Major Flaw with Gamestop Betakey Giveaway System - Page 3

On April 30 2010 12:49 Kennigit wrote:
This would be cool except for the fact that beta is all but open. It's so easy to get a key that you are just wasting your own time.

On April 30 2010 12:46 tenpromicro wrote:


Just to clarify, I'm not the same guy who posted on the first page of this thread calling GS douches for blacklisting -- my credit card was never banned because I used multiple cards and different addresses.

On your question, if you really want it that badly, go to a GS location near you and pre-order it in person with cash to a different address. Not really rocket science buddy.

On April 30 2010 13:02 Koltz wrote:


You're right, you are

if you are tenpromicro on SC2, then you definitely unpaused a game before I got when I was only gone for a minute; mind you that doesnt matter, you unpaused literally 10 seconds after.

On April 30 2010 12:49 Kennigit wrote:
This would be cool except for the fact that beta is all but open. It's so easy to get a key that you are just wasting your own time.

On April 30 2010 13:19 Trollface wrote:
I work for Gamestop. We printed out a sticker with a certain barcode and stuck it to the side of the cash register, and every time you zap it and hit total it prints out a Starcraft 2 beta key. I gave out nine of them today.

You can also always get that $5 preorder money back whenever you ask. And you can get as many beta keys as you'd like for a $5 refundable deposit apiece. They're essentially giving out free keys already just to get people into the store. And it's working - I was comparing our numbers to last year's and we did almost double the business today. A bunch of folks brought in used games to trade towards SC2 preorders. And we tripled our normal reserve targets.

I'd be surprised if anyone at corporate or Blizzard cared if anyone was gaming the system to get extra beta keys. What are you going to do, give them out to all your friends and do free viral marketing for Blizzard? Oh no! Anything but that!

On April 30 2010 13:19 Trollface wrote:
I work for Gamestop. We printed out a sticker with a certain barcode and stuck it to the side of the cash register, and every time you zap it and hit total it prints out a Starcraft 2 beta key. I gave out nine of them today.

You can also always get that $5 preorder money back whenever you ask. And you can get as many beta keys as you'd like for a $5 refundable deposit apiece. They're essentially giving out free keys already just to get people into the store. And it's working - I was comparing our numbers to last year's and we did almost double the business today. A bunch of folks brought in used games to trade towards SC2 preorders. And we tripled our normal reserve targets.

I'd be surprised if anyone at corporate or Blizzard cared if anyone was gaming the system to get extra beta keys. What are you going to do, give them out to all your friends and do free viral marketing for Blizzard? Oh no! Anything but that!

On April 30 2010 12:23 anch wrote:
Gamestop are douches, once they find out you taking advantage of their system, you will be added to their black list, after that they will cancel your order on anything including pre-orders. (anything purchased thru gamestop.com)
both my visa cards and home address are blocked. I tried many combination with it even with new account, they wont process my order.

On April 30 2010 12:15 Manlot wrote:
This is bad

On April 30 2010 17:30 eugen1225 wrote:
Well... since its SO easy to get a beta key and its practically OPEN BETA for a lot of you (as you claim) and you are swimming in keys, maybe some1 can get 1 for me, just pull it out of a sock or something, since its impossible to get one in Serbia or Romania as a mere mortal, k, thx...