Guild Wars 2

Anet was willing to give away 5000 free accounts just for submitting a video of yourself taking the GW2 oath.
Why didn’t you people submit a video to get a free account for a friend, family member or even for yourself as a storage?

It may be they just uploaded 118 videos to the playlist since it now says there are 5,000 winners.

Along with the 5,000 contest winners who received free copies of the Guild Wars 2 Heroic Edition, new citizens are flocking to Tyria from all over! Join the movement!

http://migration.guildwars2.com/en/

Fernling.1729:

Anet was willing to give away 5000 free accounts just for submitting a video of yourself taking the GW2 oath.
Why didn’t you people submit a video to get a free account for a friend, family member or even for yourself as a storage?

Did people expect them to get 5,000? I don’t think anyone did. They are lucky to get as much as 118. ANet probably over estimated the interest in this campaign. It was basically asking people to embarrass themselves publicly. Kudos to the people that did it though.

There were 5,000 winners so there must have been at least that many entries.

Karizee.8076:

There were 5,000 winners so there must have been at least that many entries.

Huh? That was just the default message because they probably expected 5,000. You can do a quick Youtube search to see how many videos there are. This isn’t a private competition per the rules it is public.

By submitting a Video, participant hereby grants permission for the Video to be posted on Sponsors’ YouTube Channel, website and social media pages and to otherwise be used as set forth below.

Xcom.1926:

Karizee.8076:

There were 5,000 winners so there must have been at least that many entries.

Huh? That was just the default message because they probably expected 5,000. You can do a quick Youtube search to see how many videos there are. This isn’t a private competition per the rules it is public.

By submitting a Video, participant hereby grants permission for the Video to be posted on Sponsors’ YouTube Channel, website and social media pages and to otherwise be used as set forth below.

100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. How would you find them if they didn’t title them GW2?

Karizee.8076:

There were 5,000 winners so there must have been at least that many entries.

I tried searching youtube for several variations of GW2 oath(migration/oath/etc) and didn’t see anything other than the 118 videos and a sims guy.
I think they already had the page written and decided to just go with it.
What’s the chances of 97%+ of the uploaded videos not to have anything about gw2 migration or oath in it?

Karizee.8076:

Xcom.1926:

Karizee.8076:

There were 5,000 winners so there must have been at least that many entries.

Huh? That was just the default message because they probably expected 5,000. You can do a quick Youtube search to see how many videos there are. This isn’t a private competition per the rules it is public.

By submitting a Video, participant hereby grants permission for the Video to be posted on Sponsors’ YouTube Channel, website and social media pages and to otherwise be used as set forth below.

100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. How would you find them if they didn’t title them GW2?

lol

Every single video on the playlist has “GW2” “Guild Wars 2” “Oath” or a combination of those words. So you are saying the rest of the 4,800 videos didn’t have those words. And since they didn’t Arenanet didn’t upload them on their webpage? Is that you argument?

Fernling.1729:

Karizee.8076:

There were 5,000 winners so there must have been at least that many entries.

I tried searching youtube for several variations of GW2 oath(migration/oath/etc) and didn’t see anything other than the 118 videos and a sims guy.
I think they already had the page written and decided to just go with it.
What’s the chances of 97%+ of the uploaded videos not to have anything about gw2 migration or oath in it?

The way the contest works is that you have to submit a link of your video to Arenanet, and as long as it is within the rules (30 secs and in a public place) they put you on the playlist.

From the playlist they will pick the winners from panel of judges. But since there was less videos than expected, I am guessing all 118 will win. I am sure a few more videos will trickle in.

Fernling.1729:

Anet was willing to give away 5000 free accounts just for submitting a video of yourself taking the GW2 oath.
Why didn’t you people submit a video to get a free account for a friend, family member or even for yourself as a storage?

Because I’ve already paid for family accounts (beta), already have a 2nd account and have stopped recommending this game to friends.

Fernling.1729:

Anet was willing to give away 5000 free accounts just for submitting a video of yourself taking the GW2 oath.
Why didn’t you people submit a video to get a free account for a friend, family member or even for yourself as a storage?

Because for many people, it’s not worth publicly embarrassing yourself for the equivalent of $30 (the current sale price).

Lord Kuru.3685:

Fernling.1729:

Anet was willing to give away 5000 free accounts just for submitting a video of yourself taking the GW2 oath.
Why didn’t you people submit a video to get a free account for a friend, family member or even for yourself as a storage?

Because for many people, it’s not worth publicly embarrassing yourself for the equivalent of $30 (the current sale price).

Exactly, which is why it was bad marketing.

All my gamer friends tried GW2, and left it months ago. The last holdout was in July, I think. I don’t know anyone else who might want a copy, and if I did, I wouldn’t be able to recommend the game in good conscience, even for free.

Also, given how frequently and overwhelmingly critical I’ve been of their current production strategy, I really doubt I’d win, even if there weren’t enough entries to use all 5,000 prizes (which I am certain was actually the case, regardless of what their marketing people say).

And finally, if I put up a video of myself pledging allegiance to Tyria or whatever, I’d probably wind up getting added to an NSA watchlist and having my phone tapped.

Why would they add 5000 videos to a playlist, when 99% of them wont be watched? Making a playlist of 118 videos is 117 more then I was expecting.

118 seems like a perfectly normal number to upload out of 5000+ video’s right? I mean lets not go 50 or 100, we need a nice normal number like 118 when there’s over 5000 entries….

/sarcasm

Not seeing my submission.

Wethospu.6437:

Not seeing my submission.

Haha, that’s because you didn’t read the rules! :P

This is yours, right?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rIFen1IyTg8

I didn’t enter because:
a) It was silly
b) What would I do with a second acc?

My friends play WoW, they only like the exploration from GW2, but they will never enter on this for a free account.

People are not posting videos because the promotion gives the impression that Guild Wars 2 will be a free to play game soon. And people don’t want be dishonest for $40. Not everyone thinks like Guild Wars 2 developers.

What is the point of this? They seem to be marketing to people who already have the game…to make a stupid video…to get a second copy of the game? I’m not sure how these “migration” videos will reach or convince anyone who does not already own Gw2. If the contest rewarded gems, rather than a second account, they may have seen more participation.

I made a really really stupid video and they won’t even consider it.

Just for the record. Is the contest already over then?

Anyway, they where warned about it in this topic: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/The-Great-MMO-Migration/page/5#post3292096

At least this may show them that it might be wise to listen more often to the feedback in stead of closing the topic.

My friend participated in the contest and he haven’t yet receibed anything at all. I can guarantee that the 118 videos are the whole number of participants, taking on account my friend uploaded his video on December 2nd at late night (pacific time) and yet the video was added to the playlist some hours later. My friend followed the rules exactly as they said(he didn’t use copyrighted music, not even from gw2, didn’t swear at all, didn’t mention other games explicitely and recorded on a public place with people passing by) yet he didn’t receive any confirmation that he received the prize or anything from arenanet. His video is this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8dp-OFaPXk&index=68&list=PLDCvogxNKN3lJwvEM41S9nifT0fCtH2U4

*Yes, he’s spanish.

Because a copy of GW2 isn’t worth the amount of time to make the video in all honesty. It has nothing to do with anything other than time invested vs reward. Now if they gave exclusive skins in game or something, sure. But a copy of a game I already have is worth nothing.

Celtus.8456:

What is the point of this? They seem to be marketing to people who already have the game…to make a stupid video…to get a second copy of the game? I’m not sure how these “migration” videos will reach or convince anyone who does not already own Gw2. If the contest rewarded gems, rather than a second account, they may have seen more participation.

If you give a free copy to a friend before Christmas, he might buy tons of gems.

Does anyone know if the accounts have already been awarded? I got my girlfriend and 2 other friends to enter, but they received no email with an account. (They are on the youtube playlist).
The accounts were going to be given to 5000 people so if they made a decent vídeo and only 118 vídeos were uploaded they would probably win an account? I say this because they were going to tell the winners on december 10 and I think that they might have not won.

Guarzog Zogger.5763:

Does anyone know if the accounts have already been awarded? I got my girlfriend and 2 other friends to enter, but they received no email with an account. (They are on the youtube playlist).
The accounts were going to be given to 5000 people so if they made a decent vídeo and only 118 vídeos were uploaded they would probably win an account? I say this because they were going to tell the winners on december 10 and I think that they might have not won.

The same has happened to my friend. Read my last reply. I think they’re having trouble with the new accounts.

Because I’m not getting paid for advertising their product.

The people who want the game will just buy it, it’s really not that expensive, making a video where you embarrass yourself really isn’t worth it.

XantyLeonhart.1328:

The same has happened to my friend. Read my last reply. I think they’re having trouble with the new accounts.

I’m spanish aswell, so is my girlfriend! My two other friends aren’t but yes, they havent received anyting and I hope ArenaNet havent forgotten and its just that thay are taking longer than the 10th of December.

Guild Wars 2 is like the hot chick with the smoking body, who is sort of an idiot and maybe crazy… but she wants you to propose and to meet your parents.

The answer is NO! Booty calls only.

“The Migration Campaign Playlist is a selection of entries from the video contest”

A selection, not all of them. ;x

Doggie.3184:

“The Migration Campaign Playlist is a selection of entries from the video contest”

A selection, not all of them. ;x

I can guarantee you it IS all of them. Just take a look at it…
A lot of the entries just directly break the rules, making fun of games like WoW and mentioning them explicitely (which was against the rules), recording in the backyard or in an empty place (the rules said it had to be a concurrent public place). Yet they are all in the list. My firend’s video was uploaded and submitted on Dec 2nd at night and yet still, it was added to the list a few hours later.

The only videos that weren’t added, were the submisions that ABSURDLY broke the rules: (recording yourself on your bed inside your room, posting a random picture and having a synthetic voice say the oath e.t.c)

P.S:
THIS:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Tdc0sIUcM&list=PLDCvogxNKN3lJwvEM41S9nifT0fCtH2U4

Is one of the videos that were added to that so-called “selection” lol

EDIT: LOL!!! Some of the videos are duplicated! Did they do it to make a filler?? XD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MSKaRscy2g&list=PLDCvogxNKN3lJwvEM41S9nifT0fCtH2U4&index=1

Fernling.1729:

Why didn’t you people submit a video to get a free account for a friend, family member or even for yourself as a storage?

Because I refuse to be a puppet of marketing.

Because it wasn’t available in my country…

Guarzog Zogger.5763:

Does anyone know if the accounts have already been awarded? I got my girlfriend and 2 other friends to enter, but they received no email with an account. (They are on the youtube playlist).
The accounts were going to be given to 5000 people so if they made a decent vídeo and only 118 vídeos were uploaded they would probably win an account? I say this because they were going to tell the winners on december 10 and I think that they might have not won.

Guarzog Zogger.5763:

XantyLeonhart.1328:

The same has happened to my friend. Read my last reply. I think they’re having trouble with the new accounts.

I’m spanish aswell, so is my girlfriend! My two other friends aren’t but yes, they havent received anyting and I hope ArenaNet havent forgotten and its just that thay are taking longer than the 10th of December.

I opened a post in the spanish general forum, and they answered today, me and my friend havejust received the mails. You should check your mail again to see if you have received it as well. If not, I would suggest you to open a thread for everyone and posting the mail accounts they used for the contest there, explaining their case.(that’s what worked for me at least)

EDIT: I’ve already told them about your case though

ArenaNet’s compilation video of their favorites:

Want to see more vids from the Battery Chicken!

People post every day embarrassing videos of themselves so I don’t see why this would be a problem, or even a discussion. Gratz to all the people.
You can spend those 30-50$ get wasted and someone else record that video for you :P it happens on a daily basis anyway

oh that’s easy. I have NO intention of pleading an oath to this game. ArenaNet is not worthy of my loyality

Chaotic Storm.2815:

oh that’s easy. I have NO intention of pleading an oath to this game. ArenaNet is not worthy of my loyality

And why can’t you do that? Sure I’m singing sweet tunes of joy cause I got a free account, but even with that what’s wrong in submitting a video of Oath? They aren’t asking for a signed copy sent to their mail or something.

AernaNet isn’t, okay. Which Game hosting company is? Besides, it only got 200+ submissions cause of it’s lack of advertisement. I came to know about this event cause I regularly visit these forums, was planning to buy it sooner or later at this year’s end. Instead just invested all my monicoinz in LoL skins cause of the mixed reviews I read everywhere on the net.

Nabuko Darayon.9645:

People post every day embarrassing videos of themselves so I don’t see why this would be a problem, or even a discussion. Gratz to all the people.
You can spend those 30-50$ get wasted and someone else record that video for you :P it happens on a daily basis anyway

“People” and “those who are interested in GW2” are a vast population difference. There are tons of “people” so of course you see tons of videos where people embarrass themselves.

In any case… even defenders of this video are taking the view that making such a video is embarrassing — that’s not a good thing.

Because the whole thing was silly. Not like “ha ha” silly. Like the kind of silly where you’re in chess club because you like to play chess, but slink really low in your chair at graduation because the chess president/valedictorian names you all as “loyal followers” and “pledges allegiance to chess 4-EVAR!!!”

You know that feel?

Also, because it wasn’t very well advertised.

I barely heard of it at all.

And what I heard… well… I wish I hadn’t.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Because it wasn’t available in my country…

same reason

Karizee.8076:

ArenaNet’s compilation video of their favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6sInYBCDjA

Want to see more vids from the Battery Chicken!

Is this one of the lost episodes from “The Office”?

I convinced a bunch of my friends to buy GW2 based on my good experience I made with GW1 being 100% sure GW2 will be a true successor.

Well, all of my friends left GW2 (including those who joined me from GW1) and I wouldn’t dare to get anyone into GW2…even if its a free account.

Now, when I am asked by collegues or friends if they should get GW2 I simply disagree, based on my disappointment.

So far Anet hasn’t done anything to change that and giving out free accounts probably speaks for itself….

Apart from the fact that I find that oath-thingy pretty ridicolous but it seems to blend in GW2’s theme perfectly.

I thought this whole thing was funny (if not close to a disaster, and not for those uploading embarrassing videos). I just wonder how many will actually stick with the game. Kudos for them for being able to find out the easy way without having to pay.

tell me now: did anyone make their video using Machinima?
(an example of Machinima is the ‘Make Love, not Warcraft’ episode of Southpark – every time they are in-game)
it would be royally awesome to have your previous character in another game make the oath