Honkai: Star Rail – Don’t Open This!!! mail may net you Sampo for free

Compensation for getting rickrolled
Honkai: Star Rail – Don’t Open This!!! mail may net you Sampo for free
Honkai: Star Rail – Don’t Open This!!! mail may net you Sampo for free /

It’s Sparkle release day in Honkai: Star Rail and the Masked Fool has a special present for all players of the mobile game to celebrate her launch that may net you a free copy of Sampo. Everyone logging into the game after 12pm server time on February 29, 2024, will receive a package from Sparkle via in-game mail, titled “Don’t Open This!!!

However, you’ll really, really want to open the letter, because it contains ten Fuel to refill your Trailblaze Power with as well as a unique item to represent Sparkle’s package in the game – definitely read the description.

Can hear her giggle at the thought of rickrolling all of us? What a menace / HoYoverse

That’s not all, though. In addition to these items, players will receive random surprise rewards for opening the package, because of course – what could be more on-brand for Sparkle? Some of these rewards are rather underwhelming, such as Praise of High Morals or literal Trash. You can also get one Credbit, which can be exchanged for 100,000 Credits, so that’s already a lot more useful.

However, there seems to be a jackpot of sorts as well: Some users have reported getting a free copy of 4-Star character Sampo, a fellow Masked Fool and friend of Sparkle. This is without a doubt the best possible reward we know about so far – unless there is a chance of Sparkle herself appearing. We haven’t seen that happen yet, though.

As far as we know there doesn’t seem to be a special condition for receiving the free Sampo – it’s really just a random draw. Not a surprise, given that this is the most amusing way to execute this whole thing and we know that Sparkle is always looking for new ways to please The Elation. 

You have 30 days to claim and open the package after it landed in your mail, so be sure not to forget about it.

HoYoverse has already given Sparkle three trailers and now this nice in-game surprise, so you know she’s in high favor at the Shanghai HQ. Not that we mind.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg