Guild Wars 2

Question in title.
How do we obtain Mini Mr. Sparkles ingame?

1. Open up Guild Wars 2 and log in.
2. Select a character.
3. Press o.
4. Click “Redeem Code”
5. Enter the code you were given at Gamescon.
6. Open up the mail that is sent to you, make sure your inbox has space free.

Treeline.3865:

ingame?

As in what do we have to do with our character to get this minipet? Or will they add it to gemstore?. I refuse to believe we have to travel to Germany to obtain in-game items.

Treeline.3865:

Treeline.3865:

ingame?

As in what do we have to do with our character to get this minipet? Or will they add it to gemstore?. I refuse to believe we have to travel to Germany to obtain in-game items.

Why not?..

Just like you had to travel to California to get exclusive in-game pets in WoW for several years in a row by now, for example, and I bet other games have done simmilar things as well.

locoman.1974:

Just like you had to travel to California to get exclusive in-game pets in WoW for several years in a row by now, for example, and I bet other games have done simmilar things as well.

But how is that a good idea? Why cater to 1000 people who show up in germany one weekend rather than actually giving the entire playerbase who bought and keep supporting their game the oppurtunity to get it through the game they bought??

Mr. Sparkles? Is that a Skritt or something? Sounds lame.

Elbegast.6970:

Mr. Sparkles? Is that a Skritt or something? Sounds lame.

This guy but smaller: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mr._Sparkles

Cletus Van Damme.2795:

1. Open up Guild Wars 2 and log in.
2. Select a character.
3. Press o.
4. Click “Redeem Code”
5. Enter the code you were given at Gamescon.
6. Open up the mail that is sent to you, make sure your inbox has space free.

For real?! That’s lame. I recently started collecting mini’s and Mr. Sparkles would be a great addition. Very expensive to go to Gamescon and they hand out brilliant minis there? Bah..

Not sure why people are upset that some items can be “exclusive”. These are novelties, not anything that is required to play the game (you know…what you PAID for). How is it wrong for ANet to reward supporters that went to a convention event?

5 year olds throw tantrums when they can’t get everything they want as well…

Really? Mini given exclusively to very small group of people that managed to attend Gamescom? What about collectors (like me) that love collecting minis? This account bound mini cant be even traded….

Brother Grimm.5176:

Not sure why people are upset that some items can be “exclusive”. These are novelties, not anything that is required to play the game (you know…what you PAID for).

I recently started collecting mini’s and I have a completionist attitude, I would love to have Mr. Sparkles, but I can’t so easily go to Gamescon. I would like it if they put him in the gemstore for 500-800 gems or whatever as well for a limited time.

If I recall they did this last year with a clothing item, everyone hated it so they said no more of these types of things. Most likely this mini will be put up on the gem store for people who don’t live in Germany or can’t make it to [Insert Event] Until ANET confirm it is a mystery OooOooOo

Direksone.3867:

I recently started collecting mini’s and I have a completionist attitude, I would love to have Mr. Sparkles, but I can’t so easily go to Gamescon. I would like it if they put him in the gemstore for 500-800 gems or whatever as well for a limited time.

So you don’t get the mini….accept it and move on. Maybe they will put it on the Gem Store in a few years, but I doubt it. Anet has put out exclusive mini’s since the start of GW1 and the several extremely rare ones have never been available in any other way.

Nobody is intentionally provoking your ADD tendencies, they just want to reward those that went to a convention event with something special.

Direksone.3867:

I recently started collecting mini’s and I have a completionist attitude, I would love to have Mr. Sparkles, but I can’t so easily go to Gamescon. I would like it if they put him in the gemstore for 500-800 gems or whatever as well for a limited time.

So you don’t get the mini….accept it and move on. Maybe they will put it on the Gem Store in a few years, but I doubt it. Anet has put out exclusive mini’s since the start of GW1 and the several extremely rare ones have never been available in any other way (that I’m aware of). Now if you want to complain that minis are all account bound, that’s another discussion.

Nobody is intentionally provoking your ADD tendencies, they just want to reward those that went to a convention event with something special.

They might make it so if you forge 4 queen jennah you get 1 of them.

Direksone.3867:

Brother Grimm.5176:

Not sure why people are upset that some items can be “exclusive”. These are novelties, not anything that is required to play the game (you know…what you PAID for).

I recently started collecting mini’s and I have a completionist attitude, I would love to have Mr. Sparkles, but I can’t so easily go to Gamescon. I would like it if they put him in the gemstore for 500-800 gems or whatever as well for a limited time.

Keep an eye on ebay, the WoW exclusive pets and mounts (from blizzcon and the card game) usually end up there, this one might as well.

http://nerdybookahs.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/i-present-to-you-mini-mr-sparkles/

Sigh….I am not sure if this confirm that this will be the only way to acquire this mini but this is really sad…once again releasing minis in this way is just a terrible idea.

They did this in GW1 and they keep repeating this…I can only hope that these minis are also released in US and also on the Gem store.

LOL funny… clearly this is a new concept to these kids.

games ive played in the past if they had a booth at a show would offer an incentive to visit them at the show
and
theres always people that visit the booths and sell the code on amazon or ebay

its pointless for a studio to say exclusive to x show then put it on there store
people will just wait instead of visiting the booths and giving feedback / watching the talks etc

I am sure glad I don’t have OCD because I know that the completionists are going to be pretty upset when they learn that their mini collection will never be complete.

I know we had this discussion last year where arena net wanted to give out items for gamescom visitors, but this was stopped because of all the outcry from players which couldn’t go to gamescom.
I wonder why they are trying it this year again…
I was there last year and didn’t get anything, they just had canceled the give aways. This year I had the chance to set my holiday around gamescom last week, but I didn’t do it. If you hand out a gamescom-only code, please announce it before gamescom.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Anet has put out exclusive mini’s since the start of GW1 and the several extremely rare ones have never been available in any other way.

While they did do that in GW1, the big difference is that they were tradeable. Sure, they cost an arm and a leg, but anyone could still get their hands on them if they were willing to pay enough.

The underlying objective to offering special unique rewards at events like that is likely because a large portion, if not majority, of attendees are press. Give them something shiny and unique and they might just say good things about your game. Screw the many normal fans that don’t have thousands of dollars to blow on travel and entry costs that might also want one.

Not that I care at all about minis, but some other games offer items I would like, so I find the practice disgusting. Fans of the game going to a conference would be happy with some free gems or boosts. A unique item that can’t be obtained anywhere else is far from necessary.

A lot of people seem to believe that if an item is novelty, it has no value. As with things like skins the minipets value lies in simply having it, whether it is for looks or because you like to collect. It has value. Whether you need it to play the game or not is not essential.

I don’t even remotely hate Anet for handing out freebies to people who come to see them. But WHY would it be exclusive? What’s wrong with real-life t-shirts, keychains or even in-game gifts that everyone can obtain through play? Heck I wouldn’t even mind if they get the minipet before the rest of us, but why, why, why would it be unobtainable? It’s a part of the game. I didn’t read anywhere on the box that travelling across Germany was part of how to obtain in-game items.

As a HUGE fan of all things Asura I will be greatly disappointed if I am unable to get a Mr. Sparkles mini. =(

ANet hands out gifts occasionally to people who buy their gems, but also sells the gift in the gem store. The same thing could be done here.

OR they could every year at the end of the year sell all the exclusives they handed out in the gem store. That way people get several months to a year of having a special item, but the collectors and others who want it still have a chance to obtain it.

Please, just let us buy Mr. Sparkles. Out of all the minis there ever could have been, this is the one I wanted before anyone even thought of releasing it Please ANet… at the very least tell us what your plans are.

This is nothing new to ANet. They did this in gw1 with the mini panda, kanaxia, vizu, and various other minis; however, those were not account bound and thus extremely expensive. Don’t worry, just wait 7-10 years and Mr. Sparkles will be made available through other means.

Dear Arenanet, making a collectible item unavailable within game ? What were you thinking? That is a no-no.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Not sure why people are upset that some items can be “exclusive”. These are novelties, not anything that is required to play the game (you know…what you PAID for). How is it wrong for ANet to reward supporters that went to a convention event?

5 year olds throw tantrums when they can’t get everything they want as well…

I know people that collect every minipet in the game. This is their goal in the game.

One word: Ridiculous.

@Emyn and rainynoble. they’ve done it before, it won’t be the last time.

Exclusivity will only bring out resentment and pride. Both are unwelcomed in the game. Arenanet should know better than do promotions such as this.

…Give us something we like with an opportunity to reward you for it and we will.

One of my goals since the launch of the game has been to collect every miniature. I’ve done what others would consider stupid, like spending 50€ on Gems, just for their seriously annoying Wintersday RNG boxes, in order to not have a broken collection. Something I honestly wouldn’t do again granted, nor will I touch anything else they put in the Gem Store that’s RNG and a chance-based cash-milking machine, but I did it that time around, unhappily so.

Sure, there are some Special miniatures that I do not have from the Karka event as well, but all of those are obtainable through the Trading Post, so I don’t consider my collection to be broken and impossible to complete because of these. I’ll just have to spend a little extra Gold in order to get them down the line.

Now they’ve gone ahead and done this however, and my collection is seemingly going to be broken, unless they make it available to everyone through other means as well (Gem Store?). What is my incentive to keep collecting if they don’t make it available though? Where’s my incentive to keep supporting the game with real money spent on Gems in order to buy these miniatures? My collection’s broken, and what collector would want a broken collection? There’s always going to be a visible hole in the Collectibles tab when viewing them in the Bank.

I see doing things like this, being somewhat like shooting yourself in the foot.. on purpose. Pretty darn stupid in other words. For all I know, they may of course have a proper way for everyone that seriously collects, to obtain this miniature, but I somewhat get a feeling they don’t even consider what they are doing at times, before they’ve done it and the damage is done (like killing Seafarer Rest’s WvW community with making free transfers to Medium populated servers available, while SFR was a Medium populated server, in Tier 1 and on a win-streak). I sure won’t spend more money on the game for miniatures, when I can’t have a complete collection. But then again, that’s their loss, not mine. I save money, money they don’t get from me (and probably other collectors as well).

I do understand that it is nice to be able to have something within the game that you can flaunt and show as a “I was there” thing. But I think it’d be a far better idea to give them some town clothes (again), even though that would also make people unhappy, like with the white GW2 t-shirt town clothes. To be honest, I think it’d be better to just give them real life goods to enjoy, over virtual stuff like this where you just end up creating a lot of dissatisfaction.

What Absconditus wrote is pretty much the exact feeling any collector is left with right now. It seems far out if you have never been a collector, but for the ones who since release have mustered up gold and gems, played through various content and grinded Orrian Boxes to complete our mini collections this is just a bat to the face.

This feels like such a punch to the gut. As soon as I saw the little unfilled box for Mr Sparkles I was so excited. As a mini collector and Asuran fan, it ticked all my boxes. The fact that there is no way around this is pretty upsetting. At least with the town cloth GW2 tshirt I was able to get one via fan site competitions. This is just a dead end.

I think they should have advertised it clearly before hand so we had notice to get there, or not made it account bound so we could buy it off those that could make it. I don’t feel comfortable trusting eBay with my money for an ingame item. Doesn’t feel right that I should have to take that option.

Seems like there’s no way for me to get it, other than spend a fortune on ebay….
Guess this will leave a little gray box forever on my mini collection tab.

Sad, sad, sad.

Megis.9264:

Seems like there’s no way for me to get it, other than spend a fortune on ebay….
Guess this will leave a little gray box forever on my mini collection tab.

Sad, sad, sad.

I actually had a chance. A guildie was going to Gamescon today, but Anet isn’t there anymore. Sooo.. That’s where I stop buying their minipets unless they add Mr. Sparkles ingame somehow.

Yes, it does seem there are players with OCD out there.

My advice: Skip the mini. Leave an empty spot there. It’ll be good therapy for your brain.

As for the game item hoarding issue, buying bank tabs is readily available and painless. Maybe automatic deletion of items if you haven’t touched them within a certain period of time?

Icealen.3802:

Yes, it does seem there are players with OCD out there.

My advice: Skip the mini. Leave an empty spot there. It’ll be good therapy for your brain.

As for the game item hoarding issue, buying bank tabs is readily available and painless. Maybe automatic deletion of items if you haven’t touched them within a certain period of time?

Dude.. What are you even talking about? OCD != Collecting.
Skip the mini? Sure. But then I might as well skip any other minipets as well. Look at it like this; What if that SWEET armor set you want was completely available ingame, but the chestpiece was only available if you were at gamescon? You can suck it up, but since you couldn’t know before you had the rest of the pieces you are just still left with a missing piece that you can’t obtain.

Also.. Item hoarding? What? Dude, there are collectible slots for minis, none of us were talking about banks space. Deletion of.. Items.. What? Just what?

Treeline.3865:

Icealen.3802:

Yes, it does seem there are players with OCD out there.

My advice: Skip the mini. Leave an empty spot there. It’ll be good therapy for your brain.

As for the game item hoarding issue, buying bank tabs is readily available and painless. Maybe automatic deletion of items if you haven’t touched them within a certain period of time?

Dude.. What are you even talking about? OCD != Collecting.
Skip the mini? Sure. But then I might as well skip any other minipets as well. Look at it like this; What if that SWEET armor set you want was completely available ingame, but the chestpiece was only available if you were at gamescon? You can suck it up, but since you couldn’t know before you had the rest of the pieces you are just still left with a missing piece that you can’t obtain.

Also.. Item hoarding? What? Dude, there are collectible slots for minis, none of us were talking about banks space. Deletion of.. Items.. What? Just what?

Yes, skip the mini. The sun will still rise tomorrow.

If you don’t use an item and it just fills empty space in your inventory, why keep it?

Can I just say even though I’m lucky enough not to suffer from it I find it extremely insulting that people would throw around a term like OCD for anyone who wants to collect a set of items. (And I don’t even know where to begin with someone using ADD, I can only assume they got the wrong abbreviation.)

It’s things like this which make it so hard for people who do actually suffer from these disorders to get the help they need, or even to get some basic understanding and tolerance from other people.

When you reduce a serious mental condition to the same level as any behaviour you personally find even slightly unusual you are contributing to the social attitudes that make people judge anyone who actually has this condition and say rediculous things like “Well if you don’t like being mentally ill why don’t you just stop?” and leave sufferers feeling misunderstood, belittled and as if they can’t even tell anyone they have a problem, let alone seek help for it.

Icealen.3802:

Yes, skip the mini. The sun will still rise tomorrow.

If you don’t use an item and it just fills empty space in your inventory, why keep it?

Clearly you have never collected minipets.. They do not fill anything except the collectible slot designed for the mini. It does not take up any bank space.

And yes, the sun will rise the day i stop collecting minis, the day i stop doing achievements, the day I stop playing GW2. Does that mean I can’t care about the minipet??

Treeline.3865:

Icealen.3802:

Yes, it does seem there are players with OCD out there.

My advice: Skip the mini. Leave an empty spot there. It’ll be good therapy for your brain.

As for the game item hoarding issue, buying bank tabs is readily available and painless. Maybe automatic deletion of items if you haven’t touched them within a certain period of time?

Dude.. What are you even talking about? OCD != Collecting.
Skip the mini? Sure. But then I might as well skip any other minipets as well. Look at it like this; What if that SWEET armor set you want was completely available ingame, but the chestpiece was only available if you were at gamescon? You can suck it up, but since you couldn’t know before you had the rest of the pieces you are just still left with a missing piece that you can’t obtain.

Also.. Item hoarding? What? Dude, there are collectible slots for minis, none of us were talking about banks space. Deletion of.. Items.. What? Just what?

Sorry have to agree with Icelan that there seems to be some sort of OCD going on here.
Let me guess, you probably have every single living story achievement done as well and if you were to miss one due to difficulty/some other reason, you’d skip the rest of the next living story contents as well.

Treeline.3865:

Icealen.3802:

Yes, skip the mini. The sun will still rise tomorrow.

If you don’t use an item and it just fills empty space in your inventory, why keep it?

Clearly you have never collected minipets.. They do not fill anything except the collectible slot designed for the mini. It does not take up any bank space.

And yes, the sun will rise the day i stop collecting minis, the day i stop doing achievements, the day I stop playing GW2. Does that mean I can’t care about the minipet??

I hope you obtain your minipet.

Calmwinds.4753:

Sorry have to agree with Icelan that there seems to be some sort of OCD going on here.
Let me guess, you probably have every single living story achievement done as well and if you were to miss one due to difficulty/some other reason, you’d skip the rest of the next living story contents as well.

Haha, to be honest, yes, I have every single temporary achievement. But no, I would not stop doing achievements I wouldn’t be happy about missing out on one, but I would also know that it was because I lacked the skill to complete it and that is entirely my own fault. The bonus achievement for Liadri was definitely a kittene. In any case I don’t have OCD. Except from never tuning my radio into half steps I think I’m quite normal on that point

Icealen.3802:

I hope you obtain your minipet.

Thanks. Sorry for coming off, but.. I didn’t understand some of what you wrote

This is just like the thing with the Dragon Emblem Shirt town clothing, except this time, there’s a little grayed out icon constantly mocking you when you open the collectibles tab.

I thought anet learned their lesson last time with the shirt. People dislike it a great deal when you make in game items completely and utterly inaccessible for the lifetime of the game. Even worse when you label that item a “collectible” and then make it impossible to collect it.

Andrew.4506:

I thought anet learned their lesson last time with the shirt. People dislike it a great deal when you make in game items completely and utterly inaccessible for the lifetime of the game. Even worse when you label that item a “collectible” and then make it impossible to collect it.

You know it’s bad when it’s already 75 euro on ebay.

I was thinking I’d buy some gems for the Rox and Braham weapons, but I figure I might as well sell some minis and exchange some gold for gems instead. If I’m never gonna be able to complete the collection, anyway.