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brachester
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Australia1786 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-24 19:57:31
January 24 2012 19:41 GMT
#1
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO,
I was never into the whole DOTA phenomenon that all my friends were talking about back in the days. They seems to really enjoyed it but i never liked the idea of controlling only one heroe cause that seems too boring for me.

2 years ago, my brother and I decided to give it a try (1v1 Dota LOL) and we were hooked by it. It was so fun to play. Lucifer the Doombringer was so OP 1v1 so i dominated my bro hahaha. Then i eventually decided to play a team game after 1 week of hardcore "1v1 DOTA". Well, as many of you have already known the newbie-hostile attitude of the DOTA community. i got put off by people bashing me for no reason, so i gave up on it. Luckily, i made an account on playdota.com before i quit.

Recently, my two bros start playing HoN with the help of my cousin who just came back from China who's supposed to be very good at DOTA games. When i was watching them play i thought "well this is kinda fun isn't it?". By this time, i'm already accustomed with the internet so i'm thinking "Since DOTA 2 is coming out i might just wait for it and give it a try". So, this afternoon i decided to use my playdota.com account from two years a go and sign up for the beta key give away without much hope of getting one. I checked my email again before i went to sleep and a wild "message" appeared: "Congratulations on winning a Dota 2 Beta Key" with a bunch of "Pls Invite me" messages follow up. It took me about 10 seconds to realize "HOLY MOTHER (&#)@##)(&@#$()&)(*(*$#%@^". I was even more happy when i saw this sentence "...2 extra copies...", It perfectly fit with my two bros hahaha.

So, BIG BIG BIG thanks to the playdota forum "bot" for randomly choosing me, and big thanks to Valve for the two extra copies.

P.S. I have always been confident about my good luck and this just further proved that i'm right

P.P.S. Sorry about my english

*
I hate all this singing
Navillus
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1188 Posts
January 24 2012 19:48 GMT
#2
Your English is fine, but just as a note/pet peeve of mine, it's P.P.S. not P.S.S. Because P.S. stands for post-script so P.P.S. would be post-post-script, which is weird but makes sense, on the other hand P.S.S. would be post-script-script which makes no sense.
"TL gives excellent advice 99% of the time. The problem is no one listens to it." -Plexa
MeeMeesiko
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States40 Posts
January 24 2012 19:49 GMT
#3
I love it when things like that happen <3

Congrats!
brachester
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Australia1786 Posts
January 24 2012 19:56 GMT
#4
On January 25 2012 04:48 Navillus wrote:
Your English is fine, but just as a note/pet peeve of mine, it's P.P.S. not P.S.S. Because P.S. stands for post-script so P.P.S. would be post-post-script, which is weird but makes sense, on the other hand P.S.S. would be post-script-script which makes no sense.

Oh silly me, i was supposed to write P.P.S. and thanks
I hate all this singing
Narcind
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Sweden2489 Posts
January 24 2012 20:00 GMT
#5
Congratulations, it's a very good game for how early into beta it is, I'm sure you'll have fun.
GigaFlop
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States1146 Posts
January 24 2012 20:30 GMT
#6
Dota2 is definitely a fun game. Welcome to the club!
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ "Shift-Q oftentimes makes a capital Q" - Day[9] || iNcontrol - Alligator from heaven = ^
Mysti_
Profile Joined May 2011
France185 Posts
January 24 2012 21:54 GMT
#7
I wish I had a beta key T_T
"Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never." - "Ability is of little account without opportunity." Napoléon
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
January 24 2012 22:06 GMT
#8
You really should have titled this "Thx for Dota 2 Beta Key." I think a lot of people are going to come here thinking they have a chance to get a key xD
:)
Fishgle
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States2174 Posts
January 24 2012 22:09 GMT
#9
I had a dream about this blog post about a year ago. O_O Am I psychic?
aka ChillyGonzalo / GnozL
Son of Gnome
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States777 Posts
January 24 2012 22:17 GMT
#10
Nice read :D quick question is says that your country is Australia but u have trouble with english? Isnt english they language that is spoken in Australia.
Whatever happens, happens
dezi
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany1536 Posts
January 24 2012 23:00 GMT
#11
Lucky you - i'm still waiting. At least the Lancer isn't already in the game - so that's kinda ... ok -_-
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danl9rm
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States3111 Posts
January 24 2012 23:22 GMT
#12
On January 25 2012 08:00 dezi wrote:
Lucky you - i'm still waiting. At least the Lancer isn't already in the game - so that's kinda ... ok -_-


Still waiting on him and centaur... Nobody plays centaur carry like me
"Science has so well established that the preborn baby in the womb is a living human being that most pro-choice activists have conceded the point. ..since the abortion proponents have lost the science argument, they are now advocating an existential one."
brachester
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Australia1786 Posts
January 25 2012 08:16 GMT
#13
On January 25 2012 07:17 Son of Gnome wrote:
Nice read :D quick question is says that your country is Australia but u have trouble with english? Isnt english they language that is spoken in Australia.

I'm an international student :D
I hate all this singing
yorkey
Profile Joined February 2011
England69 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-19 14:21:34
February 19 2012 14:17 GMT
#14
i'm assuming i'm clutching at straws here but are beta keys still hard to get held of? I've tried to get one since they announced it but never had any luck.
Reading some forums they seem to suggest loads of people got them but others seem to suggest they are still almost impossible to get.

Am i wasting my time at this stage trying to get one?

(sorry to go off topic but i didn't want to start a fresh post about a topic already discussed)
Goshawk.
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United Kingdom5338 Posts
February 19 2012 14:21 GMT
#15
yorkey post in playdota.com thread that gives keys out randomly and sign up for the Steam survey are your best bets. You can also try looking for various giveaways on streams/twitter, but that's a lot more effort.
yorkey
Profile Joined February 2011
England69 Posts
February 19 2012 15:22 GMT
#16
thanks goshawk i shall
ffswowsucks
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
Greece2297 Posts
February 19 2012 15:42 GMT
#17
Can I give you a lotto to fill out for me? if you win we split 50-50
Terran in particular is a notoriously strong race for a no brain skillhand bot style.
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