The winning entries will are not based on the quality of a post, but rather the post number itself. We understand that not everybody is a great writer and we wanted to keep the contest fair and balanced by giving away the prizes in a lottery style drawing using a randomizer.
With that being said, let's get on with the list of all 20 lucky winners!
- Post #19 - XXLaw
- Post #28 - Elyseon
- Post #33 - gamma11
- Post #42 - Visko
- Post #49 - mgcemir
- Post #68 - Murderface
- Post #88 - InstantLite
- Post #94 - yoshanity
- Post #105 - Corpse.Explosion
- Post #109 - Eldius
- Post #113 - Red_Rain
- Post #131 - Siaynoq
- Post #155 - Swindley
- Post #189 - jittabug
- Post #242 - Feralbunny
- Post #250 - Act_VI
- Post #264 - Moo Clown
- Post #273 - VoXorb
- Post #287 - Necrojester
- Post #298 - Aejis
Thanks again to all who entered, and congrats to our lucky winners! And for those of you who didn't win, don't worry... we have more contests coming soon!
You see we should cut the utter bull shiznizzle and just be happy we were in a contest even if it was a small one. I love you guys this is now my homepage
I'm not going to complain about who won, but a random drawing isn't as fair as it seems, lots of people probably made duplicate accounts and posted on each account, I wish I would have done that now, but I thought the posts were actually gonna be read :\
Can't wait for the prizes!
P.S. the first line reads "There were a lot of great suggestions in our recent WWI Card Tyrael Pet Contest and Bashiok will be forwarded to the Diablo 3 team via Bashiok."
I don't think you mean we're forwarding Bashiok to the D3 team through himself. =D The first Bashiok should probably be replaced with "they."
but yeah congrats to the winners again, i can understand it would take 20+ people to read thru the 250+ posts made and then to rule out majority and pick a top 20.. they got shit to do. i hope my idea along with everyone elses gets sent and hope to see if anything i said makes it in there.
Pointless rant. There were around 308 entries. It is nigh impossible to read them all and pick which were best, then narrow them down to 20 winners.
As for 20 identical posts, we are not sending the 20 only. We are sending most of them 307 submissions.
I met Bashiok in Paris. He reads diablofans boards.
If I had originally said it would be random, people would have created multiple accounts to raise their chances to win -- which could have resulted in a lot of people getting banned since that's against the forum rules/guidelines. I have seen on the moderation private forums a lot of cases of people who have gotten banned for that. Moderators do investigate multiple accounts zealously.
Stick around and join in on some more discussions. You never know what could happen.
Also, if any of you don't want the beta key I would REALLY like it. Please if you don't want to use it (or give it to someone) give me a shout.
Grats on this site doing a mediocre job. I was a big fan of this site. Calling a drawing a contest is a farce. Now you're razzing the people who actually cared. The only thing this site ever had going for it was squatting on Blizzard's IP.
You are underestimating Blizzard's resources.
This contest i believe was handled badly, but hey thats just me
Next time these contests should only involve the current members.
Although, it would just take a few hours to half a day of someone devoted to it. I've read through forum topics this big in a few hours, and picking out the best wouldn't have been a problem (since most of the people broke the rules, and all you need to do is mark down the good ones that follow the rules, then go back to those later to narrow them down to 20)
I'm glad to see the person who put so much effort into the post (and even drew concepts) won. S/he obviously put a lot of work into it.
Me too, but they won randomly. They should have won on the merits of their work, not on a random drawing that was supposed to be a contest. They should have won on that great post. Others should have won on their great posts. Instead others who just registered with 1-2 posts won with pitiful contributions.
I'm hoping that they didn't just get bored and decide to do a randomizer instead of reading through all them.