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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
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Posted 11:19am 14/10/04
heh i wish i was better a creative thinking, o well there is only like 25 there, maybe i still go a chance :P
Posted 11:25am 14/10/04
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Posted 11:38am 14/10/04
"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
Posted 11:50am 14/10/04
Posted 12:08pm 14/10/04
Oh, and it helps if the jokes were so blatantly plain that you could be more suprised by punching yourself in the colon.
Posted 12:17pm 14/10/04
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Posted 12:54pm 14/10/04
Gay, Nude or Aggresive?
Posted 12:55pm 14/10/04
Gay, Nude or Aggresive?
Posted 01:07pm 14/10/04
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Posted 01:35pm 14/10/04
Great sadness.
Oh well.
Posted 02:38pm 14/10/04
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...
Posted 03:18pm 14/10/04
"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
Posted 03:21pm 14/10/04
seeing as the rule was, 25 words or less, why were 25+ ones even considered? :|
Posted 03:23pm 14/10/04
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Posted 04:09pm 14/10/04
Its just plain unjust
Posted 04:56pm 14/10/04
"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 =/
Posted 05:20pm 14/10/04
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Posted 05:37pm 14/10/04
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
Posted 05:42pm 14/10/04
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Posted 05:55pm 14/10/04
"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
Posted 05:57pm 14/10/04
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Posted 07:22pm 14/10/04
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.
Posted 08:29pm 14/10/04
Dude, open beta starts in like a week. I'm quite serious.
What a waste!
Mail me your account k. :)
Posted 08:32pm 14/10/04
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
Posted 10:03pm 14/10/04
slowly chugging my download along @ 15kbs... damn telstra cable, hurry up!
Posted 10:16pm 14/10/04
Posted 11:02pm 14/10/04
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.
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Posted 03:29am 15/10/04
"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.
Posted 10:54am 15/10/04
Posted 11:22am 15/10/04
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)
Posted 11:46am 15/10/04
Posted 01:51pm 15/10/04
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.
Posted 05:55pm 15/10/04
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Posted 06:32pm 18/10/04
That sucks.
Posted 11:44am 29/10/04