World of Warcraft: Second Key Drawing Chaos

Admin

Today we held our second beta key handout for World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor expansion.  Unfortunately this did not go as planned and the community being aware of our 4PM-7PM PDT event window brought our web servers to their knees. 

Just as the many users could not access our site  - we were also unable to load the keys through our normal administration interface and make a traditional news post, twitter post, etc.  The only option we had was to "poke" the keys into our database server so that we could meet the commitment we gave the community to get the keys online in that timeframe.  After we did this the 500 keys were gone in just over a minute.

We were unaware that we would see this kind of demand for these keys as we have never seen this in the past with any beta key handout event.

The good news - we still have 4,000 beta keys to issue in the month of July.  The rest of these will be issued through a weekly sweepstakes event where we will give users 72+ hours to enter the sweepstakes and we will then randomly select the winners and send them keys in the following 24-48 hours.  This is the only way that we can capacitate this kind of demand.

We are very sorry for how difficult it was for users to even try to get one of the few 500 keys we had to offer today and we hope these random sweepstakes will at least give all members a free chance to get access to this exciting beta opportunity.

gueren717

you assholes

 

edit: okay I'm sorry I'm just frustrated and that it what came to mind. I blew off a lot of things because I was convinced I could get a beta key only to find out it was a lost cause. Thanks for the clarification but next time just stall the event or something. Your servers should not affect whether a staff member can use their phone to tweet: "servers are crashing and event is stalled" or SOMETHING! the keys were on the OLD link...I mean this is a site that has constant giveaways and I expected some experience because rule number 1 of giveaways over a period of time is not to reveal the link until it's time to giveaway...let alone a link that you already used for the same purpose...I MEAN COME ON GUYS! Help us out a bit, maybe make the next giveaway on Friday or Saturday or sometime soon!

suthix

thats pathetic..

Yhaatheth

Yikes, I feel dumb for refreshing 4 different pages for 2 hours!

gueren717

I would just like to know where we were supossed to find these keys! I've been refreshing the pages for 2hrs and 30mins! What the hell! Where were they?

 

mtag17

Me

Iceflare

Thanks.  I sat here for 2 and a half houres for nothing.  mind telling me how the hell we are supose to go about getting the keys? cause i refreshed 4 sights on 2 diff pcs and saw nothing.

 

chilltime99

I blew off my wife and kids for this....lol

 

 

still got some luv for mmorpg.com

TheKaizi

I sat here for 2 1/2 hours waiting, no i'm not new to mmo before asshats start saying that shit. i've been follwing for years. This is enough. TWO HOURS. if they were gone in a minute WHY DIDN'T you TELL US!

Dudek28

your full of horse shit

BovinoFR

Where was the link, btw ?

ChromTheGnome

fucking cocksuckers

satora54

So instead of halting it and finding out how to do it the correct way, you decide it's better for fuck everyone over without saying anything. Awesome.

metalgg4

OMFG

Acarter2002

Wow. Just wow. Way to keep thousands of people in the dark for hours then totally fumble the giveaway. Also, how the hell were we supposed to know where the keys were? "Watch the main page for info". Yep, we did that and we got screwed over. 

Jackgo05

i waited... three hours... for this...

good. no im not even mad good.

no srsly wtf

lewdest

2 and a half hours of refreshing for nothing.  Couldn't have given the news any sooner?  No post to twitter, facebook, or the news page?  I did create this account just for this giveaway, but now I see that it was useless to go to this site in the first place.

SquiddyG

spent a good 4 hours refreshing when I could have spent my time doing something worthwhile, masturbating. god dammit 

abahnur

... is your spelling bot dead or...

 

 

edit: sorry i'm just fustrated, thanks for clarification.

Zadeshikal

Boo! Shame on you. I sat here for almost 3 hours refreshing Twitter, FB, news, and giveaways.

Terrant71

Two and a half hours of my life gone.

chilltime99

I don't have a Key...but definitely have a pissed off wife....

I blew her off for this lol

 

 

At least I still have MMORPG.com

posama

?

Exile_Viliry

Well, that was a terrible experience.

shrenko

Aw man, I have been updating mmorpg.com since they released ''more beta keys on way'' post everyday every 5min this week for no reason.. typical me.. guess I have to wait for November then.

Tyr216

Originally posted by gueren717
you assholes

And this is exactly why MMORPG.com should not offer the keys to accounts like this because people are sent here from other sites like mmo-champ and they're just here to leech keys away from the actual members of the MMORPG.com community.