Why is Asia so special?

I was researching minipets on Wiki and was appalled at what I saw!

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Miniature

Why are there so many region specific minis for Asian regions? Where's the love? Since America and Europe are the biggest GW consumers, and the gold farmers over there are helping ruin the game, one would think that region specific minipets would be available to us. Is there something I'm missing here? Has anyone from Arenanet explained why some customers are more special than others?

Notice, most of them say, "Preview Event." Taiwan, China, etc, didnt get to acquire the other minipets, that America, Europe, etc received. So that's why they got their own special minipets.

I'm pretty sure thats the reason :P

I dun't think that this has to do with "Asia being special"...
I think that this is more related to Marketing than anything else...
Kinda like giving a bonus for those people playing in asia and making them buy the asian version for the minis when a lot of them prolly already has the Eu/US version...

me want panda

Mostly because it is a huge, active and highly competitive market, so there will just be a much higher frequency of specific things like mini-pets and preview events.

You can get an asura what more do you want?

Any marketing campaign will always favour Asia.
Close to 7 billion people as possible customers would be a major drawcard to any marketer. If you want to make tons of cash of your product you have to break into the Asian market.

A panda.....

I guess were Negatives then.

How do you figure 7 billion people when only around 6 billion people exist in this world?

DOES NOT COMPUTE

Asia hold just over 3 billion, I believe.
All I remember is it holds more than half the world's population.
But that was from highschool many years ago. Many!

its simple guys...a few billion people have been hiding from us all this time

4/5 of the people who play mmos/online games are from asia

Highschool?!
We have been teached that in 4th grade of n00b school!
But anyway here is some of the info:

Asia: about 4 bilions
Africa: about 900 000 milions
Europe: about 700 000 milions
South and central America: 550 000 milions
North America: about 360 000 milions
Oceania: about 35 milions

Numbers says it all. There are more people at Asia than at whole rest of the world but here is the problem:
Asia is not as rich as Europe and America. A lot of people can't afford to buy the game. But hey A-net knows better, right?

http://removegwminipets.com

I hate them.. Please, NO MORE MINIPETS!

not true. even though europe/america are richer then asia. There are more gamers in Asia then in America/Europe. Heck, just take Japan and Korea for example. 95% of the population in both of these countries are gamers.(Its part of their culture.) And when u say not as rich...that doesnt necessarily mean that people there are poor. There are only a few poor countries in Asia. And rich countries doesnt necessarily = to more gamers. Take Norway for example, the country that is ranked no.1 in standard of living but how many gamers are there in Norway? Also, when in comes to p2p mmos, there are definitely more asian gamers compared to european/american gamers. Why? because they can afford it and are brought up in that gaming culture.

All in all....u can also say that asians are more serious about games then europeans/americans which is why theres even such a thing as the WCG.

GW had crappy sales in Asia, so they keep adding incentives. Why people must continue debating this topic is beyond me. Gaile has even said all the "Asian" minipets will be added to Europe/America at some point in time.

They most probably have a very good well thought out reason.

Oh noes teh azns hav sumthin we dnt!!!! -_-

Kinda sad really. Maybe everyone should cry about all the people who got rich / obtained uber rare items at start of GW as clearly new comers to GW are being treated unfairly...

The more customers Anet can bring to Guild Wars the better.

I wish there is a South East Asia server.So I can play interupt mesmer a bit easier.

It's not ALL Asia.
Israel got NOTHING =[
if you make it Asia make it ALL asia at least... :\