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World of Warcraft: Second Key Drawing Chaos

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  • babdoukalababdoukala Member Posts: 1
    no respect rly 
  • SyntribosSyntribos Member Posts: 2
    Seriously unimpressed.
  • RaapnaapRaapnaap Member UncommonPosts: 455
    That's quite hilarious, good one.
  • shakozshakoz Member UncommonPosts: 13
    Wow, sorry is all that is said for wasting 2.5 hours of peoples time. Over an hour and a half ago you secretly "poked" them in your database and continued to say nothing after that, forums worked fine people were posting but not you. But that's ok sorry somehow brings back lost time and makes everything ok.
  • DashiDMVDashiDMV Member Posts: 362

    This was handled about as well as the spelling in the post.

     

    I guess there's always paying 200 dollars on Ebay or some other auction site since I'm sure that's where 99% of these keys ended up anyways.

  • NecroneusNecroneus Member UncommonPosts: 52
    Truly, assholes.
  • elilego101elilego101 Member Posts: 1

    Wow, I sat on my computer this morning for 3 hours constantly refreshing cause I thought the time frame was during the am. Then i sit here for 3 hours trying to refresh through unforgivable lag and then 30 minutes before it ends i see this!?!?!? You guys are assholes, you didnt even give us a certain place to look. Where were the keys at?

     

  • Tyr216Tyr216 Member UncommonPosts: 168
    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. And they post crap like this? They deserve nothing.

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  • DomaticDomatic Member Posts: 1
    This combined with the fact that it takes 5 minutes to load any webpage just makes me lose all respect i had for this website.
  • Holgar82Holgar82 Member Posts: 1
    Yeah thanks, but next time put it on the GODDAMN HOME PAGE! You fucking idiots.
  • chilltime99chilltime99 Member UncommonPosts: 57
    Originally posted by elilego101

    Wow, I sat on my computer this morning for 3 hours constantly refreshing cause I thought the time frame was during the am. Then i sit here for 3 hours trying to refresh through unforgivable lag and then 30 minutes before it ends i see this!?!?!? You guys are assholes, you didnt even give us a certain place to look. Where were the keys at?

     

    You really do deserve a key

     

    Somebody get this guy a key....

     

     
  • MaxSalMaxSal Member Posts: 1
    great :(
  • HeafstaggHeafstagg Member UncommonPosts: 172

    Jesus, what is with the rage. Man up people.

     

    Anyways, thanks for the apology and explanation.

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  • suthixsuthix Member Posts: 2
    pathetic excuse of an "organization".. my experience on the website was absolutely fine.. easily was loading through pages.. what a joke. My first.. and last time ever visiting this joke of a website
  • ntImpntImp Member Posts: 5
    Originally posted by chilltime99
    Originally posted by Yhaatheth
    Yikes, I feel dumb for refreshing 4 different pages for 2 hours!
     

     

     

     

  • Slapshot1188Slapshot1188 Member LegendaryPosts: 17,586

    Strange...  during this window staff members were posting on forums and locking threads...

    Maybe you couldn't use the news feed but you sure as heck could have posted on the forums...

     

    Only people that would check the OLD site are botters or those that would have had info "leaked" to them. 

     

    I wouldn't even use a beta key (haven't played WoW since vanilla, but this is really fishy.

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  • ulminiaulminia Member Posts: 1

    your server crashed with 2k users online and maybe 10k anon.. wow ..

    heres some tips ...

    memcached its your friend

    16+gb of ram

    have more the 4 cpu's with at least 4 cores 

    and run apachie if using it in worker ...

     

    but really this was a clusterfuck and made alot of people unhappy

  • Breet27Breet27 Member Posts: 1
    3 Hours F5 spaming , Hmm  I'm frustrated :(
  • xmateexmatee Member Posts: 5
    It's 3.30AM here, and you can say only this shit. This is unacceptable. If you had the wonderful idea to post the exact timewindow of the giveaway, you should've thought about the server maintenance... And if you didn't expect this, well, that's fucking ridiculous too....
  • isanghanisanghan Member Posts: 1

    this was prolly the worst executed giveaway in history. Not even a link to where the keys were supposed to be located

  • warriorpoet7warriorpoet7 Member UncommonPosts: 41
    Originally posted by Admin

    Today we held our second beta key handout for World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draeno 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.

    Just ... wow ... 

     

    Its like Congress ... 

  • west715west715 Member UncommonPosts: 11
    You Guys work for blizzard dont you............I am guess you guys just sux!
  • GolbezTheLionGolbezTheLion Member UncommonPosts: 347

    I received a key with the first giveaway.

    However, my girlfriend has been waiting days for this opportunity to get her key, she was online during the aforementioned timeframe, saw nothing posted and as such was unable to acquire a key.

    If you were unable to post the proper way, then you should have posted a news update and delayed the giveaway until you could. Instead you chose to just post it under the old link and let everyone wonder what was going on, while the keys were being snatched up by people who bookmarked the previous link?

    That is one of the poorest judgment calls I've ever heard of, and whoever made that choice should, frankly, be ashamed of themselves. You just willingly slapped a large portion of this site's community directly across the face when you could have done the right thing and delayed it for another day (which wouldn't have been the end of the world and is easily the better of the two options you had).

    Why is this being posted by a generic admin account?

    Who was responsible for this blunder?

    Are excuses supposed to make this acceptable?

    To say that you "dropped the ball" with this giveaway is, imho, a very accurate statement and not in any way an unfair description of what has occurred here.

    Good news though guys! they have 4000 more keys to giveaway to bots and ebay sellers! We can all rest easy.

  • NeolaNeola Member Posts: 4
    :( waited all day long and refreshed the page for like 5 hours
  • GravargGravarg Member UncommonPosts: 3,424
    According to the internet, WoW is the worst mmo ever...funny how offering a beta key nearly crashes a server, huh?
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