The ArenaNet Wish

We have come across a great story about a girl named Emily. She had heart failure and through the Make-A-Wish Foundation was allowed to tour the ArenaNet offices and play Guild Wars 2. Make-A-Wish Foundation is a children's organization that grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions. Emily's mom has up a great blog post about her tour of the ArenaNet offices and her experience there. You don't want to miss this!

After lunch, they let her play Guild Wars 2, with a bunch of people in the office. It was a blast to play with the developers; at one point she said, "I wish there were some sticks on this beach." One of the developers rewrote the game to put sticks there. There were lots of laughs, and the team really enjoyed watching her play and seeing what she focused on.

Read all about Emily's story here: Emily's Heart Updates.

This goes way high on my list of favourite things A.Net has ever done!
Bravo!

That's very nice of Anet

I wish I could of played GW2 lol

Great story. Really enjoyed reading it and hope the best for Emily. Job well done Anet, you make a lot of people happy.

Yeah great story, and I as well hope the best for Emily. Nice job Anet

-------They convened a group of their eight senior designers and Emily, and they asked Emily to help them design an "Event" for the game. If you want to see it, buy Guild Wars 2 when it comes out, but I can tell you that Emily came up with an idea they really liked.-------

Now that is awesome. Good for you Anet

Very good of ANET!!!

Man my dream would be this!!!

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i realy realy like this story is a great organisation ^^ keep on the good job and good job Anet ^^

greets silvana

That is truly amazing.

Makes meh all happy inside that ANet was kind enough to do all that for the girl. D'awwwww.

ANet just got some good points after a string of bad ones well done anet

This really is an amazing thing for them to do. Goes to show that not all companies are just out for money and really do care.

+1 for anet

Awesome PR

That's kinda sweet and good for Guild Wars, but she should have wished for unlimited wishes.

That's awesome!

So how many will start search for the sticks on the beach, and Emily's event as soon as they release the game? And I think they should design one character with her appearance and personality so she literary lives onin the game when she can no longer live on in real.

quoted for the truth, way to go a-net

Now that's an awesome story.

First alpha tester much?

+1 ANet. Actually +2 for bringing back heroes in to GH.

See, ANet isn't that bad all you flamers.

Great from Anet,
Its nice to know they did that for her
All the best for Emily!

That's good stuff, proud of you anet.