chinese new year 2009

ok last year we traded in pigs for celestial rats 2008

i checked up for 2009 and it says
Chinese New Year is January 26th 2009 People born in the year of the ox

any ideas what we might trade in for year of the ox?
aatxe - minator ?

Give me a celestial ox. Heck yes.

no ideas, but I highly doubt they will do the exchange of 5 rats for a new celestial since the pig exchange was more due to 'overstock' (seeing as it was a gold item) . The rats were only obtainable thru the fortunes and not during the finale---a change from the previous year when you could get the pigs both ways.

geez thinking of next year already, not even wintersday or halloween has come and gone yet (I am still barely writing 2008 on my checks!).....

I don't think there will be any trading this time around as the only reason they had the piggy trade
from what I remember was there was so many Pigs in the market.

Doh cosyfiep beat me by a min posting the explination i type to slow LOL

Heh. That's what I first thought when I saw the thread.

I'm curious myself. I suppose we'll see when it gets a tad closer.

yeh made a killing on thoes little piggies..
never hurts to be curious its only 3 months away

maybe a mini ox based on the Aatxe?
but then again we already have a mini Aatxe and Forest Minotaur

There are ox in the early Factions areas or at least Shing Jea.

I imagine there will be no trade. It'll just be the same as last year, when you get them out of the fortunes, and they'll be the celestial versions. Can't wait till the celestial dragon or tiger. Or snake lol.

Exactly. Those things are more likely to be the model for the minipet then a mino.

It won't be based on the Minotaurs (and Aatxe is basically the same as a Minotaur) because these Celestial Animals look exactly like a real animal in shape (but not size/texture).

They will probably either change it to be a new animal (or a Minotaur, for simple modelling), or use the bull from Shing Jea Island (you know, the ones that block your path all the time right outside Shing Jea Monastery?), perhaps even an Afflicted Bull from Zen Daijun!

My bet is on the normal, useless, bull.

For the rest of the Chinese New Year animals:
2010: Tiger - a large version of the Tiger pet
2011: Rabbit - There are rabbits that will be used for models.
2012: Dragon - an exact re-use of the Celestial Dragon, Tahmu, in Naphui Quarter
2013: Snake - I smell a Naga
2014: Horse - Probably going to use the Celestial Kirin, Kaijun Don
2015: Sheep - will be a new animal/model.
2016: Monkey - Simian from EN
2017: Rooster - Don't think there is a Rooster/Chicken in GW anywhere, so new model.
2018: Dog - Probably a wolf model.

After the Dragon, the events will probably only take place in GW2, Snake might make it in GW1, but until GW2 comes out, hard to tell how many will keep playing for that many more years. (sooner or later, they will be shutting down the GW1 servers, I'm sure, my guess is in 2014)

heh, if they do make a Celestial Naga, that'll suck for people trying to sell theirs XD, though I wouldn't doubt it either.

There are various roosters that I've seen around in the background, though I don't remember exactly where anymore.

Y'all have your hopes set a little high don'tcha? How many people are still working on GW1? Not many. Unless someone was thinking very far ahead, I wouldn't count on anything new. The events and such these days are already coded and in the system...it ain't no thang for them to reset the old stuff for holidays, weekend events and the like...I wouldn't even count on a new holiday hat this year. All that GW2 nonsense is keeping everyone quite busy, I'm sure. New content, unless already in the servers, is probably just a pipe-dream...I wouldn't hold my breath.

Some see the glass as 1/2 full, some see it 1/2 empty...but I know that even if the glass appears full, that matter is mostly empty space, barely held in a cohesive state by subatomic energy and therfore the glass and its contents are barely even there. In fact, some of it isn't even there at all at any given moment and exists somewhere else entirely. Because the particles can exist everywhere and nowhere at any given moment, part of the glass may be part of me as I may be part of the glass. When I consider the glass, I realize that we are both mostly empty, no matter how full we may appear. With the game, it contains an illusion of content, comprised entirely of energy and no real substance...unlike the glass, which it only "mostly" empty. No matter how much you see the game as full or empty, I know the truth of it - it is empty. In fact, with the game, you have no glass. So, let us not consider the content of a glass that does not exist.

or it's more just having fun than expecting them to pay that much attention to the game :P

@Twin Raven - I haven't noticed a sudden lack of attention to GW players. The complaints I see are the same ones I saw last year and the year before that. While I don't expect any major additions to GW, I do expect to see new minis and festival hats.

And maybe, just maybe, some new things like the M.O.X. quest. It doesn't take much to put a little joy in the heart of a GW player.

@OP - here is a link to the wiki page on the Miniature Pig http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Miniature_Pig
The problem was that because it was also the gift dropped into your inventory if your district won the cooking contest, players could go afk and get a lot of pigs. Thus a gold mini became as or more common than white minis.

ArenaNet's solution was to have players trade them (5 to 1) in for a Celestial Pig. And no more minis as prizes for the cookoff.

Sorry so when is this festival exactly? I missed it last year made me angry ><

I doubt there will be a trade again, they got rid of the pigs as they wernt really celestial looking and there were shitloads of them. Just expect a pet at the end of the festival again. And isnt it a bit early for this?

woot gotta get the ox. ox is definitely the best

I vote the Rogue Bull from Pre-searing.

Darcy, you remind me of my mom...in a good way. She tends to find the good in everything: lose a job, find a better one...get a divorce, just means you have room in your heart for someone better...get a foot amputated, save 1/2 on the cost of shoes. You are right about finding joy in the small things...I just tend to find joy in the things I discover I have istead of the things I hope for and may never see. Living in the moment leaves a lot less room for disappointment...a lesson I learned whilst waiting for a certain item to appear in game for almost a year. Now, I don't have any expectations, so I'm rarely disappointed.