Ok my first contest from the blog and I failed. I had 9 people (just 9) that applied said they wanted in.
I picked a winner and ooops FAIL ...the winner that was chosen left me no way to contact them ..I asked they contact me ......annnnnd nothing ...sheesh!
So I go through the list of the others that wanted in ONLY one person had a contact and he had already gotten the code.
SOOOOOO
I have a code ...available to the next person who emails me their in game pilot name and email address. I will post the winners name and I hope one day to be able to play with or against them!
This won't happen next time. I have a virtual hat website to do the drawing and will require a mwo user name and email address!
The winner of the PC Gamer skin and bobblehead. I tried to make this as fair as possible.
DIXBEE I will be sending you an email with the code! Actually I need an email address from you. If I do not hear from you in a couple of days I will pass the code to someone else.
I am very grateful to all of you reading my blog and will keep posting new things as I get them and hope to hold more contest.
Wow ... I mean we all knew it was happening at some point. Everthing I had read indicated that it was happening on Oct 16th; however, all the people I talked to in voice chat were like "No way, NO WAY will they open beta in the next month or even by the end of the year".
Timeline:
September 21st: PC Gamer cover announced with in game mech skin and bobblehead
October 3rd: NDA dropped and "Take Your Best Shot" contest announced
October 9th: CryEngine upgrade and new trial mech rotation and Open Beta announcement
October 16th: Rest economy and open beta begins and new skins and bobbleheads available.
They have a lot planned ...in fact, too much; in my opinion ...essentially with a F2P game going to open beta is the same as live (with the exception of the knowledge that everything can and probably will be reset again for go live). This is huge news; this will open the gates to noobs and lots of them.
The game on average has about 2500 players with open beta I expect that to triple (between 7 and 10k) at least, at first. Unless MWO fixes in game lounge or chat - pugs will be steamrolled until they hate the game. I remember when many games withheld the population numbers making it seem like they were bigger than they were or maybe to pretend to be smaller. I know while I was playing Warhammer Online there were many statements that if they open too many servers to meet demands then close or merge some it would be a sign of a dying game ...and it did seem to indicate that.
So what do you think? Do you think this is too soon? Do you think this is a huge mistake or one they had to do to grasp the momentum they have been working on?
BTW: Check out my video that I submitted for the contest. It is dubstep so if you hate that then just mute it. I would like more feedback.
So I got 2 issues of PC Gamer with the free mech skin and dash bobblehead for your mech. I decided I would give one away in some sort of contest ...people love contest! (right?)
So if you guys would like comment on this post and I will randomly draw a winner.
The skin and bobblehead are available in game OCT 16th although the code can be applied now. The skin will be appliable to all your mechs and the bobblehead will be on your mech dash so you can see it and once others on your team die they will be able to watch it bobble while you continue to pwn other mechs!
The magazine is 9$ at news stands and $1.66 if you have a subscription. So if anyone is reading this that is NOT going to play please email me your code and I will have more to give away. If you want to be recognized as contributing I will refer traffic to you.
