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Post by Term @ 11:06am 14/10/04 | 190 Comments
As of last night, our 150 lucky winners’ details had been sent to Vivendi Universal – so it hopefully won’t be too long before the selected crew receive notification from VUG regarding their login details. Update: Accounts are arriving on peoples emails as we speak, please be sure to activate your account as SOON as possible.

Thanks to all the entrants who participated – over a thousand people fired off their thoughts as to what they would be in Azeroth. Interestingly, it seems many people confused “25 words or less” with “lengthy diatribe extending past a paragraph”. Entries that were a few words over weren’t that bad, but those of you who wrote your life story – pay attention next time!

There were some truly class entries, so much so that we decided to put some of the more… interesting… ones up here. The names have been omitted to protect the innocent, but the spelling and punctation (or lack thereof) has been left in, just for giggles. As these entries have been taken from the winners list – if you see your entry up here, you’re one of the top 150! If you don’t see your entry here, fret not, just be patient as Vivendi does their thing.

For a look at some of the entries, both good and BAD, check out our little the WoW Closed beta competition in review feature












Latest Comments
Sorrow
Posted 11:19am 14/10/04
congrats to those who got it.

heh i wish i was better a creative thinking, o well there is only like 25 there, maybe i still go a chance :P

Mease
Posted 11:25am 14/10/04
WOOOOOOTTTT I GOT IN! I GOT IN IIIII GGGGOOOOOOOT IN~!!!! SO HAPPY! THX BLIZ/VIVENDI AND GAMEARENA... AND. .... . errr god!!!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D
Term
Posted 11:29am 14/10/04
gamearena?
deep
Posted 11:36am 14/10/04
haha gamearena..
foSho
Posted 11:38am 14/10/04
for htose that got it, you better hurry ... wont be able ot activate a closed beta account after friday..

"If you have a beta key that you have not yet activated, we strongly recommend you do so before Friday. You will be unable to create a closed beta account once we deactivate these services." - Caydiem on 10/13/04
Sorrow
Posted 11:50am 14/10/04
guess it depends if vivendi have actually sent them out yet...
Masked Muffin
Posted 12:08pm 14/10/04
So basically, if it didnt contain "Queer for the straight ", references to nudity or the impression that you need to use the Beta instead of anger management counseling, you probably didn't get in.

Oh, and it helps if the jokes were so blatantly plain that you could be more suprised by punching yourself in the colon.
Mystery
Posted 12:17pm 14/10/04
Here i was thinking that i had to keep it under 25 words, yet the majority of the winners went well over...Be more specific with the rules next time, a little phrase saying "The 25 words or less is just a rough guide and is allowed to be broken" would be nice.
Dave
Posted 12:20pm 14/10/04
i got in ;]
Masked Muffin
Posted 12:54pm 14/10/04
Under what tag?

Gay, Nude or Aggresive?
Masked Muffin
Posted 12:55pm 14/10/04
What was yours?

Gay, Nude or Aggresive?
aspect
Posted 01:07pm 14/10/04
can anyone get theirs to start downloading? mines sat on calculating time left for ages
Mah'Keth
Posted 01:24pm 14/10/04
Yay i got in and I got quoted *sniff* "I'm sew happeh"...now I have to wait to get home from work to start playing :\
Neurosis
Posted 01:35pm 14/10/04
=(

Great sadness.

Oh well.
Masked Muffin
Posted 02:38pm 14/10/04
I actually had a friend over who isn't planning on playing and he put in a "Queer Eye" one, i thought "Man like 100 people will do that, im going to just go with a proper type of Role Play character not some pansyass suckup job with a crap ambition to be a nude night elf, etc..."

So no doub't he will get in and i won't because i didn't pretend to be either gay or naked, maybe if i had of done both Ausgamers would have given me a full time job...
Snipey the Sniper Man
Posted 03:18pm 14/10/04
After reading winning entries such as these

"I'd like to get in this beta because my boyfriend is dying to play this game and ill use it to get favours from him."

and

"Im the immortal newbie"

I would have had a better chance just posted something like "Its my birthday tomorrow and noone has got me any presents *sniffle*"

Sad but true =\

Trying to be creative/funny in 25 words is no easy task :P
foSho
Posted 03:21pm 14/10/04
i wrote out about 4 different things but kept going over 25, ended up making mine spot on 25, with something kidna boring i guess :)

seeing as the rule was, 25 words or less, why were 25+ ones even considered? :|

Snipey the Sniper Man
Posted 03:23pm 14/10/04
well yesterday it was my birthday tomorrow today its my birthday :P
Chrono
Posted 04:03pm 14/10/04
I agree with soup nazi, I felt so limited at 25 which i abided, if i had known i could just slurry out a 2 paragraph life story, I would have had a much better chance, as would alot of other people.....
Snipey the Sniper Man
Posted 04:04pm 14/10/04
Ahh well lads :P no use wingin now, open beta not too far away hopefully
Chrono
Posted 04:09pm 14/10/04
I feel i have a distinct right to winge, im a pregnant mother (5 months) with 2 kids and i have needs, why should i have to sit back and wait for the open beta while ungreatful, rude teenages take all the accounts.

Its just plain unjust
X i n e n
Posted 04:56pm 14/10/04
Yeah honestly I don't get it :( Spent ages coming up with my entry to make it funny and at/under 25 words thought it would be a shoe in. Think it went something like this:

"I WiSH toO joIN THE GREAT GNOMISH REVOLUTION!!! To Kill tall UGLY pEOple They CaLL "Tauron"!! Cover thy KnEECAPS!!! THE REVOLUTION IS COMING!"

Oh well, i guess gnomish propaganda doesn't make the cut =/
Snipey the Sniper Man
Posted 05:20pm 14/10/04
post count meands diddly imo, its like saying "ive eaten 5000 eggs, therefore my opinion is more valid than yours"
Snipey the Sniper Man
Posted 05:28pm 14/10/04
Then he may have some ground to stand on =], but unless its an opinion on "the art of posting" or "etiquette of posting" or some crap postcount really means diddly on a subject such as this :P

Neurosis
Posted 05:37pm 14/10/04
Being beaten by some lame joke about Night Elves made me choke.

But I can't disagree with the "I'm the immortal newbie." Pullitzer prize material.

It does not pander, it's more a personal statement than a cry for attention. To the point with no cluttering details to soften its impact. Possibly the literary masterpiece of the age. Or at least that 24 hours
Snipey the Sniper Man
Posted 05:42pm 14/10/04
hehe careful there Neurosis, teetering on the brink of bringing the webserver down with sarcasam overload
X i n e n
Posted 05:48pm 14/10/04
Heh, i think most people made the mistake of making popular MMORPG jokes that non mmo players would't understand =/


last edited by X i n e n at 17:48:53 14/Oct/04
Snipey the Sniper Man
Posted 05:55pm 14/10/04
Heh i did one most guys could relate to, well guys who have been in a relationship for quite a while anyways

"Dag was undead, problem was, so was his wife
Neverending Nagging!
Dag had a quest, to just become plain dead.
Peace woudl be his again!"

had some good ideas to flesh it out but held back and kept myself at 25 words.

Trying to be creative/funny AND say what your characters abition would be in 25 words is really pretty hard :P
Orphan
Posted 05:57pm 14/10/04
Ugh.... I found out about the beta comp 12 min before 9pm.... Sooo my already low creativity went to a score of zero. Why must I be kept outta the beta. I bet its cause I would be to good.I've tryed to get in 2 times through blizz even applied for the euro one and entered numorous competitions but NO still don't get in.... Why do you hate me blizz why!?
Neurosis
Posted 07:03pm 14/10/04
I hope you die a horrible, horrible death and will your account to me, HERMITech.
Dave
Posted 07:22pm 14/10/04
Woot I got In!
I wrote me an Algorithm describing the logic of exploring and killing monsters.

Unfourtuently My HSC starts in like 4 days, so no WoW for the next 3 weeks till thats over, I hope the Beta last at least a few more weeks then that.
Neurosis
Posted 08:29pm 14/10/04
"Unfourtuently My HSC starts in like 4 days, so no WoW for the next 3 weeks till thats over, I hope the Beta last at least a few more weeks then that."

Dude, open beta starts in like a week. I'm quite serious.

What a waste!

Mail me your account k. :)
Masked Muffin
Posted 08:32pm 14/10/04
Well, after much thought, i came up with a "Second Chance" Entry by combining what seems to be winning entries...

Ahem

I plan to start a Strip Join known as "The Zug Zug Club" where middle aged men can play as female Night Elves and dance nude all day much to the delight of many, many more middle aged men who frequent the club and got into the beta because they found Lineage 2 too "Hardcore", also, the Zug Zug Club will offer a crack team of Sociopathic homosexuals who dispense fashion advice to Straight Orcs and Undead men, who in return teach them to master the art of Fishing.

Note that astute readers would have allready realised i will and truly cleared the 25 word limit :)

If that doesn't do it then i dont know what will
Mease
Posted 10:03pm 14/10/04
open beta wont be till a couple weeks, blizz have stated they have a few more patches till open beta, probably 1 more patch (paladin and hunter talents) then open beta will nerf them all to make them equal, so in a couple weeks...
slowly chugging my download along @ 15kbs... damn telstra cable, hurry up!
foSho
Posted 10:16pm 14/10/04
the stress test was only for US aswell, that ddint stop loads of aussies playing it..
Neurosis
Posted 11:02pm 14/10/04
Any bids for my account?

I will give you one MEEELLLIIOONN dollars for your account. (Actually, added to ICQ ;p)

But, open beta is only going to be in a week or so. I can't see two weeks, the release date which has been going around is Nov 15, and you'd expect an open beta of about 3 weeks or so, since it'll obviously be longer than stress test.

Plus, Hunter talents are complete internally, and Pal ones are nearing completion (I don't have time to track down the Blizzard posts but take my word), so I reckon a week.

Edit: Also, in the last patch they added a "Create account" to the client, which points to a currently non-existant http://signup.worldofwarcraft.com, plus they're taking down the closed signup servers this weekend... Pretty convincing evidence.

Just the one more patch.

last edited by Neurosis at 23:02:04 14/Oct/04

last edited by Neurosis at 23:02:55 14/Oct/04
]XaartaX[
Posted 03:29am 15/10/04
The open beta including Australia as well? Everything Blizzard says looks otherwise:
"We are happy to announce that we will soon be accepting applicants for the World of Warcraft® Open Beta Test for North America."
They say that more than once.
Neurosis
Posted 10:54am 15/10/04
People who have been in contact with VU in Australia say that Aus/NZ people will be allowed into the Open Beta phase... And if you're not officially allowed in, is using a proxy really that hard?
Haklin
Posted 11:22am 15/10/04
i finally passed my java exam...

WOOOOOOTTTT I GOT IN! I GOT IN IIIII GGGGOOOOOOOT IN~!!!! SO HAPPY! THX BLIZ/VIVENDI AND GAMEARENA... AND. .... . errr god!!!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D


i really hate people that reference this place as GameArena

I won the Hulk from AusGamers..and its purrrtier than WoW(im just really lying but my gf2 and 56k would die on WoW)
Neurosis
Posted 11:46am 15/10/04
I can't see them testing payment methods in an open beta. Just illogical, and I've never seen another company do that...
br0d
Posted 01:51pm 15/10/04
Holy crap I got in.

Hopefully blizz won't delete us all for putting fake address details on the account creation page, seeing as the choices are US and Canada only.
Fireslide
Posted 05:55pm 15/10/04
I got one, typically after downloading 2.7gb as fast as I could on DSL . .. the servers are down for the weekend.
Bruticus
Posted 11:51am 16/10/04
Definately, I idle in a chan with at least 10 closed beta players and I know they aren't in your guild. Some got in via a WC3 comp, others by being in the top3 in stress test, among other ways.
jacknife
Posted 06:32pm 18/10/04
Bummer... I got in but wasn't home to set up the account before they turned off the creation page.

That sucks.
br0d
Posted 11:44am 29/10/04
And...15 days later, the closed beta test comes to an end. Typical - aussies get screwed over again.
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