An account-based gift for your 'Birthday?'

Thing is, I and many of my consorts have had the itch to delete one of our older characters before ANet introduced a yearly birthday gift to commemorate the creation of our characters.
Many of us also don't have the access to a credit card so we can buy additional slots so we can freely create and play our new characters.
I've probably owned about 20 characters (just from PvE!) and somehow I feel that it's an achievement to have had my account for 6 years, but I only have two characters that are already over 5 years of age.

I'd think it would be nice to get a small item or achievement to show that our accounts are of a certain age. I'm not sure how or what could be implemented so it wouldn't be unfair to others, but I just believe that it's quite an achievement to have had a 6 year old account.

Cheers

You can buy limited amount debit cards to use on the internet from stores if you don't have access to a credit card.

I guess you're right on that one, but I just thought of that to make a point for my case. This is not the main topic that you're talking about though. I'm not going at the lack of credit cards to buy extra slots, I'm going at the fact that many others have had their account for a longer time than their oldest character.

It's long been an annoyance that my oldest character is 8 months younger than my account. Back in the 'no more than 4 character slots' days, I deleted my 2 oldest characters (which I wasn't really playing anymore) to make room for 2 new characters, so I could try the remaining 2 professions. Six years into the game it seems a bit late to do something about it though.

It would seem reasonable, that when the account hits the 6 year mark for something to come your way to commemorate it.

If the celebration commemorates the players "loyalty to the game" then age of character shouldn't be the deciding factor.

I could play the game continuously creating new characters each year and get nothing or I could start one character play for a week and never touch the game again till now and get the goodies.

I came into the game 8 months after it came out so will get my year 6 mini next year.

Actually I agreed. Never knew about the gifts until I deleted some characters.

/signed.

It took me some time and maturity to stop deleting my characters. I'm indeed sorry that I deleted my 2005 warrior, ranger and elementalists. But I do believe that an acount based gift is better. You don't have so many mini/gifts in the market if it is based on 1 acount rather wide chracters range.

/signed.

I am in the same situation as many here. I never knew about gifts, till i joined the first guild. So my account its almost 7 months older than my characters. So

same at first it was because i only had proph but as time went on i kept getting bored.now it because it keeps me entertained ingame. ive played 43 months and only one is close to 4 years old others are close to 1-2 years. i learned now to least keep some for bday gifts.

/signed

love this idea

/signed

As long as I still get the characters' birthday gifts. I would rather have 32 gifts every year than just 4.

/signed

my dad gave me his account and immediatly got one, hell if not get commemorated for our age of our account we should get as many presetns as characters every birthday of the account... 8(characters)X(year)6

i agree hell most of didnt even know about hats or minis either.

they should give us a chance to recover an old player.

/Notsigned.
The call for everything to be simplified so everyone can get things easier has gone to far in this game.
Dont get me wrong its a great idea.But the whole point is to give your Character a Birthday....that Character accomplished being on your account for year and the continuing years.....

/not signed

Been playing 5 and a half years.
Oldest character is 2 years.
and even I think this is a bad idea.

/signed

My account is 6 years old and I always regret deleting my first toons until I was happy with what I picked. I wouldn't even mind if the account-based gived was auto customised either, it would just be nice to get something to show for account age not character age.

Easier? Not by a long shot. I'm not asking for free gifts or anything, I just feel that there's a need for an additional gift, be it a customized item or a customized tonic, I'd rather even have a customized gift for older accounts. I'm not after more presents so I can sell them.

Yeah, because it takes so much work and it's such a huge accomplishment to not have deleted characters back when that was the only way you could experience all 6 professions...

yeah sure whynot,...my oldest character was created the day I bought my account, but getting 2 gifts---always better than one!
/signed

Your missing my point.
My point is Anet gives us something, and people immediately ask Anet to simplify it.

/signed

I'm in favor of account-based vet rewards.