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Not happy with the contest

RattrapRattrap Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 1,599
in The Pub at MMORPG.COM
Yes, well - I didnt win anything. I rarely ever do , so no big news here.



But I must say - I am not so sure how fair contest was.



I , and many others registered for the contest the first day it was anounced , and as many other regulars of mmorpg.com

logged every day.



Yet , yesterday - my participation in contest was canceled - forcing me to reaply -

and reseting my visits to only 1 before the contest result.



This to my knowledge happened to few other people.



I know this was bug. And this things happen.

I know i wouldnt win anything anyhow...



But it does leave bad taste in my mouth.




"Before this battle is over all the world will know that few...stood against many." - King Leonidas

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  • KraptorKraptor Member Posts: 359
    I like mmorpg.coms contests...though probably cause this is the only site where I sometimes win.:) Also this is the only site I know of that holds contests that doesnt say in the fine prints NA only:):) so big thanks for mmorpg.com again:):)
  • warchidwarchid Member Posts: 37
    Originally posted by Kraptor

     know of that holds contests that doesnt say in the fine prints NA only
    and still 90% off those who win are from NA, this is bull .... excuse me, if you look at that list you will see something like 10 or 15 winner's from outside North America , i had enough is the n contest i participate and in each one is the same . If you want my opinion i prefer those Prints NA only at least i know i can't participate me and all the others from outside NA
  • KraptorKraptor Member Posts: 359
    Actually the number is 87(as of now, some still are unclaimed) which is round 32% who won and are outside of NA, not 10-15 and that is not bad at all. i dunno what is your problem at all.
  • MonkDaddyMonkDaddy Member Posts: 35

    I had the same reset issue as well as the original poster also signed up the very first day and i believe it was something like 3 days ago or so it was reset and oddly enough I didnt win anything on the first run either. Oh well, but just wanted the original poster to know that the reset was not as uncommon as you may have thought.

  • SirCagSirCag Member Posts: 26
    Wait you were "kicked" out of contest too? now that indeed sound like something iregular was in place, i had to reaply to and noticed that only buy accidently klicking on contest link yesterday and then i noticed i am  not in tha game yet (i am apsolutely sure that i entered the contest before)..hmm..wondering how many people were kicked out and didn't even notice that they are not in competition.

    And afkors i didnt win anyting..doh ;P

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  • MiNaAuMiNaAu Member Posts: 382
    Yes I got "kicked" out of the contest too and didn't realise until a few days later! I think it was something to do with the website layout changed or the "big crash" thingy I don't know I heard it from someone.
  • abnesherabnesher Member UncommonPosts: 112

    I bet a lot of people didnt get to be part of the random pool, because of the odd reset of contest applications. To be sure i myself checked my participation yesterday and had to reapply...to bad for all the people who didnt, but hey...i probably wouldnt have won anyway

    Not much to do about these technical hiccups, but to congratulate the lucky winners!

    Thx to mmorpg.com for this huge contest!

     

     

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  • KaneKane Member Posts: 780
    Well, I lost my entry until yesterday too. I actually won, however. So I guess it worked out okay for me at least.
  • zensaberzensaber Member UncommonPosts: 787
    I got kicked out to and had to re-sign, that was like a few days ago, i havn't won anything from this site in years
  • derf26derf26 Member Posts: 123
    Kicked out too and had to re-apply, didn't win anything (obviously).

    The one time I did win something it was a beta key that I can only use when beta starts in about half a year, and what's more is the game says the beta will most likely be North America only. Which kinda sucks. Winning something that you can't use.



    Damn you!
  • hanimehanime Member Posts: 34
    Well i was kicked out too and had to re-apply (yesterday) and i just Won something, so you can see there is nothing wrong with it
  • zensaberzensaber Member UncommonPosts: 787
    hrm it seems only us  vets didn't win anything?
  • HarafnirHarafnir Member UncommonPosts: 1,350

    Got kicked out, lost my bonus for being on this site every single day. Guess I will just do like the rest here. Being a loyal visitor will never get the same chances at winning as opening 50 membership accounts and never visit the site once. Especially if they reset the timer and throw all the members out of the contest if they are stupid enough to be on the site when they change the timer.

    Cheating always seem to work better than loyalty

    "This is not a game to be tossed aside lightly.
    It should be thrown with great force"

  • zensaberzensaber Member UncommonPosts: 787
    next contest i'll have to make a new account and enter with that one hehe
  • gadunkgadunk Member UncommonPosts: 164
    I won something  :) noticed the other day when I went to the contest thing that it showed I needed to enter contest and was worried about the log-in every day bonus thing but guess it wasn't a worry since I won.
  • zensaberzensaber Member UncommonPosts: 787
    wha'ja win?
  • gadunkgadunk Member UncommonPosts: 164
    signed copy of Matrix Online...   wonder who it's signed by. Prolly devs just pass a box around to interns and office help to sign all over then out the door it goes hehe
  • zensaberzensaber Member UncommonPosts: 787
    Phil From accounting- don't play it!
  • erinyserinys Member UncommonPosts: 395

    i got kicked and re-applied aswell, couple days later then most :) don't really care about it, i come here for the fun and talking about games, not for winning contests :)

     

  • arokh1984arokh1984 Member Posts: 4
    i got kicked too and didn't realize it,this isn't just fair
  • DookzDookz Member UncommonPosts: 562
    I was also kicked days before the contest ended. I didnt its significance until I read this thread. I thought it was normal and if I had touched it, it would affect my standing on the contest....I was definetly wrong.

    Playing now: Cities: Skyline / Ori and the Blind Forest / Banished

  • SyriSyri Member UncommonPosts: 230
    Originally posted by Kraptor

    I like mmorpg.coms contests...though probably cause this is the only site where I sometimes win.:) Also this is the only site I know of that holds contests that doesnt say in the fine prints NA only:):) so big thanks for mmorpg.com again:):)
    I actually stopped applying for any contests that involve a physical prize, as the zboard i apparently won never made it to me, and i recieved no response to my email querying it. still go for things like beta keys and such though.

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  • MMO_ManMMO_Man Member Posts: 666
    Stop crying you bunch of babies.

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  • ZonaZona Member Posts: 33
    Nothing bothers me more than sore loosers.  You didn't win, get over it! There is no great conspiracy to keep you from winning, there were only so many prizes to start with. I am sure that " I Buy Power" wishes that it had the money to donate a new computer for each one of us, but they don't .... nobody has that kind of money..... EVEN if they did have the money to give everyone on the forums a new computer or some other prize, why whould they want to give it to dumb-ass people who cry foul everytime something doesn't go their way. Pulling that race thing REALLY makes me mad



    HOLY COW, cry and get it the hell over with.


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  • lobeslobes Member UncommonPosts: 127

    As of this writing, there are 507,939 members of MMORPG.com.

    The contest was for 271 prizes.

    Assuming that each person would only be eligible to win one prize, that means only 0.053353% of the userbase would win a prize.

    It seems very plausible, in fact very likely, that there would be few-to-none winners in a particular region that does not constitute the majority of the members.

    Relax, and don't take it too hard. The numbers weren't in your favor.

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