Birthday Presents for accounts

I think people should receive presents for every 12 months their account has been active.

Why?
Some of us have been playing 22 months but have just deleted older characters to make room when it was much needed with only 4 character slots.
Just an opinion, please reply whether it be negative or positive.

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It's your fault you deleted the characters, not ArenaNet's. Live with it. It's not like you missed a one million dollar oppertunity...

I didn't say it wasn't my fault I am just suggesting rewards for account age

Rewards should be account based too, like +1000 fame on your account.

There is a reward for account age. Your account has to be 12 months old for your character to be 12 months old, correct? Thus, it's transverse.

I would agree with something small and trivial.

How about a mini pig.


But the real reward should go to Characters that reach 2years.

ok maybe a tax break 10k for an account!

Well it could get flawed for example, on the accounts birthday the person can keep recreating characters to get birthday gifts thus creating an endless supply of gifts... But i guess with a one day age req, it could work out well But yeah i guess i Have to go with Zinger on this one

after the 1 year bday present, that should have been everyone's clue that you shouldn't delete characters

when the 1 year mini pets were introduced, I felt some sympathy for people who had just deleted their characters. That was almost a year ago. I don't hold that sympathy for anyone since then.

So you are recommending presents based on ACCOUNT age, correct? Which of your characters would receive this present? And that would mean that you only get one since your ACCOUNT only reaches that age once. So all the other characters are SOL? Really a poorly thought out proposal, as in, you haven't thought out anything it would seem. Basically you are just mad that you get nothing because you delete characters.

Since Guild Wars characters are "disposable" it is somewhat odd that it is the character birthdays that get you gifts and not the account. Also, consider the fact that owning more than one campaign merits nothing as well.

If you look at the Guild Wars game manuals and FAQ's, you are encouraged to delete characters when you want to try something new. So, it presents a little bit of a disconnect in my opinion.

...haven't we had this debate a few times before? It never goes well....I have a bad feeling about this...

we have shakti, and there are two ways of looking at this, each with its own logic

I don't see ANet changing this and it isn't posed as a suggestion, more as an observation. If things could be rewound, on the account's birthday a gift would be "given" to the oldest character on that account.

This would have rewarded longevity while not inadvertently penalizing those people who took advantage of the re-inventive nature of the game.

But, the deed is done, stranger things than this have become staples of tradition.

Of course, you aren't referring to the fact that distributing a single reward to an account isn't possible.

See Grey Giant, See CE Pets.

I think the main presents should be for character age. But maybe there could be a biannual or even triannual account birthday present that was a smaller gift than the character birthday presents, like maybe just a title.

I agree with that. Not a gift every once a year but rather once every two for three years, its fair. I can't see why this should'nt be implemented. A title sounds great, its simple and people would generally gain respect from it moreso than the whole year old character thing.

The problem is, for me that the whole keeping characters for years thing, is that when chapters are released with better hairstyles, face models etc. you grow bored of looking at your character (i mean chalk pale necros arent a trend anymore )

Account based > character based

*takes a shot*

oh wait, this isn't the starwars drinking game, my bad.

seriously, birthday gifts are a reward for old characters, it's a nice touch for people who keep their characters for the long term.

Oh well, minipets just take up space anyway, kind of like old characters. I have 4 so far, and can't figure out where to put them sometimes.

If there's an account birthday present, it needs to be PvP-based, like 10k Balth Faction each year. Honestly, because they are the ones who would delete their characters most often, and not have any characters that old.

So true! its your own fault,please cry some more.I care about my character and i wont delete them cause i care about them unlike some.No bank will reward you for having 2 year old account.Bday presents for characters is the reward for players dedication to the character.