6 Months ago, Arenanet challenged us to reach 1,000,000 likes on the Guild Wars 2 Facebook page.
The blogpost Are You One in a Million had tempted us with juicy in-game rewards such as a special achievement , a communal boost bonfire , a boost for 24 hours of 200% Magic Find and coins from kills and 3 consumable Fireworks.
We´re at 999,851.
A few hours ago, ~RB2 replied to a comment asking for the rewards. This was the answer: We might have a little something up our sleeve. ~RB2
meh, I already liked their page since day 1 I knew about it. This is coming from someone who has a “serious” facebook where I dont particularly enjoy the thought of other people knowing I play videogames. I did it simply because at the end of the day I do like the game and Im sure most people in my facebook dont give a rat’s rear end if I play video games, all I care is to be kept informed with streams, patches, fan-made stuff, and any random status it might pop up (although I refrain from posting in those too often)
I’m glad the facebook community is growing and just seeing new players running around in the game is more than enough reward for me, after all, the mai reason I play this game is to play with others.
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I’m glad they’re doing this personally. It really annoyed me when they set a specific deadline (end of July), the target wasn’t met and so many people were demanding the rewards anyway.
It’s not exactly the same but rewarding everyone for hitting the target months after the deadline would seem like giving in to those demands to me.
Plus it saves having to read all the topics complaining about the free reward not being good enough.
Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).
Maybe its just me but it screams the game is dying when they come out and say there will be no reward.
There seems to be a HUGE issue with money at Arena.net…. They always seem to be lacking funds to do anything.
What are you expecting as a reward if you think the cost would be an issue?
The items listed in the first post are all existing in-game objects, except the achievement which should be easy to create using the existing system. All it’d take is one person typing out a short mail, attaching the items and setting a computer to send it out using the in-game equivalent of mail merge (which we know they can already do because they send mass mails all the time).
It’d take an intern less than an hour and cost Anet nothing more than their salary for that time, a few dollars at most.
Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).
Maybe its just me but it screams the game is dying when they come out and say there will be no reward.
There seems to be a HUGE issue with money at Arena.net…. They always seem to be lacking funds to do anything.
So basically, you’re taking from the fact that the deadline for the thing was over 5 months ago, that the reason they aren’t giving any prizes out is because of money…
I don’t think you’re considering the fact that if they did reach the 1mil likes before the deadline, then they’d have had to provide what they said they would.
Life is a journey.
Time is a river.
The door is ajar.
Even if they do give anything it won’t be for a week or so at least. It’s Christmas Eve, all non-essential Anet staff are off until after New Years, and I suspect those who do have to work are doing minimal hours for essential things like checking the servers are running and checking urgent support emails.
Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).
I think it made them look bad by presenting that goal and not coming anywhere close to meeting it. With that, I would never have expected them to still give out rewards.
Arena.net sets a goal and a deadline. The goal is met 5 months after the deadline. People are furious that they aren’t getting a reward for not making the deadline.
I think it made them look bad by presenting that goal and not coming anywhere close to meeting it. With that, I would never have expected them to still give out rewards.
Even if they hit it they’d reward all who participated with a green and some bloodstone dust.
I think it made them look bad by presenting that goal and not coming anywhere close to meeting it. With that, I would never have expected them to still give out rewards.
Even if they hit it they’d reward all who participated with a green and some bloodstone dust.
But that’s not true, we already knew what the rewards were.
I think it made them look bad by presenting that goal and not coming anywhere close to meeting it. With that, I would never have expected them to still give out rewards.
Even if they hit it they’d reward all who participated with a green and some bloodstone dust.
But that’s not true, we already knew what the rewards were.
I think it made them look bad by presenting that goal and not coming anywhere close to meeting it. With that, I would never have expected them to still give out rewards.
Even if they hit it they’d reward all who participated with a green and some bloodstone dust.
But that’s not true, we already knew what the rewards were.
A blue and bloodstone dust?
By the time they made that challenge we didn’t even have bloodstone dust.
No, begging for likes is like being the drunk, scantly clad girl at a party seeking acceptance and looking for attention. It’s sad. So no, I never like anything unless I’m 100% sure I really do like it.
No, begging for likes is like being the drunk, scantly clad girl at a party seeking acceptance and looking for attention. It’s sad. So no, I never like anything unless I’m 100% sure I really do like it.
They weren’t begging for likes. They just said if they reach one million in a certain amount of time, they’ll celebrate it with a little giveaway for everyone. That’s all.
Also, since you’re playing this game and reading and posting in the forum, I assume you like Guild Wars 2. Otherwise you wouldn’t be here… or would you?
No, begging for likes is like being the drunk, scantly clad girl at a party seeking acceptance and looking for attention. It’s sad. So no, I never like anything unless I’m 100% sure I really do like it.
They weren’t begging for likes. They just said if they reach one million in a certain amount of time, they’ll celebrate it with a little giveaway for everyone. That’s all.
Also, since you’re playing this game and reading and posting in the forum, I assume you like Guild Wars 2. Otherwise you wouldn’t be here… or would you?
Who said I didn’t like the game? Can you point out to me where I said that? I gave an opinion on what it takes for me to like something on a social media site. Most of these “like” contests are indeed begging fests, go look on youtube at the people that try really hard to get likes. I rarely like anything 100% as in I am 100% completely and utterly satisfied to the point that my mind is blown and therefore want to log into something I use once a year to “like” something. I enjoy the game, it’s far from perfect but it’s fun, soon as it stops you won’t see me on forums here.
Well, since the question was “are you one in a million” and you replied “no…… because I don’t like stuff I don’t 100% like”, I got a bit confused. I mean, you playing and all but not really liking it… but now with the additional info that you almost never use Facebook, it makes a lot more sense. ^^
And yes, I’m well aware of those like-junkies. They are just pathetic. But what arenanet did is something completely different, and in no way even remotely similar to those like-junkies. It wasn’t a “pleeeeaaaaaaaasse like us, we give you cookies if you do!”, it was a “let’s see if we can get 1 million until then; if we do we’ll celebrate it a bit (and if not, it doesn’t really matter)”.
~RB2
