Incredibly few Miniature Grawls (only 1000 total?)

Just got back from San Diego ComicCon. Yes, I flew from Florida to go, so no complaining about being "too far" in this thread . Thankfully, I got there Friday afternoon to learn that NCsoft was only able to give out 12 mini-grawl keys total for Friday. To get one myself, I'd have to come to the NCsoft booth at noon on Saturday, but was urged to line up early as only 20 keys were allocated for Saturday (yes, noon was the one and only giveaway). I got in line at 11, and it filled out at 11:30. I only assume NCsoft was given around 50 keys total for ComicCon. If GenCon got 50 as well (which is a liberal guess, as ComicCon is much bigger), then PAX is getting 900 (the other 90%) according to Gaile. That makes 1000 Grawls total

Thus, even the Con-going folk are having it rough right now.

Yeah, but didn't Gaile say they would hand out more?

But the question is how MUCH more if the lucky Con-goers only get a shot at 1000 themselves?

Hmm true, maybe they will release a slightly different one for the magazine release.

Actually, I believe what Gaile said was the keys allocated to Cons (which includes PAX), amount to roughly 10% of the total number of keys available.

Expect this mini to be in an upcoming PC Gamer (or something similar) because there's going to be an additional means of acquisition that Gaile wasn't able to specify.

Where does your number 1000 come from?

The number of 1000 available is his attempt to drive the price up on the 1 that he got at the convention.

Gaile's direct quote was: "Having said that, we realize that this is only a tiny percentage of our players! The number of keys sent to Comic-Con and the number set aside for Gen Con is relatively small, about 10% of the total available. We'll have more at PAX because that's ArenaNet's big focus this year, but again, there are more opportunities to get a key outside the shows than within them. (And if you're attending one of those shows, get there early because the key numbers are limited.)"


Now maybe the amount of keys set aside for GenCon are much more than the number set aside for ComicCon, in which case 10% might be much more than 100. I'm just estimating the number "1000" on the guess that about 50 keys each were sent to both cons. the other "90%" that Gaile is talking about seems to be in regards to PAX and whatever other promotion Anet is attempting the set up. If around 100 keys have been sent to both ComicCon and GenCon total based off my experience of incredibally few keys being given away at ComicCon, then that means there are only 1000 keys total, across all present and possibly future promotions.

I can't imagine a mini crawl being any more desirable then a full grown crawl. Now maybe and only if I could make a rug out of it to place in the Hall of Momuments would one interest me.

they dont wield a weapon either. sadness

Guys,

We sent far more than 50 keys to Comic-Con, and will send more than 50 to Gen Con. However, that's not to say they won't be somewhat rare or difficult to come by. I'm going to have a meeting this week to see if we cannot find a better means to getting the keys into the hands of the players.

The odd thing is, in another forum, a member is stating that NCsoft said they had 150 keys and that they gave them all out on the first day at noon. So you can understand my confusion here. What really happened at Comic-Con, and how do we make it better for Gen Con?

Don't worry about PAX -- this Keeper of the Keys will do her best to assure that a key gets into the hands of a lot of Guild Wars players!

I have a solution. I could give you my address and you can ship me the key. Over the internet is too risky...

It better be a Grawl Ulodyte, because I can then run armound Kamadan shouting booooomba!

Perhaps they gave a ton out on Thursday then, because I only know of the Friday and Saturday figures from personal experience

It's good to know that there are a lot more than 50 for ComicCon. 20 total for Saturday was kind of stingy imo, but if they gave a ton out unexpectedly on Thursday, that would be a valid reason

Obviously you have heard from at least two people that the folks at the booth stated extremely limited quantities of keys and you yourself have contradicted that information. I would tend to believe that both sources are correct and that someone needs to get to the bottom of what happened to all the rest of the keys that were sent to san diego or why they were telling people that.

booooomba?

Piecing together the info that we have from various sources, I don't see any impropriety. There were three days of the show, and I think the booth folks were smart to keep a few aside for Saturday only. Judging from what I've heard, the keys were distributed, primarily on Thursday, but more were given Friday and Saturday, and the numbers seems pretty ok to me.

Out of curiosity, were any keys given out for today as well? It was a shortened day for ComicCon but still a day nonetheless I went home late last night after having my fill of the event.

It was really fun! Ridiculously packed, but very well put together by the convention center and primary eventholders of ComicCon. I recommend you all to go next year.

LOL I dunno, I was contemplating the "chocolate fudge food bribe" route, myself.

(then again, Gaile would probably throw me out on my butt if I showed up with random chocolate fudge, thinking I'm a creepy stalker or something. )

BOOOOOMBA!

-kel