Guild Wars 2

Gaile Gray.6028:

And the good news is: You do not need to submit a ticket about this situation. (After all, we got the party invitation and know it’s your birthday, and we’d never dream of missing the Big Day! ~ even if we’re a bit late for some of the birthday folks! ~ )

:)

Party rock is in the house tonight!
(ugghh, sorry, I don’t even like that song)

By isolated and special, I think they mean “you started at headstart”. The funny thing is people were talking in LA about how they were getting gifts and they hadn’t played a full year…so maybe they screwed something up with the starting point of the birthdays?

Thank you very much for keeping us updated.

Gaile Gray.6028:

Update: One of the devs has identified this is a bug (but it’s sort of isolated, so you guys who got it are extra special ).

ooooow <3
I love being extra special !

Thanks for the enlightment Gaile !

Thank you Gaile.

Thanks muchly for the update <3

edit because alt+3 left a question mark…

Thank you, Gaile.

Got mine last night. Thanks for resolving this.

Savoy.6824:

Got mine last night. Thanks for resolving this.

Hm, still unresolved here.

Still isn’t resolved here either.. Both me and my husband didn’t get our birthday gifts

Still no gifts for me, too. So extra special means, we have some special bug accounts or what? I’m asking because it’s not the first time my account deals with a delay in delivering things. Any chance of getting a normal bug free account for the future? I checked the game case, yep no “with special rare delays included – Guild Wars 2 the delay edtion” on it.

Cyga.1246:

My character is 12 month old now and did not receive birthday present I played since head start 25 August .

My friend and I both made our characters within a few minutes of each other on three day early start and she has her birthday presents on all toons made that day and I don’t on any of mine.

Gaile Gray.6028:

And the good news is: You do not need to submit a ticket about this situation.

This is most reassuring, as I was beginning to think that I may have to send in a ticket. But if this isn’t the case any more; I’ll gladly wait for this issue to be resolved. Thanks for the heads up, Gaile.

Nothing in my mailbox yet, though!

Still no birthday e-mail today for me. I am another head starter.

Is is supposed to go out at daily reset time?

Same problem for me, i created 3 characters on headstart and didn’t recieved the gift, ty for your patience

Still no gift for me as well, started play as soon as headstart did. :| /age shows 12 months as well

I have this account since the Beta, I started playing since the Beta, I made my main character on the day of pre-release for beta-users (3 days before official release) and I got nothing at all, how come ?

Also I’m waiting for my gift. I bought the game the first few days of May of 2012 and have participated in all the beta. My question is: the gift is for the birthday of GW2 will have it all and then I just have to wait? Is the birthday of my account so I just have to wait? The gift is linked to the creation of my first character, which now no longer exists’, so I will receive the gift the day I created my second character?

Globo.7351:

Also I’m waiting for my gift. I bought the game the first few days of May of 2012 and have participated in all the beta. My question is: the gift is for the birthday of GW2 will have it all and then I just have to wait? Is the birthday of my account so I just have to wait? The gift is linked to the creation of my first character, which now no longer exists’, so I will receive the gift the day I created my second character?

Each character you create has a birthday — the day you create them. If you delete that character, then that character no longer has a birthday.

Still no gift here either

Going to add myself to the list. No gift for my b-day characters. But thanks for keeping us updated Gaile!!

Hi, i created my character on first days of the game release as i had pre-ordered gw2 and joined betas. My first character name is Spearrow a human ranger on North America server Stormbluff Isle. However it did not receive any birthday gift till now ? can u pls check if it is a bug or if there is something wrong ? thank u

Add me to the list of head starters that has not yet got their birthday present, too. I was even in the beta.

1) If you look, you’ll notice a thread about this already – it has a Red icon in front of it because an Anet member has posted in it.

2) For this kind of think you would want to submit a support ticket (via the link to support at the top of every forum page), normally. However, check out that post I referred to first.

Same, no gift ;(. Hope this gets sorted soon.

i have same problem with my character spearrow on server stormbluff isle. i did not receive its bday gifts although this character was created at the first days of the game release.

I have not received my gift either. One of my characters has been at 12 months for the past 2 days or so, and without a gift.

Add me to the crowd. Some of my toons haven’t received a gift, my main especially. However, some have. Ironically, my least played toon got its gift already.

It’s not funny anymore, my present is 3 days late and I only have one character. :’(

Still not resolved for me either, main character created not long after headstart launch

MrZero.4730:

It’s not funny anymore, my present is 3 days late and I only have one character. :’(

Agree, been waiting and itching to level a warrior but don’t want to put time into it w/ out the scroll.

Yeah, I’m still waiting as well.

I haven’t gotten mine. Very sad.

I stopped playing for a few months, but came back because I was excited to use the scroll with a friend. Sadly, I am also part of this group. I was a founder, part of head start, and I believe I was on the day of the restart as mentioned in an earlier post. I’m hoping to find out what this birthday gift thing is all about, because I’m beginning to think my friend is crazy.

Add me to the list of haven’t received my birthday gift. Hope this gets fixed soon.

One more waiting for the mail…

Still have not received a gift on birthday

<3

Thank you for the update.

Got my present after downloading the patch.

Thanks, The ‘fix’ could have been a lot better though. Now it just means those who had 0% of the gifts others got now have 50% of the gifts. Would have been nice to have a second booster or scroll for an alt. I guess I can start leveling my new character now, 3 days later than I wanted but at least it came.

First of all than you for the fix. But as a person who didn’t receive this item on the 25th it just seems kinda unfair that others get a secondary exp scroll and birthday boosters.

Not happy Anet. Loyal GW1 players who bought the game months in advance, participated in betas and were part of the GW2 head start get pooped on. Not only did I not get to flaunt my terribad mini 3 days before the rest of world, I don’t even get two birthday boosters.

Thank You ANet. I got my gift

Thank you for the quick fix on this.
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As for the characters that got or did not get a second gift:

When I was young there were two different ways kids in the family looked at presents at birthdays and Christmas. One way was to open your gift and focus on what you received. For the most part, kids who did this were happy because it would be something they’d asked for and wanted. (sure, there was the occasional pair of socks, but them’s the breaks )

The other way was to open your gift and then start comparing it to what the other kids got. Were the others more expensive? Did you get one item and Bobby got two? (good thing we did not have the internet to instantly check which gift was rated higher on Amazon) For the most part, kids who did this were upset in some way and enjoyed their own presents less.

I prefer the first way.

Got my present with the new patch. Thanks very much for the update

“Each gift is given on the first birthday of the character, not the account.”

I am afraid that is stupid.

I have head start, beta and pre order bla bla bla and because I decided to delete a character after the first 28 days and re-roll it I now have to wait said 28 days. UGH!!

Should be account biased. I am playing the game not the avatar behind the screen.

Just woke up to notice there was a patch, followed by finally receiving my gift. Cheers, Anet!

I have had an account from day 1 but havent recieved my birthday gift, Anet can you please review my account and award me with the first birthday gift

Not sure how you missed these threads, but, here you go: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Birthday-Present-Issues-merged/page/2#post2717921

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Details-about-the-Guild-Wars-2-First-Birthday-Gift/first#post2717880

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