Thanks Guild Wars Team for the Holiday Card

I checked my mail today and was taken back for an unexpected surprise from Anet a Happy Holiday Card.


To all of Guild Wars Team I just want to say thank you for the card and I hope that all of you and your families have a Happy & Safe Holidays as well.


Sincerely
Viper008

I didn't get one

wtf? unless your superfan or seomthing doubt that ur telling truth

nothing either

I might've, I deleted something that came in my yahoo spam area of the mailbox .. deleted it.

But if the title was "Holiday card" or "seasons greetings" then no, that wasnt the message i got.

I got one in the mail too. Actual mail not email. Has a picture of a derv like the nightfall box but with christmas color clothing on the front.

Inside it says "From the Kingdom of ascalon to shing jea monastery, from kamadan to lion's arch, we wish you the happiest of holidays!"

"From all of us on the Guild Wars Team"

And it has a bunch of signatures inside it.


oh yea and Thanks Anet! That was a great gift! More special than some digital goody. Never expected it.

card, what card....the only stuff I get in the RL mail is credit card offers and bills.......and recently catalogues......................though ebay sent me an xmas card...that was wierd

It was sent by snail mail and not by email

I have no reason to make up make stuff like this since its waste of my time while I have better things to do than that so take my word as is or leave it. For all I know all the names they picked were random from all the Guild Wars accounts

Mine was numbered 335/1000 so I'm not the only one that was sent one in the mail, Gaile and several other Guild Wars Team members took their time and personally singed them.

If Gaile sees this thread she can confirm that Anet did in fact send SOME people a card for the Holidays.

Here is the story of the holiday cards:

Several weeks ago, the Guild Wars team came up with the idea that they would like to do something special for the players. However, the thought of hand-signing and hand-numbering hundreds of thousands of card—in lovely sparkly silver ink, I'll have you know—was pretty daunting, especially at this busy time of year and with Wintersday festivities to plan. As much as we wanted to do such a thing, we knew that we could not.

The Frog stepped up to the plate, saying, "There are citizens of note, surely to at least a few of them a holiday greeting could be sent?" We hesitated still—eying calendars and schedules—and the kindly ancient amphibian took the matter into his own…hands? paws? flippers?... anyway, The Frog offered to help, saying, "We could assist with the finding of these good folk!"

Since we all know The Frog is particularly fond for all things having to do with holidays, festivities, and parties, his gracious offer did not surprise us. However, I confess that we were a bit startled to see the entire TPN (Tadpole Network) don seasonally-correct snowmen suits and start searching the game world. They traveled Tyria. They combed Cantha. They examined Elona. And after their endeavours, they provided a list of notable citizens to us. This list consisted of those they found—through mysterious means—to have shown themselves to be "extraordinary citizens." {To us, this translated to "having shown outstanding support for Guild Wars and ArenaNet," of course.} So of those names, our list was built.

Flash forward past design discussions, message writing, folding parties, co-founders numbering, stack passing, envelope stuffing, address list sorting, post office line standing, and more, and the cards are just now landing in the hands of many exceptional Guild Wars players, with more to come in the next week or two.

If you wonder how these individuals were selected, well, that is where the message gets even more cryptic: Compare who you are, what you have done, and consider your connectedness to and involvement with the game. There are things that you share in common. And that… is all I shall say.

We look forward to seeing everyone in the Wintersday Festival, where we will have greetings and goodies this week for all!

Damit and here i was thinking i shouldnt create an i love anet thread. Damn me for thinking i shouldnt look like a kid..

lol. Ill never get one. I flame too much. lol

I am too new to get one. My Necromancer is feared in Aspenwood though, same with my Ranger in AB.

I got home from a boring day at work (and a dentist appointment ) and mom handed me the mail, i had a bill and to my surprise an envelope from Anet, i opened the envelope and to my delighted surprise there was a Christmas Card #789/1000, It made my day! Thank you Gaile and everyone else on the Anet team that took their personal time to sign my card, it really means allot to me .

Thanks you again and Merry Christmas to the entire Anet team, and all who read this!

William The Swift.

P.S. I might upload a picture of the card if anyone wants to see it, if Gaile doesn't mind XD.

Oh, please do! We have no objections to you sharing. And honestly, your note -- this time of year -- I'm sitting here wiping the corner of my eye. *dust, don't you know?*

Is it activities in game or on forums? I don't understand how you select people as suitable for Christmas cards.

Well I'm pretty sure at least one requirement is having all 3 chapters since they mention all 3 in the card.

I have all 3, 2 of them Collectors editions. I've also bought a ton of character slots. I have 26 slots. That could be a factor XD.

I have number 274/1000

....I'm in Thailand, and I have a feeling that the postel cost would be too high to send the card to me so..... I guess I'm not getting one.

;~(

I'm too brutally honest to make the Christmas card list.

This is a picture of my card. Sorry for bad lighting, had to use my webcam.

That means that any amount of great support shown here in the forums is hardly going to get some of us recognised, considering that a lot of us have nothing here that even remotely hints at which GW account we own.

Hmmm...what do viper008 and Kool Pajamas have in common? (And with any others who step forward??)

You mean like that field in our forum profile for our IGN? Though I don't know the exact criteria they had for this, if it was just in-game stuff a la the Scribe shout-out section, community support through the forums, actually doing stuff for ANet (alpha testing, etc), a mix of all three, or what.

Both are relatively obscure posters. I noticed the same with the people who posted they they had the card on GWO.

Coincidence? I think not.

Oh it's an actual card. I thought it was just an email. Anet don't have my address, so that rules me out. :s

I still want to know what makes you get one, not some cryptic reply about a frog.

Could be people who sent in artwork for weapons, capes, event items etc, seeing as they supplied their address, it would be easy to thanks them with a card, instead of randomly selecting players and asking them for the address.

Location could be it easily.

I'd check The Scribe for character names that have done good deeds and go from there.

Beta Testers? (IF you give them your address, I dunno?)
First people to buy GW online?
People that just give them their address, like in the Design A Weapon comps. and stuff?

Just some ideas. :P

How cool! Was it US only?

So 1000 people are more important then the 3 million people who have purchased Guild Wars so far.

Why didn't they just send everyone a Digitial eGreeting?

well i didnt get one yet either, so lol. yea it would have been better to send everyone a ecard, thats just my opinion. grats to those that did get the card. another thing i missed out on like the party on my bday by anet

christmas isn't here yet, they still might send e-cards to everyone ... or maybe just to the whiners.

I wonder how much they would be worth on ebay. Limited edition and signed holiday cards.....

I think the Wintersday events and festivities are the nicest Season's greetings to the mass of GW players. While it's cryptic how they chose the 1000 who got the card, even if it's just a random thousand people, I think it's a nice personal touch and gift from Anet. But I'm sure they somehow selected, so cheers for all the lucky/worthy ones

Nope, we signed and sent over a bunch to NCsoft Europe and they're kindly going to put the stamp on the envelope and send from there. Many will arrive after Christmas, but they're not Christmas cards, they're Wintersday or Holiday cards, so no worries.

We have other plans. Watch the website.

That's kinda cool actually
It'd be nice to get one, but I'm sure there are others out there who have shown ANet far more "support" than me.

Whilst I have all the preorders (apart from all the shop-specific US ones; I only got the Censor's Icon ), all the CEs, a 2006 edition of Prophecies, 3 extra character slots and a standard edition of Prophecies too, I'm sure there are absolute GW loonies out there who have 2 of each CE, innumerable extra character slots, all the international editions and every last pre-order, as well as all of the PvP unlock packs.

That's assuming that ANet mean "support" in the financial sense of course...

Hey Gaile i love Anet <3, however you should really go past the PvP forums sometimes it would mean a lot to PvP players ebcause we feel kind of left out?

Anyway to those who ogt there cards Congrats, Merry Christmas

If there was a thread already started on this subject, I apologize as the search function isn't working at this time (I only get a message saying that this function is disable for some reason).

Anyway, I just want to add my thank you to Anet for the personal touch of sending a card. This is one of the reasons (aside from making not only one, but THREE outstanding RPGs), that Anet is a step above other game developers. I can say without a doubt, that this card (indeed personally signed) is one of the best surprises I have ever received.

Keep up the great work guys and gals, here's wishing your holiday is just as joyous, and the upcoming year brings even better Guild Wars fun!

Hanok Odbrook (Jim B.)
Real Millennium Group Guild
Truth * Knowledge * Peace

Nice gesture Anet and gratz to the people who received one or will receive one.

what titles do the people that recieved a card have... King of A Big Deal or People Know me? Just trying to figure out how peeps were selected....grats and Happy Wintersday to ALL