World of Warcraft: Second Key Drawing Chaos

Crusades

Hey stuff happens people cut them some slack.

ekrik

crying for my POOR network quality and BAD website load capacity.

Ogyman

There's nothing more that could be said, as we could all tell by the dissatisfaction and all the hatred shown towards this bad handled giveaway...

It will take time to restore the credibility and faith to MMORPG after this scenario. Sorry Bill, but I think you should accept the blame and take the credit yourself as the "man" of the website.

Gilawen

Damn ... bad luck everywhere ..but it would have been really nice if the information would have come earlier... I understand that you have to discuss how to handle this but ..well ..

good night from Germany

canhascow

Originally posted by RLWD

Originally posted by canhascow

Originally posted by EzraWoW
Atleast they are giving out 4000 more keys. Let's hope the bots doesn't steal all the keys from the real WoW fans.

Shame they said it would be a "draw" so it's pretty much going to go to bots who spam accounts. 

Pretty much the exact same thing that happened today will happen again, Just on a larger scale.

 

Yep.

They really need to prevent "duplicate/fabricated/fake" accounts from participating somehow or its going to be 1000x times worse.

Issue is given how easy it is to inject scripts into Chrome you can basically botnet multiple accounts spamming out everyone else so that they have a better chance of getting keys, This happened today. 

It's sad knowing that 80% of the keys will be on ebay as we speak.

 

 

Ogyman

Originally posted by wesjr
Blizzard should take the other 4k back.

Just as I stated on one of my previous posts!

Even though they are partner with the MMORPG, I think they should take the rest of the keys and distribute them through Battlenet instead. At least the contest would've been manged correctly that way...

scarfull

any one that has a date that is 6 or 7 /14 needs to stfu!

Vcoty10

for the ppl saying stuff happens, yes it does but when it comes down to a wana-be proffesional site. you dont fuck up and say o lets continue screwing up and do it the wrong way. and then at the end say we fucked up and then we knew it and fucked up on purpose. thx for coming see u again next week.

 

it would have been better and less reason to be pissed if they did what they said and did updates, post pone, or even make up for there mistake. hell even stating the post location b4 hand would have made all the ppl here happier

Necroneus

Ohhh, too chaos and non-moderator response... In my land we say "quiet like whores".

Vcoty10

for the ppl that made there account b4 july, pls stfu u clearly know how this site works and yet u still complain. i am a new account and so far have had a terrible exp as a 1st time user.

 

enjoy

Skirra

Thanks for the update, it was chaos earlier and I was confused on where the keys were being posted, I was refreshing the news page haha.  Hope I can snag one in the sweepstakes.

DarLorkar

They sure do mouth off a lot for people that will never use the site nor contribute to the site.

 

Why these give away's are such a PITA to the regulars of sites like this.  You get these types, and do your regular contributors such a disservice into the bargain.

 

 

macromastia

Originally posted by Admin

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.

Even though your first batch went "lightning fast"? No idea? Even after all the comments from users and threads made from the first give-a-way? Really? Just so you guys know then...WoW is the biggest MMO out there and guess what...it might bring you some traffic! Sorry if I seem skeptical but it;s a little ridiculous if you don't know that something like this would lock your server down lol....Just ask any website affiliated with WoW lol including Blizzard!!! To be honest you would have been better not posting a time frame and just leaving it to a particular day maybe and then MAYBE you could have done the right thing and ANNOUNCED the freaking give-a-way on your home page....I mean really...REALLY? Hell if it was my site I wouldn't have even gave them out if I was having that much trouble and just made a post to let peeps know its gonna be in a day and not in a 3 hr frame. But thats just me and what do I know

You definitely set yourself up for a lose lose situation but after you realised you did you would have been better off and saving face by just postponing the give-a-way till the next day with no time frame but just POSTING it on your MAIN page instead! But then again, what the hell do I know.

Frequently

How do we enter the new giveaway?

pit101

But wow is dead..

Lol right.

Feonixo

Haha, oh well.. life's a bitch. This shows how popular WoW still is, even with all the people saying it sucks. 

lionzheartz

Very disappointing...  One of the worse ways to hold a giveaway.  COMMUNICATION of how to get a key could have been better since most people on here were not sure how to access one.  Life is a bitch.  

Vaterex

As a long term follower of this website, I am very disappointed in this matter. The writing staff is very unprofessional, the website admin is a joke and over all quality of the site has gone down hill so much since I first joined. I don't post a lot but I did enjoy the beta key giveaways and even won some physical items back when they actually gave away hard copies of  games. I will no longer support this site and I think it would be smart for other community members and game corporations to withdraw their mutual support as well. I know you can care less about me as a single member of the mmorpg.com community and will most likely not even read this at all but I had to put my anger into a constructive post vs. a blunt anger flame post.

disi123

very bad system of distribution, it is obvious it will fail every time and leave a lot of people frustrated, were you trying to sell 3 hours of advertisements to people spamming f5?

Dragon5layer83

I was actually 1 of the lucky few to get a key I sat here since 1 hr before the contest started and had 4 different pages finaly found the right page took ages for the site to load tho man kept getting the  message 

MMORPG.COM is down for maintenance

Sorry for the inconvenience but we are currently down for maintenance.
Please try again in an hour. Thank you!

 

kept trying and it loaded 

 

kokoa123

I want a beta

kraevyn196054

Don't know why Blizzard doesn't just give the keys away to people who have opted in through their Battle net accounts.Seems like a better way to do this.

Utinni

Reading that people canceled plans to be on during window to spam F5 just made my day. 

Kyleran

The desperation of people trying to get these keys is astonishing, and so is the amount of anger and disappointment for failure.

TheBlackWolf

I've been on this site for a long time, and usually mmorpg.com handles key give-aways really well, this was uh, the opposite, i cant really sympathize with the people who made accounts here just today to try and get one, but i can sympathize with anyone whos upset over how this was handled(IE, it -wasn't- handled).  To post them under the old link with no word, then knowing your site is getting crushed by people who don't know they're all gone to just let them keep wasting their time, well thats just shitty. And also, all the people commenting on how they said they didn't see this coming, again, yea right mmorpg.com, you didn't see a WoW beta key giveaway causing high demand coming, sorry, but this isn't the beta for wow classic release when that excuse could have flown, you knew damn well so that is a croc of shit.  I give not 1 shit if i get banned for this post, i only come here for the news anyway and i can get that other places now.