That must get the vote for worst pet ever.
Second Birthday miniatures are out!
Ferret
Wintersday Elf as a mini-pet...OMG, please shoot me now
That must get the vote for worst pet ever.
That must get the vote for worst pet ever.
Zedd Kun
New pets?! SO disappointed!!
Diddy bow
*hopes for mini shiroken*
the new minis are quite cool though
the new minis are quite cool though
Gaile Gray
No one lied. No one promised anything. Until recently we didn't even confirm there would be a gift. Now, if you can show me where we "promised" something other than a mini, I'd like to see it.
Can't?
Didn't think so.
As to why there is a birthday mini, well, we conducted numerous polls in several langauges, but there was there was no clearcut "other thing" called out by fans. Sure, there were about a hundred ideas, but none of them were resoundingly the conclusive "vote of the masses" for a birthday gift. In the collected votes, miniatures were a very highly-rated choice, and received more votes than any other single alternative. In the end, the designers chose something that they felt would be fun and enjoyable, and something that players can keep, sell, or trade, as they see fit.
It's a gift. Enjoy it, or not, but please get over the negative attitude, it contributes nothing to the discussion here.
Can't?
Didn't think so.
As to why there is a birthday mini, well, we conducted numerous polls in several langauges, but there was there was no clearcut "other thing" called out by fans. Sure, there were about a hundred ideas, but none of them were resoundingly the conclusive "vote of the masses" for a birthday gift. In the collected votes, miniatures were a very highly-rated choice, and received more votes than any other single alternative. In the end, the designers chose something that they felt would be fun and enjoyable, and something that players can keep, sell, or trade, as they see fit.
It's a gift. Enjoy it, or not, but please get over the negative attitude, it contributes nothing to the discussion here.
Sophitia Leafblade
Thanks Anet, i love the new minis but i still cant see my mini Saidra amongst them 
*hopes for 1 one day*
*hopes for 1 one day*
Etta
What about a mini Gaile Gray?
reetkever
Well so far the mini pets look awesome!
Anyone knows what the purples/golds/greens are, if they excist?
*hopes for a miniature Ettin/Tengu*
Darn I love that Aatxe and Juggernaut. (Add luckily, the fire imp is not an Ice Imp, cause Ice Imps aren't exactly... loved :P
Anyone knows what the purples/golds/greens are, if they excist?
*hopes for a miniature Ettin/Tengu*
Darn I love that Aatxe and Juggernaut. (Add luckily, the fire imp is not an Ice Imp, cause Ice Imps aren't exactly... loved :P
Nexus Icon
The reason I can't show you Gaile is that the Game and Dev tracker forum on this site is completely impossible to search.
However, I am absolutely positive that you did say that second birthday presents would be different after birthday miniatures were released last year.
As for one clearcut thing, I am of the opinion that the way the polls were conducted was incorrect, and obviously gave you the option to use the easy way out.
Instead of offering multiple different options, they should have asked:
"Do you want miniatures for your second birthday, yes or no?".
I am positive that you would have received an overwhelming "No" vote.
However, I am absolutely positive that you did say that second birthday presents would be different after birthday miniatures were released last year.
As for one clearcut thing, I am of the opinion that the way the polls were conducted was incorrect, and obviously gave you the option to use the easy way out.
Instead of offering multiple different options, they should have asked:
"Do you want miniatures for your second birthday, yes or no?".
I am positive that you would have received an overwhelming "No" vote.
B.N
I agree with Gaile on this, people need to get over their selfish attitude and deal with whatever happens. If Anet fails at anything its your own opinion. They work hard to bring everyone such a wonderful game, so at least get over your disappointments.
Simple, if you don't want your mini, sell it to some new player.
Simple, if you don't want your mini, sell it to some new player.
udk-birDy
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Ahahahahaha , that would be very FUNNY !!!
Necro Niazriv
no miniglint? 
Edge Martinez
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It's a gift. Enjoy it, or not, but please get over the negative attitude, it contributes nothing to the discussion here.
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Mr. G
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Bah my birthdays are way off...I LOVE the jugg thou (being proudly kurzick)
Rhedd
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oooo neat. so thats the thorn wolf? I like it!
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And I think I forgot to say, I'm PERFECTLY happy with new minipets! I've been looking forward to them for the whole year. ^_^
Cacheelma
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The reason I can't show you Gaile is that the Game and Dev tracker forum on this site is completely impossible to search.
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As for one clearcut thing, I am of the opinion that the way the polls were conducted was incorrect, and obviously gave you the option to use the easy way out.
Instead of offering multiple different options, they should have asked: "Do you want miniatures for your second birthday, yes or no?". I am positive that you would have received an overwhelming "No" vote. |
If such poll's existed, I highly doubt people would've voted "no". Why? Because when a poll asks "Do you want this?" and gives 2 choices of yes and no, it could mean that if you choose "no", you won't get ANYTHING.
ss1986v2
i love the mini cow! i must have.
Ferret
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If such poll's existed, I highly doubt people would've voted "no". Why? Because when a poll asks "Do you want this?" and gives 2 choices of yes and no, it could mean that if you choose "no", you won't get ANYTHING.
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There was a CLEAR favourite and it wasnt mini-pets, in fact, mini's were mostly on the 'please no' lines.
Here is the link: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10125747
I dont say this to complain or that i am unhappy, i just ran a neutral poll that offered up the most popular requests as options.
I have nothing against Gaile, in fact she has helped me out in the past, but i do think she over-reacted a little with her comment/post. You have to understand some people will always be unhappy with the choices that were made, even if nothing had to be offered at all.
Either way we have mini-pets now, and some will be great and some will suck, some will allow their lucky owners to earn vast sums of gold, others wont. It would be nice to see an official list of what new pets there are.
I just hope i dont get a mini-elf, they look so damn ugly when you use tonics, let alone as a pet. Many of the others shown so far in this thread do look very nice though.
jackie
Gief mini-dolyak <3
Btw. Kanaxai is regional mini-pet and not 2nd birthday prezzie, only 26 of them around though.
Btw. Kanaxai is regional mini-pet and not 2nd birthday prezzie, only 26 of them around though.
Infinity^
You never get what you want for your birthday, that's just life.
Anyone want to buy a minipet?
Anyone want to buy a minipet?
=HT=E5Destroyer
my character has been around since the beta. how come i have not got a gift yet? when i do /age it says 23 months.
Theus
Wow..Minipet Elf.You're a little late there.And its a pretty terrible Minipet.
nuetina
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my character has been around since the beta. how come i have not got a gift yet? when i do /age it says 23 months.
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Cacheelma
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my character has been around since the beta. how come i have not got a gift yet? when i do /age it says 23 months.
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Alderin
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As to why there is a birthday mini, well, we conducted numerous polls in several langauges, but there was there was no clearcut "other thing" called out by fans. Sure, there were about a hundred ideas, but none of them were resoundingly the conclusive "vote of the masses" for a birthday gift. In the collected votes, miniatures were a very highly-rated choice, and received more votes than any other single alternative. In the end, the designers chose something that they felt would be fun and enjoyable, and something that players can keep, sell, or trade, as they see fit.
It's a gift. Enjoy it, or not, but please get over the negative attitude, it contributes nothing to the discussion here. |
Whether you like people being negative or not it doesn't really matter as you are the one that's supposed to listen to everyone's point of views and relay them to the Dev's right? If you are only paying attention to just the ones you want to listen to then that is being more than a bit biased and goes against the claims of listening to the playerbase. People complained about mini-pets for quite some time and the pets keep comming and if you choose to not listen to all the people showing their dislike of them then that explain why there are so many mini-pets still being made.
As for me, I'm hoping to get an Aatxe. ^_^
J.Kougar
How disappointing.
If they were going to just release more useless mini-pets to clog up our storage boxes, the least they could have done was pick some cool enemies to make miniatures of, and not the really really really bad selection of stuff almost nobody wants that they did pick.
Why not popular and/or cool creatures like Mursaat, Griffons, other Charr besides the Shaman, Nightmares, Skeletons, Smoke Phantoms, Hellhounds, Wraith, or any of the other decent monsters out there... why the unpopular crap they did select like Palawa Joko, Wintersday Elf, Harpy, etc.?
That's just cruel. Nobody deserves to have her follow them around all the time.
Eah, actually I have to disagree with you there. See, ArenaNet is a company that makes money by selling it's game to people, and keeping those people happy and enjoying the game so that they keep buying the new expansions/campaigns and keep picking up more things like extra character slots and such. That's how they continue to make money and stay in business, and they can't do that if the customer's aren't happy. If they never went out of their way to give you anything special to counter all the times they make huge nerfs, cause bugs and glitches that destroy hours of hard work, and fail again and again to provide the frequently requested additions to the game instead of the side things they do add that no one ever asked for in the first place. Currently, a lot of people are unhappy with how Guild Wars has been going the last six months or so, and a lot have left. It's clear to see how unhappy the majority of the community is if you look over forums like this, so ArenaNet has to keep trying to keep the customers pleased so that they keep buying and the company continues to make a profit. After all, without a profit you have no company at all.
If they were going to just release more useless mini-pets to clog up our storage boxes, the least they could have done was pick some cool enemies to make miniatures of, and not the really really really bad selection of stuff almost nobody wants that they did pick.
Why not popular and/or cool creatures like Mursaat, Griffons, other Charr besides the Shaman, Nightmares, Skeletons, Smoke Phantoms, Hellhounds, Wraith, or any of the other decent monsters out there... why the unpopular crap they did select like Palawa Joko, Wintersday Elf, Harpy, etc.?
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What about a mini Gaile Gray?
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How ungrateful! A.net didn't need to give you or anyone else anything at all. Mini-pets are a free gift, nothing more. We should be please A.net even gave us anything.
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Sophitia Leafblade
I bet the Djinn is a gold one 
since alot of people wanted one in the suggestion threads. If it is that just makes one more common one and we have the entire set worked out (is there is the exact same amount as there was last year)
Woot there we go i was right its gold so the List comes to:
White:
* Aatxe
* Fire Imp
* Harpie
* Heket
* Juggernaut
* Mandragor Imp
* Thorn Wolf
* Wind Rider
Purple:
* Christmas Elf
* Koss
* Palawa Joko
Gold:
* Lich Lord
* Water Djinn
Green:
* Gwen
Woot there we go i was right its gold so the List comes to:
White:
* Aatxe
* Fire Imp
* Harpie
* Heket
* Juggernaut
* Mandragor Imp
* Thorn Wolf
* Wind Rider
Purple:
* Christmas Elf
* Koss
* Palawa Joko
Gold:
* Lich Lord
* Water Djinn
Green:
* Gwen
Theus
A majority of those Minipets are pretty terrible.
/sigh
Anet had so many better things they could have made Minipets.
/sigh
Anet had so many better things they could have made Minipets.
Diddy bow
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FYI: 2 years = 24 months. And beta time doesn't count. How comes you've been with the game THIS long and not know that?
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J.Kougar
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Whether you like people being negative or not it doesn't really matter as you are the one that's supposed to listen to everyone's point of views and relay them to the Dev's right? If you are only paying attention to just the ones you want to listen to then that is being more than a bit biased and goes against the claims of listening to the playerbase. People complained about mini-pets for quite some time and the pets keep comming and if you choose to not listen to all the people showing their dislike of them then that explain why there are so many mini-pets still being made.
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RTSFirebat
Mini-Djinn anyone?
manitoba1073
All my monky wants is a mini dying nightmare. come on plzz there has to be one. I mean it was her suggestion long ago that made that interesting add to UW.
Lauryn
I would love a mini Gwen *drools* just imagine how much that would sell for lol
Kas
*shrugs*
A-Net has a habit of reading the opinions of the Fanbase and then doing something else. One may wonder where they get their information from.
The community had a poll about alternatives towards 2nd birthday gifts and they showed a great deal of frustration and desinterest towards Minipets. Interestingly enough A-Nets statement was "the community is highly interested in new minipets".
There were raging Lightbringer Title Debates about it being too much of a grind and sadly a requirement for later PVE. Yet again "the Lightbringer and Sunspear Titles were well received".
Heroes Ascent players begged for a long time to get their PVP mode fixed again from crappy and not working 6vs6 to 8vs8. Somewhere in this time A-Net proclaimed that the 6vs6 change was well received. And even when they reimplemented 8vs8 they kept the broken mechanism that keeps it just as unplayable. And once again they say the community wanted it that way.
One can only wonder where they get their information from.
A-Net has a habit of reading the opinions of the Fanbase and then doing something else. One may wonder where they get their information from.
The community had a poll about alternatives towards 2nd birthday gifts and they showed a great deal of frustration and desinterest towards Minipets. Interestingly enough A-Nets statement was "the community is highly interested in new minipets".
There were raging Lightbringer Title Debates about it being too much of a grind and sadly a requirement for later PVE. Yet again "the Lightbringer and Sunspear Titles were well received".
Heroes Ascent players begged for a long time to get their PVP mode fixed again from crappy and not working 6vs6 to 8vs8. Somewhere in this time A-Net proclaimed that the 6vs6 change was well received. And even when they reimplemented 8vs8 they kept the broken mechanism that keeps it just as unplayable. And once again they say the community wanted it that way.
One can only wonder where they get their information from.
Cassandra
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Woot there we go i was right its gold so the List comes to:
White: * Aatxe * Fire Imp * Harpie * Heket * Juggernaut * Mandragor Imp * Thorn Wolf * Wind Rider Purple: * Christmas Elf * Koss * Palawa Joko Gold: * Lich Lord * Water Djinn Green: * Gwen |
Sophitia Leafblade
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where would you put Koss in there? is he purple?
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Cacheelma
....I got a mini heket...
Marth Reynolds
Not to shabby to be honest, altough i really expected a mini azure shadow :P
only hate the elf atm so i'm hping that in 3 months time my war won't get it
only hate the elf atm so i'm hping that in 3 months time my war won't get it
Etta
Wow! there's even a mini Gwen for real! lol Is that the complete list, Sophitia?