Guild Wars 2

So, a lot of GW1 vets and alt-o-holics are crying foul because gifts either 1) don’t meet their expectation or 2) are useless/repetitive.

Others don’t seem to mind, stating free stuff is always great, no matter it’s utility.

No matter which side you are on though, we all agree that we love the IDEA of bday gifts. And so does Anet as they happily brought back this GW1 tradition. I bought GW2 planning on playing it for many years, so I’m looking forward to seeing how bday gifts evolve in the future.

Now don’t hear me wrong, I love bday gifts and how anet honors players with free stuff, both content and gifts. But these gifts do seem like they could have been slightly improved, avoiding much of the drama they have caused.

1. Scrolls could have inherently granted 20 skill points if your character is already over lvl 20.
2. Anet just launched a new mini pet series. The gifts could have either contained 1 mini from that set – or – Jennah could have been mystic forgable.

That’s it, problems solved. And these fixes could still be implemented, so here’s hoping

Now, debating on what type of content gifts could have/should have had is another topic. But as far as what we were given, I think these two adjustments would have made the world of a difference.

Last night I received via an ANET game mail ANOTHER B-DAY gift, why? I only have 1 character, you can take it back. I thought it was something else as it was my physical birthday and I really don’t need a repeat of what I already got a couple days before.