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World of Warcraft: Final Warlords of Draenor Beta Sweepstakes!

AdminAdmin Administrator RarePosts: 5,623
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MMORPG.com is very pleased to present this exclusive sweepstakes event! We have partnered with Blizzard Entertainment to give away 900 beta access keys for the new World of Warcraft expansion: Warlords of Draenor!  This event will run from today (July 28) through August 1 @ 9PM EDT.

As with all MMORPG.com sweepstakes, the more days you login to the site, the better your odds of winning!  In this event you earn 1 bonus ticket per day you login (5 max).

Good luck to all!

CLICK HERE TO ENTER THIS SWEEPSTAKES NOW!

 

- MMORPG.COM Staff -

The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive.

Comments

  • aulora99aulora99 Member Posts: 4
    ^I agree with you. I've entered in every sweepstake contest they had and then when I scroll through the names I notice that there are multiple accounts (probably from the same person) that won. The only difference is that one letter is changed, rearranged, or deleted.
     
  • CrusadesCrusades Member Posts: 480
    ^^ Both posters above, guys / gals it's not worth griping over. Every where you go there is an agenda, or someone knows someone, just let it be, rise above it, it's only beta after all.
  • ZariakZariak Member UncommonPosts: 20

    Yes it's only beta, but an attempt at fairness would be good. Yeah I get it, life isn't fair blah, blah.... but a little effort goes a long way. It wouldn't be hard, all accounts need to be 30 days or older to be eligible. With all previous winners need not apply (not sure if this is a standing rule now or not but it should be).

    Maybe this time is my draw!

     

    good luck all..

  • calgarymarccalgarymarc Member Posts: 6
    4th time is the charm!
  • TyrantasTyrantas Member UncommonPosts: 369
    Agreed that there should be some requirements to join such contests, join date or post count, preferably both.
  • EnterTheWombatEnterTheWombat Member UncommonPosts: 112

    I am going to reiterate what I have already mentioned in your previous give aways and to your guys on Twitter: Not putting some kind of "Account creation date" lockout was a massive spit in your loyal members' collective faces.  If not the majority, then a massive % of the previous winners were new accounts or someone's 3rd, 4th or 5th account and it's kind of bullshit.

     I only play the game off and on but this was pretty much botched from the word go and only made slightly less so by doing the weekly give aways.  I hope more of you that actually play the game full time get rewarded this last time.

  • BigdaddyxBigdaddyx Member UncommonPosts: 2,039

    Here i go for the third time.

    *fingers crossed*

  • BizkitNLBizkitNL Member RarePosts: 2,546
    Originally posted by Tyrantas
    Agreed that there should be some requirements to join such contests, join date or post count, preferably both.

    Yes, yes indeed. The contest should only include people that joined in 2002 or before.

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  • kevinffmkevinffm Member Posts: 4
    How much keys were given out overall? 4000?
  • AdminAdmin Administrator RarePosts: 5,623

    5000 keys were give to us by Blizzard.  We did two 500 key "handouts" that didn't go well given the massive demand.  We have completed three sweeps of 1000 keys and this last one is for 900.  We had to reserve 100 keys for customer service stuff.  At least 50 of these will be left over and we will probably let Mike, or CM do something in the forums to give out the remainder.

    As for dupe accounts, etc.  We have done all we can.  We use IP filtering and other methods to detect dupe accounts or open proxies.    We also look over the list before it goes live (after the first one that had an obvious dupe).

    We are not going to limit the event to "vet" accounts - that is a hard line to draw in the sand and we want to respect our legacy and new members alike.

    Also note that we are the only site I know of that is showing you the users that won - I would be willing to bet that no other site is able to completely filter out all bots and bogus entries, etc.  We are doing our best I assure you.

    Good luck all!

    - MMORPG.COM Staff -

    The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive.

  • MarknMarkn Member UncommonPosts: 308
    Originally posted by Admin

    5000 keys were give to us by Blizzard.  We did two 500 key "handouts" that didn't go well given the massive demand.  We have completed three sweeps of 1000 keys and this last one is for 900.  We had to reserve 100 keys for customer service stuff.  At least 50 of these will be left over and we will probably let Mike, or CM do something in the forums to give out the remainder.

    As for dupe accounts, etc.  We have done all we can.  We use IP filtering and other methods to detect dupe accounts or open proxies.    We also look over the list before it goes live (after the first one that had an obvious dupe).

    We are not going to limit the event to "vet" accounts - that is a hard line to draw in the sand and we want to respect our legacy and new members alike.

    Also note that we are the only site I know of that is showing you the users that won - I would be willing to bet that no other site is able to completely filter out all bots and bogus entries, etc.  We are doing our best I assure you.

    Good luck all!

    You limit it to accounts created before the posting of the giveaway.

  • versulasversulas Member UncommonPosts: 288
    Originally posted by calgarymarc
    4th time is the charm!

     

  • Dreamo84Dreamo84 Member UncommonPosts: 3,713
    Guys, the truth is MMORPG.com is always looking for new users. Giveaways like this are part of that ongoing promotion to get new users. Making giveaways for existing accounts only completely ruins any chance of them gaining new users from a giveaway.

    Now you can say "well these new people just sign up for a giveaway and that's it". That might be true but if even one person finds the site BECAUSE of the giveaway and then sticks around after it's worth it for them.

    If you truly enjoy the site and the content it offers you would understand this and want them to increase their user base. I am on this site constantly and haven't gotten a key but I completely understand.

    At least they aren't offering a paid "premium" membership and giving the keys only to those users like some other sites have done with giveaways...

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  • umcorianumcorian Member UncommonPosts: 519

    Whoops. Wrong thread. 

  • expressoexpresso Member UncommonPosts: 2,218
    I guess we're not entitled to anything on this site, not like we pay a subscription to be members... oh crap... erm.... forget everything I just said... Shazbot! Shazbot! Shazbot!
  • wardem0nwardem0n Member Posts: 14
    Fun facts they had 900 keys to give out 30+ of those keys went to Latham , ny
  • AreWeLiveAreWeLive Member UncommonPosts: 202
    Originally posted by wardem0n
    Fun facts they had 900 keys to give out 30+ of those keys went to Latham , ny

      

     LoL, I have never heard of Latham,NY till today, guess there are a lot of ppl there that like to go to this site =)

     Filters are hard to do, I donno where "the great white north,On,Canada" is or  "?????. China", I also do not know how people from countries that can not use the keys win, but like i said, filters are hard to do, you think you have them all covered then new holes pop up.

     I was just hoping a few of my friends won a key so i could play with them. 

  • Rolexus1Rolexus1 Member Posts: 2
    Fun fact: a guy from stockholm United kingdom won (Stockholm is a city in sweden) and our lovley Gilbert.dk won again! yay
  • flockibaerflockibaer Member Posts: 1
    No Key again, i dont know ho many People won multiple keys with multiple Accounts :( so sad :((
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