Early 3 yr mini release

@ekelon
I'm sure we'd see a lot more for sale if it were ALL beta's that got them.

In your haste to troll this thread, and poorly I might add, you missed the entire point. ZoS aren't meant to have 'perks'. It's just a guild. Getting items early isn't meant to happen. Which is why this thread started. Gtfo, seriously.

no no no i wasn't saying that they have it because they are devs. im saying the guy that got it, got it because he probably knows someone that is or just has connections. and if his connection was someone that worked with the company then yeah there you go. i hope its a bit more clear.

They didn't get the minipets early because of account age. Gaile has said before that everyone's account age was reset, and that they all started from the same date. So he couldn't have had an older account.

a)some beta testers have /gasp stopped playing the game?
b) some beta testers /gasp like the minis enough to not sell them?

rotflmmfao.

you're serious right? please. just stop. you're making my sides hurt.

Ya, non of us in this thread were beta testers, none at all.

Just leave now, you have no idea what you are talking about.

Sure Anet could give them a certain pet if they chose to. Rare minipets were handed out during the Mini Mania contest. The same method used to reward those contest winners could likely be used to hand out gifts to selected players(without the need for an open and fair contest).

you basically summed up what I wanted to say in my previous posts. sure it seems a bit unfair, but they're anet and they can hand it out of they want have a goodnight everyone.

That doesn't really make sense unless they got a headstart or something. We didn't beta test the game 2-3 days before it came out.

Anyone that preordered had a "beta" account. For the beta weekends, I can't remember, but did that include a headstart like a couple other preorders have? I didn't buy the game until a month after it came out, but I preordered it and participated in most of the beta weekends. And my account says 35 months exactly like it should.

Are you sure about this? I've always recieved my minipets a day early because I had preordered beta before GW was released. Well, I remember the first pet being early anyway. When did this reset occur?

Keeping this on-topic would be much appreciated. I'm pretty interested in hearing the reasoning behind the whole early minipet deal from a ZoS member or Anet dev.

Okay, on subject since this should not be a personal flame war thread.

No I agree with Dome. It is not fair that some ZoS members got their presents a bit early. Sure they may not sell them till others get it, and it may have no affect at all. But this is just another show of ANet bending the rules like they did during the last MAT's since Andrew Patrick was in [rawr] to help with the Rawr Cup. It happens, it's not a big deal BUT it is not fair and should not be allowed. ANet should know better.

agree with DE. Whatever your take on this issue is, it warrants an explanation. I want to know if Anet condones early 3rd bday pets, and other exclusive income sources that are off-limits to us common folk. If they don't condone it, I would like to know how it happened.

I kind of skimmed through the topic, but here's a thought; what if they didn't get their minipets early though foul play, but it was just simply a fault in the GW system?

I don't know how the years are counted, but I got my current Guild Wars account (and thusly started my oldest character) on April 20th 2006. So it would follow that I would get my two year mini on April 20th, right? Well, imagine my surprise when I logged in as that character on April 18th this past weekend and discovered a two year B-day present in my characters inventory.

It might not be the devs playing favoritism, but just the GW computer system miscounting 1,096 days, counting this past February's leap day of course.

It's not a huge deal, but it was still clearly the wrong thing to do, and a-net should have known better.

I don't care, if some special beta testers created their characters before the official early access was opened and who now get their minis a day before everybody else. It's a little unfortunate, that they are allowed to sell them. (Are they?)

What i think is frightening... the spider seller wears FoW armor + chaos gloves + dread mask.
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...01&postcount=1

Please Anet, for GW2 get some other beta testers, who don't think that grind is good.

If this is the case then fine, but it would be nice if ANet would come in and explain themselves. Until then, all this is speculation. But that could be it as well, the GW system could miscount the days, it's a possibility. But some ANet confirmation would be nice.

even if the age system is/isn't fouled up, doesn't it still make sense that out of all of us, devs should have the oldest characters? right?

and yes, I know that wasabi isn't a dev. that is what i'm getting at.

/edit
I wonder if he's daring enough to post an pic with /age, un-Photoshopped.

Arena Net has ALWAYS favored employee based guilds.

The Spearmen were favored due to Linsey Murdock -> http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:Linsey_Murdock

Zos is lead by Andrew Patrock, one of Jeff Strain's best friends, of course he is going to get special treatment.