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Guild Beta Key Giveaway

News | April 23, 2008 (3 weeks, 2 days ago) | by Kody | Filed in Age of Conan

UPDATE: The keys have been sent out for now. If we're able to provide a list of the guilds we'll do so tomorrow.

Guilds, this beta key giveaway is for you! We've received beta keys from Funcom and will be giving them out to 20 guilds in total, with each guild getting their hands on 15 beta keys to give out to their members, at their discretion.

The keys can then be used to enter the Closed Beta of Age of Conan, where you'll have access to the entire game with no level cap and can contribute to the final phase of bug-finding and feature testing prior to launch. Age of Conan may have gone gold already, but that doesn't mean the testing stops here! MMOs continue on even after release, so any data you can help Funcom compile will be infinitely useful for the future of the game.

Great, so how do I sign up?

Signing up for the giveaway is easy; simply send an email to aocguildbeta@curse.com with the subject "Guild Beta Entry: <your guild name>" along with the following information in the body of the email, to be eligible for consideration:

  • What are your guild's goals in Hyboria? Are you looking to get down and dirty in the siege warfare, or do you want to raid? Maybe you're a crafting guild or want to do PvP mini-games -- tell us!
  • Your guild's name.
  • Your guild's website URL.
  • The size of your guild.
  • Previous games your guild has played (if applicable).
  • Contact email where we can send the keys if your guild is chosen.

Rules

  • Age of Conan is still under NDA. As such, you must agree to the NDA prior to downloading the game and playing it, and agree that you will not disclose the beta process or Age of Conan publicly until Funcom and Eidos give consent by releasing the NDA.
  • Only the guild leader, or a guild officer may submit an entry.
  • Duplicate entries will be deleted.
  • The person entering the guild into the giveaway will be notified upon completion date of giveaway with all information on how to enter the beta.

We'll begin giving out the beta keys on Saturday, April 26th, 2008 -- just in time for some weekend fun in Hyboria -- so get your submissions in fast!

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

The keys have been sent out, yes. The completely honest reason why I didn't post yet is because I was out house hunting yesterday because I need to find a new place to live by May 15th. :)

There were a staggering number of submissions to the giveaway. If I can confirm things with the guilds who received keys as well as Funcom, I'll potentially post a list of the guilds tomorrow. Thanks for the patience and I apologize for not getting a post up telling what was going on before now.

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Well TSG is a large guild, and we didnt get in so it wasnt based on size.

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

My guild have more than 320 active (logged in the last month) account, soo it's prolly not based on guild size :). (we fill 2x500 characters slots)

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

We only knew that the keys were probably going to be sent out early today. Curse was gracious enough to leave no indication that they had even been distributed. Leaving all of us to sit and wonder whether we still had a chance. That is why it is a waste of time. Regardless of whether i got in or not, I still feel that it is unfair to leave everyone else in the dark. There is no reason for you to even be here making assumptions and insulting people. I pray that you end up on our server so that we may stomp your arrogant faces into the dirt.

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

My guild only had 30. And it's not a waste of time. I suppose if you got in it wouldn't have been a waste of time? The world revolves around you.

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

did only the premiere guilds with 500 members win? what a waste of time....

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

...is Kody registered on this site I wonder O.o....

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Yeah, you're probably telling the truth because I've been registered on this site since they made the Curse client tool, and I didn't win, so, winning before registering seems to fit the pattern of all the other give aways. I'm gonna take my bitterness and wash it down with some self-loathing. Have fun playing. At least promise to do some bug reporting while you're in there. By the way, what's your guild's website, I'd like to see what kind of guilds got keys. Just to have any idea what Kody was looking for in his picks.

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

I'm not pulling chains, I'm deadly serious. The reason behind other guilds not posting may have been the same as me not posting earlier. I was never registered on this website until an hour ago. Therefore, they may not be able to post.

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Well, that's about right, if he is telling the truth. 10 guilds have been active on these boards since they announced this. Out of the 10, 0 got in. So...the other 20 came from people who just sent in their mail that probably said "Oboyz Kodee!...Let us INZ weer the l33t35t geeld in Age of Kumar"

And if the patterns from any of the other giveaways is an indication, they got a free pass. O yeah, they also probably registered last night, not 2.5 days ago.

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

if your not just pulling our chain, that is 1/20 of the emails for 15 keys..is as you say, your guild got their email.

where are the other 19 guilds reporting they got in? or Kody letting us know whats up?

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Yes, the keys have been sent out. They were actually sent out EXTREMELY early today. I'm talking before most of us even woke up. My guild got in, fortunately. Sorry to those who didn't get in, I know what it feels like.

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

The keys have been sent out.

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

maybe someone should PM him or some guild should post they got in.

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Well The Sundered Guard is still waiting, I found out after sending in my email that a guild member had already sent one even though she is not even an AoC chapter office much less a leader. So UI hope they look at my email as it contains alot of guild info.

www.thesunderedguard.com

Arra

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Hey man its understandable. Im surprised he hasn't posted in here at all recently. It does suck when you follow a game and then they start releasing all of these "betas" and you have been waiting for years and still can't get in. Heck I have an account from 05 on AOC, he doesn't have beta.

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

I think, maybe, I need to stop trying to get keys through contests or giveaways. I've yet to participate in one that gave me a good feeling. For example, 200 keys given away to 1200 registrants last week, and no one that I know or have seen active gets one. Mmolecule's contest is plagued with people registering multiple accounts, and they start out giving 100 keys away, I register on the first day, and then they spread the contest over 5 days, but allow people to keep registering for the contest, I'm guessing last day odds are worse than first days, some guys that won the TTHammer contest can't even spell or use remotely correct grammar in their contest entry (wonder if the devs will be able to read their bug reports, HAH).

I don't know, even the file planet thing has been a major disappointment to everyone. You can never get any sort of answers anywhere, the Gamespot PvP weekend was a downloading tragedy. Now, we have no idea whether or not any of us got any keys, or even that some other guild, besides the 7-10 guilds that have been actively posting here for the last 2 days or so, won any.

I know that I spent about an hour on my application, and even though we're a very small guild, I at least thought we'd get an honorable mention for being one of less than 10 merc guilds that I've seen active online worldwide. Right now, merc'ing doesn't look that popular. But Kody said FC wanted a mix of different types of guilds, So, you'd think they might want to put a merc guild in there with the 20.

But hey, I guess I was being too hopeful. I'm just trying not to be jaded and selfish, but I've only tried in about 20 different contests so far, and really felt this was our best shot, since we've really worked hard on hashing our guild out, but cant' really recruit that heavily until launch because we need to see what kind of demand there is for mercs.

Well, good luck guys. Days not over yet.

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

I feel your pain man. I have signed up for every beta give away to date.

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Im sure they have gone out. Probably just our bad luck that we are the people watching it lol.

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Yeah... They have done a great job of letting us know whether we need to be watching our emails still or not.

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