... ever... for me only and alone. Yes, that would be perfect.

Operative 14 · May 24, 2007, 08:19 AM // 08:19

The Following is a list copy/pasted directly from Guild Wiki; please note if you see any sort of favoritism towards various regions

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Kanaxai Green
Guild Wars Championship in Japan #1 team (up to 8 members)
Taiwan region Nightfall title contest prizes (6 were given)
Taiwan region friend introduction event prizes (12 were given)

Panda
Gold Guild Wars Championship in Japan top 2 teams (up to 8 members each)
Taiwan region, 1~49th signup to help newbies during first two weeks of Nightfall retail (49 were given)
Taiwan region Nightfall title contest prizes (61 were given)
Taiwan region GW 1st anniversary wallpaper contest prizes (10 total)

Island Guardian
Gold Guild Wars Championship in Japan top 3 teams (up to 8 members each)
Taiwan region, 50~99th signup to help newbies during first two weeks of Nightfall retail (50 were given)
Taiwan region Nightfall title contest prizes (61 were given)

Longhair Yeti
Purple Japanese netcafe promotion (500 were given through lucky draw) Official page
Taiwan region Nightfall preview event GM game winning prizes (250 were given)
Taiwan region Nightfall title contest prizes (61 were given)
Taiwan GW offical blog lucky draw (10 prizes)

Naga Raincaller
Purple Japanese netcafe promotion (500 were given through lucky draw)
Taiwan region Nightfall preview event GM game winning prizes (250 were given)
Taiwan region Nightfall title contest prizes (61 were given)
Taiwan GW offical blog lucky draw (10 prizes)

Oni Purple
Japanese netcafe promotion (500 were given through lucky draw)
Taiwan region Nightfall title contest prizes (61 were given)
Taiwan GW offical blog lucky draw (10 prizes)

Miniature Gray Giant
Gold North America: PC Gamer, US edition, November 2006 issue
Europe: Magazines list @ GW Europe

Miniature Asura
Gold North America: PC Gamer, US edition, May 2007 issue
World-wide media partner list showing regional publications, and their shelf dates
Europe: Magazines list @ GW Europe and CD-Action (04/07)
Taiwan GW official lucky draw (total 20 prizes in various entries)

Vizu Green
Japan netcafe promotion lucky draw (20 prizes): [1]
Taiwan GW official blog lucky draw (9 prizes): [2]

Zhed Shadowhoof
Gold Japan netcafe promotion lucky draw (40 prizes)
Taiwan GW official blog lucky draw (10 prizes)

Shiro'ken Assassin
Gold Japan netcafe promotion lucky draw (40 prizes)
Taiwan GW official blog lucky draw (10 prizes)

The Asura and the Gray Giant are the only ones that were released directly to North America and Europe. And even then, their rarity was offset by the fact that they were available to purchase from magazines by litterally millions of people, and probably bought in the hundreds of thousands worldwide. Certainly not a level of uniqueness that can be attributed to any number of Asian mini's.

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Ahem... can you say, for example... Lynx? THere is one in the game... ¬¬

I've never seen a picture or reference to one, I didn't know they existed!

must be so cute. Could you link me to a page with information about it by chance? And I REALLY don't get the belly button comment.

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And why only [A]merica?

Certainly Agree with that, all the regions should be able to have special promotions.

MithranArkanere · May 24, 2007, 12:54 PM // 12:54

http://images.google.com/images?q=european+lynx
Endangered species.
I think they should remove the ingame lynx or rename it too...

Yang Whirlwind · May 24, 2007, 02:57 PM // 14:57

Just wondering - do you guys want those to be free for all (maybe with a magazine) or just for lucky people attending a certain promotion event and highly skilled people winning championships?

I wouldn't go to the events, i don't buy gaming magazines and i don't play anything but PvE,- so personally i really couldn't care less!

And i might add that though we poor Danish people eventually got a chance to buy the game magazines with the Gray Giant and the Asura, it wasn't until the prices on those pets had dropped to less than 20K. Hardly worth buying a (rather expensive) magazine for that amount of GW cash.

Its pretty important to me that GW sells well so Anet have money to throw at the continuous development of the game,- and if thats all it takes to get all of Asia "hooked" i say: lay on them with the mini's!

Operative 14 · May 25, 2007, 08:33 AM // 08:33

Ah, okay sorry MithranArkanere, I thought you meant there was an Ingame Lynx minipet already, my mistake

And yeah, I didn't buy an Asura code. I had an interest in it when I could have sold it for 70k+, but I have yet to see a single PCgamer of that edition here. And really, I agree with you, I couldn't care less about these kinds of mini's.

just it seems a little unfair that the rest of us don't get an opprotunity for unique miniatures, albeit however small it might be, unless we have several billion platinum stashed somewhere.