ive been trying to get one since this thing started, ive had 6 hours of sleep in the past 3 days (cause im a fool and want to hit every time window on all the giveaways) its starting to take a toll on me lol and im starting too feel the side affects from not enough sleep. but i just feel that i have no luck for these types of things, it really broke my heart when i stayed up till 3am to get into the dbd3 giveaway, then after that i had been refreshing facebook and twitter waiting for a question, i was a little late on the twitter. but this face book one wants to taunt me and not post a question in forever then whenever i get up grab my remote turn tv on sit down refresh facebook and the question had already been given and the winners posted....T_T saddest 3 days of my life now im going to bed and sleeping till d3 release date.
The contest on this site, D3sanc and blizzplanet don't require you to log on at odd times.
I feel ya bro but dont kill yourself over the beta lol. From what I hear your gonna get bored after you run through it a million times because it only takes like 45 mins to complete. Hopefully we atleast get a release date soon..
it indeed is very sad, Diablo 3 will sell probably twice as much as Sc2 did on Day one. SO about 4 million copies if not more...
And you're telling me they can't give us all a silly 7 hours of content demo? Not to mention they pushed the game back and back and back... they should an Open beta as an apology or something....
And who is going to pay for servers/maintenance that can handle millions of players at once? you? this is a beta, not a demo, they are doing whats best for the game at the moment, this is called a CLOSED public beta for a reason.
The contests aren't really designed for people that have a life, have to work all day, or have kids. My job doesn't allow me to sit and stare at a twitter page, facebook page, or my phone waiting to type in an answer. I wouldn't say it isn't fair, but I'm most likely not getting a key. If I could shut everyone and everything out just to focus on these contests, I probably would lol. I would also probably go insane. I think the worst thing though is that I saw someone mention winning a key from both Forcestrategy and D3DB. Some people are just lucky I guess.
And while I was reading these post's about all of the hard luck sob stories FB just posted another question 1 min before I checked and there was 90 post already. The silver lining in all this is that I don't feel too bad as there is a lot of people keeping me company in the no win situation department. At least I am not a die hard fanatic and I am only trying to win out of my own amusement, that is the one peaceful factor that I have is if I win I win but have consolidated myself that I won't so therefore no big deal. Just hope that there will be at least one more big wave of invites via opt in going out........nah probably not.
I've been h(a)unting these beta key giveaways as if they were lambs to a slaughter.
Registered at d3db, and went haywire on the F5 key until i got bored and rather got a refresh script randomly refreshing every now and then. (yeah i know, but that contest is almost as retarded as the next one.)
reddit.com's diablo contest was kinda fun and easy to begin with. They gave out random keys whenever someone died in their stream, and was connected to their IRC channel when they were streaming. Needless to say, that giveaway ended after like 2 hours.
the IRC only contest was fun when they also did random giveaways there aswell. When they started doing the lore quiz, it ended up being who ever studied "book of cain" most, or were able to google + copy/paste the fastest. and seriously, it took 40 of them 0.5 seconds to answer. gave up on that quite quickly aswell.
So after 3 days now, im in the "fuck you blizzard" mood.
To be honest here, giving out 200k beta keys wont change anything. THey are still late for release. and it probably will be released last tuesday of Q2. And here we are, being scoundrels over the interwebs, desperately trying to get a key - while the developers are clapping their hands saying "retards!"
While I am a dedicated player of the diable franchise and I am eagerly awaiting D3 to be released, I figure that when i get one i get one if i do. I work too hard going to school and working full time to completely live on these sites.Dont get me wrong I would love the chance to help improve and refine what will likely be the third computer game I have ever purchased as well as the only game i purchase on both pc and console, however i simply do not have the time to piss an moan about it all day everyday. I love diablo and appreciate all of blizzards hard work and even if i never see a beta key I hope that they are able to build the game to a level that will compete with the depth and fun that made the first two games soo adictive.
I gave up on any contest which requires speed and constant attention or pure luck. Only luck contest i agree with are those "random picks from registred users" like forcestrategy has.
Blizzard screwed this.
Fansites screwed this.
Ppl are getting angry and starting to troll and hate everybody.
gg sigh
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If it were several months ago, I would be making three or four accounts on Diablofans and making arbitrary, overdone topics just to try and fish a beta key. I would be on facebook constant refreshing for hours on end. Unfortunately my excitement towards beta has dwindled significantly. I would still love to get in, but I am not willing to go to such great lengths. I will continue posting if I have something productive to say, disregard the sentence requirement for the beta key contest, and whatever happens, happens.
Obviously I came around here to get my beta key, but I've been conveniently surprised by how cool this community is. At the very least it's a lot more active than the other one I was in and most of the discussions remain pretty civil and intelligent. So even if I don't get my beta, it's nice to find a nice alternative where I can nerd out about Diablo 3.
I agree with this, i came here to get beta too, but honestly i appreciate having people around with similar interests and sharing information and laughs with. D3 will come out and when it does i will still be active in the community of people who are not too different then I.
I quit these contests when I found 200+ answers after 3 mins the question was posted on FB.
You know what. I'll do more useful stuff 'till june. F*ck twit and FB. There are crazy ppl F5'ing the pages day and night. That's simply stupid.
I'll just check my e-mail once every 2 or 3 days and that's it.
I too entered all contests I could find to win a beta key, I watched 6 hours of Reddit stream, registered to bunch of sites(can't even remember how many), woke up at weird hours to surf some of 'em etc. But overall most of those contests were fun! And the main reason I do all that stuff is that. I found myself a nice IRC diablo channel, this forum(which contains much less whiners than blizzard forums) and a lot more thanks to those contests. Yes, most likely I won't get a key, but if you try to have fun instead of relentlessly going after a key, you might find yourself having fun instead of crying in forums
Dude... losing sleep and planning your life around a beta key is not remotely healthy. If you get in awesome!! Congratulations!! If not just know that when you do play you'll have a complete game there ready to go. I'd much prefer that over a 30 minute long beta in the long run.
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needless to say they didn't give it to me.
god I feel like an idiot.
In my Opinion they need to give out many more keys if they are stresstesting. The real stress test will start in 1 month maybe 1½ i guess.
It is also a good promotion to give out those keys.
Registered at d3db, and went haywire on the F5 key until i got bored and rather got a refresh script randomly refreshing every now and then. (yeah i know, but that contest is almost as retarded as the next one.)
reddit.com's diablo contest was kinda fun and easy to begin with. They gave out random keys whenever someone died in their stream, and was connected to their IRC channel when they were streaming. Needless to say, that giveaway ended after like 2 hours.
the IRC only contest was fun when they also did random giveaways there aswell. When they started doing the lore quiz, it ended up being who ever studied "book of cain" most, or were able to google + copy/paste the fastest. and seriously, it took 40 of them 0.5 seconds to answer. gave up on that quite quickly aswell.
So after 3 days now, im in the "fuck you blizzard" mood.
To be honest here, giving out 200k beta keys wont change anything. THey are still late for release. and it probably will be released last tuesday of Q2. And here we are, being scoundrels over the interwebs, desperately trying to get a key - while the developers are clapping their hands saying "retards!"
Blizzard screwed this.
Fansites screwed this.
Ppl are getting angry and starting to troll and hate everybody.
gg sigh
A QUADRILLION MAGIC FIND is worthless if you can't kill shit!
You know what. I'll do more useful stuff 'till june. F*ck twit and FB. There are crazy ppl F5'ing the pages day and night. That's simply stupid.
I'll just check my e-mail once every 2 or 3 days and that's it.