EPTI'm doing OK I think - if anyone cares. I am just wondering why someone would do what I will tell you guys in this post.
Everything starts now.
First of all you guys should know that I'm a high masters protoss player. Actually you don't need to know that but I'm just throwing it out there so I don't look like some random Dota player on a Starcraft forum!
I used to play Dota with my friends a few years ago. I'm not going to extend too much here since you'll get the chance to know about my 'dota years' later in this post. What I can say is that we used to have a 'big' group of friends that played Dota every day on battle.net and then eventually garena. I love Starcraft 2 don't get me wrong but in terms of social interaction and fun Dota got one big history in my life. Awesome hours and hours playing with some amazing real life friends. But again that doesn't really matters too much in my history.
The main point starts by the day that our group found out that Dota 2 was coming out. Everyone got pumped. We all tried hard to get one beta key but none of us made it. I believe I was the one trying the hardest and I was starting to think if I should give up or not. Back one week ago when I had that kind of thought in mind I saw this one thread on TL:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=290946
TLDR; One guy was doing one giveaway. Asking why you deserve it.
I started to wonder. Do I really deserve it? And if I do why? Is just cause I want to play it really badly? Well everyone wants... I guess I should just tell this guy all my history in Dota.
This is my post if anyone is interested : http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=12548239#13
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I will post here what I PM'ed you.
You want to know why I want a beta key? Because I believe I have noble reason to want one. I tried hundreds of giveaways and between trolls - that I hope you are not - and just random unlucky I didn't even get close to one key. My reason is pretty simple. I have a group of something like 20 friends that we used to play Dota 1 - A LOT, but right now most of us just gave up - very few still play Dota 1 actually - and we all wait for Dota 2. Because of small things in life a part of the group end up separating from the rest - games/jobs/studies. We are now something like maybe 10ish people?
When we first heard of the Dota 2 beta keys giveaway we all got pretty excited. Come on look the size of our group SOMEONE will get the beta key! We were all wrong. None of us got. We tried. We tried hard for something about a month. No one got it. In the end most of the group gave up. There is maybe 3 guys still trying - counting with me - to get the beta key. I don't want to get a beta key to play alone by myself all day. I want to test the game. I want to share with EVERYONE in this group the beta key. So everyone can know the experience of playing Dota 2. So everyone can have that little feeling that in some time we might be playing all together as we used to. Fun times when we used to log in TS, connect to battle.net - yes we are that old - and play Dota for hours!
I want to have that time again! Not only me, but all my friends. While we can only wait I still can try to get that key to remind everyone that we can play together again. Sooner than we thought!
My point is: if I end up getting a key it won't be just to me, just one guy using it and playing it. But this key will actually be used by 10 maybe 15 guys!
Thanks for the opportunity.
You want to know why I want a beta key? Because I believe I have noble reason to want one. I tried hundreds of giveaways and between trolls - that I hope you are not - and just random unlucky I didn't even get close to one key. My reason is pretty simple. I have a group of something like 20 friends that we used to play Dota 1 - A LOT, but right now most of us just gave up - very few still play Dota 1 actually - and we all wait for Dota 2. Because of small things in life a part of the group end up separating from the rest - games/jobs/studies. We are now something like maybe 10ish people?
When we first heard of the Dota 2 beta keys giveaway we all got pretty excited. Come on look the size of our group SOMEONE will get the beta key! We were all wrong. None of us got. We tried. We tried hard for something about a month. No one got it. In the end most of the group gave up. There is maybe 3 guys still trying - counting with me - to get the beta key. I don't want to get a beta key to play alone by myself all day. I want to test the game. I want to share with EVERYONE in this group the beta key. So everyone can know the experience of playing Dota 2. So everyone can have that little feeling that in some time we might be playing all together as we used to. Fun times when we used to log in TS, connect to battle.net - yes we are that old - and play Dota for hours!
I want to have that time again! Not only me, but all my friends. While we can only wait I still can try to get that key to remind everyone that we can play together again. Sooner than we thought!
My point is: if I end up getting a key it won't be just to me, just one guy using it and playing it. But this key will actually be used by 10 maybe 15 guys!
Thanks for the opportunity.
Pretty cool history sn't it? Well it's all truth if someone wonders. That actually happened to my friends and I.
Maybe the truth would get him that's what I thought. It didn't. I didn't win that key. And 2-3 days later I just said fuck it. I'm out. I'll just wait the fucking game to come out.
And so today begun. As always I opened teamliquid - know this is one week after my post - and today I had received one PM. Well, it was odd. I don't receive a lot of PM's on TL other than some "Thank you" like when I sent a pro gamer some support message - like Sheth he is awesome <3.
I opened it. And as I was reading it I started to slowly say "wha... tha... fuck.". And I end up with one "FUCKING REALLY?". I guess you want to know what that PM said. Here is one screenshot.
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No, I am not posting this guy login. I don't want him to get attention that he doesn't deserve.
At first I couldn't really believe it. So I started to search it. And I end up pretty sad. There was this one giveaway in sk-gaming.com
http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/35853-Dota_2_Beta_key_giveaway
And there was an entry with the following words:
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So this random guy with some really bad english stole my post. And if that was not enough he added ONE sentence with some poor fucking monkey language.
"I looking for awesome graphics,gameplay and test this awesome game."
Not that I think I'm some GURU of ENGLISH. No, I'm not THE FUCKING ENGLISHMANTEACHERBOSS. But that guy - from some posts I looked - is PRETTY PRETTY fucking dumb. He seems like a whale typing.
So, yeah. I knew what this guy did. I knew that he literally just took my post and CTRL + C CTRL + V. And he got the key that I tried pretty fucking hard for quite the time.
After all that I wonder two things.
First: Why the guy that made the giveaway on sk-gaming website didn't search for every 'winner' post to see if he actually wrote it or just got it from webs? I actually sent that guy a message telling him all that happened. I don't expect anything from the guy. As I said to him:
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"Well, I can't ask you to take his beta key back if it's actually true that he won one. And I'm not going to beg for one key like if I deserve it. I will just ask you to next time search for things like in google. If you've searched for only the beginning of the post like "You want to know why I want a beta key? " You would've found that this guy just copied my post. And if you actually look with some attention you would see that is kind strange that all the post contains an at least OK english with some random "I looking".
But it's ok I'm not mad or anything like that - if all that is actually true. I am just sad that someone that clearly doesn't deserve that beta key won it instead of thousands of people that are trying hard every day to get it.
Thank you very much for your attention."
But it's ok I'm not mad or anything like that - if all that is actually true. I am just sad that someone that clearly doesn't deserve that beta key won it instead of thousands of people that are trying hard every day to get it.
Thank you very much for your attention."
Second: Why the fuck would someone do what this guy did? I just don't understand. Am I too honest? I just don't see me NEVER EVER doing something like that. Using someone's else story/work to win some shit. Fuck... if you don't have one 'cool story bro' to tell and show that you deserve it at least make something up by yourself. Don't take someone's life and use it like it's yours. Yes, right now I'm kind mad. But all the mad in the world won't 'punish' this guy just because one small Dota 2 Beta key. It actually would've mean a lot to me to get one but I'm not killing myself. I'm just typing some huge blog on TL to maybe get some nice posts that will cheer me up?
PS: As I said I'm not expecting someone to read this and "Oh poor baby let me send you one beta key." And I'm also not saying that I deserve more than this guy the beta key. I don't know anything about him. I just think it's pretty fucked up what he did.
At least today a friend of mine borrow me his Diablo 3 acc! Too bad the server was off at the time I finished the download. But yes I think I'm going to survive to all that.
Sorry for any miss typed thing. I'm tired and mad.
Thank you very much for getting the time to read everything. TL is awesome. Although I don't post a lot I'm a lurker here for ages!
Please tell what do you think about all that.
With love,
me.
<3
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