Enter the Elemental Giveaway! (Ends 3/29)
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Topic: Enter the Elemental Giveaway! (Ends 3/29)
Posted By: GM Luna
Subject: Enter the Elemental Giveaway! (Ends 3/29)
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2012 at 16:27
 GM Luna ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk 
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Posted By: Belthazor
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2012 at 16:41
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Question, when they ask for my name is it my real name or my game name? ------------- We work in the Dark to serve the Light |
Posted By: Createure
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2012 at 16:43
| It's your real name... you give away your ingame name afterwards for another entry. |
Posted By: Belthazor
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2012 at 16:47
Oh, ok cool. Thanks Creat. ------------- We work in the Dark to serve the Light |
Createure wrote:Posted By: Gimli Son of Groin
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2012 at 16:58
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Wow, already done them all :) ------------- “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien “I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien |
Posted By: invictusa
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2012 at 17:40
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Thread closed to increase my chances.
------------- ...and miles to go before I sleep. |
Posted By: HonoredMule
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2012 at 17:45
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Thread reopened with my equally impressive bold text powers.
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Posted By: PurpleRain
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2012 at 19:53
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Awww and I was being sneaky hoping only folk who signed up for the email newsletters would know about this....heeheehee *hides the thread to increase her chances* *stares lovingly at the Elementals* |
Posted By: Sgt..Shanks
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2012 at 20:31
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You can only try to win these spiffy things for one of your accounts???
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Posted By: Rohk
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2012 at 21:39
I signed up for the email newsletter but I haven't received anything (I have received no mail from the Illyriad mailing list at all, not just about the giveaway). I guess I should try again and be thankful I read the forums.
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Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2012 at 22:14
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@Sgt. Shanks - There is only one winner and you can only enter once per email address/facebook account. So theoretically, you could enter once for each of your accounts. But creating lots of spam accounts to do multiple entries could get you disqualified. @Rohk - You may want to check your spam folder. I hope that it wouldn't show up there but it may have. ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk
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Posted By: shadow
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2012 at 23:55
.............sneaks in his entries 
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Posted By: Gragnog
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2012 at 13:22
| Also got nothing in email. Guess it was worth a try. |
Posted By: Brids17
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2012 at 17:56
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Maybe it's just me but I felt this was kind of cheap and dishonest. I'm all for random prizes and giveaways but at least state your intentions of it. No where in your post did you even hint that this was just ploy to bribe us into advertising for you for free. No where on the actual webpage did it say that either. It wasn't until I saw you got extra points liking on facebook or tweeting it that I realized what it was. I don't want to spam my friends with "Go here! Play this!". If we're having a conversation that warrants it, I may tell them about illy like I would with any other game. However I'm not going to mass endorse your game to everyone on my friend list in the hopes I can win $3 worth of in game content. Especially not when you don't even tell me up front that that's what you want me to do. Admittedly, this kind of thing irks me more than most people but I don't think it's too much to ask that you're upfront about it. Especially if we're the ones advertising for you. All that said, I did have one entree and if by some rare chance I win, re-select someone else. I don't want it. -------------  |
Posted By: Tordenkaffen
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2012 at 18:40
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I have to agree a little with Brids here, I can't partake as I try not to advertise to the whole world what I do in my sparetime. Its private. I wish there was an alternative to the twitter/facebook stuff. We broadly agree on the goal, but the means...notsomuch. Cheers. |
Posted By: Marquesta
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2012 at 18:53
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You can't enter again with your alt?
------------- ~~Marquesta Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them... |
Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2012 at 18:58
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I totally understand and respect that some people do not use social media at all and if they do it is their choice to use it how they see fit. That is why the contest purposefully has an option to enter without connecting to any social media or posting to any social media. You can enter by simply giving us your character name and email. The option is there to also use social media to enter but, again, it is entirely optional. (Just as participating in the contest itself is entirely optional.) Illyriad (on principle that I feel strongly about) never forces anyone to spam their friends on facebook or otherwise. Not in gameplay and not for this contest. I respect our players and will not cross that line. That said, yes, we do have official social media channels for Illyriad. I run them and I hope that they provide value to players who choose to follow us there. One of those sources of value (in this case) is extra entries into a contest. And again, this is not the first and will not be the last contest that we hold for Illyriad. We've done others in the past that have no tie-in to social media at all and I'm sure we'll do some again. I hope that helps to clarify, and again, there is no dishonest intent here. Just another avenue with which to provide something that (I hope) players will enjoy. Luna ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk
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Posted By: Rill
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2012 at 23:18
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I respect what Luna is saying, but I agree with Brids. In addition, campaigns of this kind can be used to artificially "bump" a company or product in various search sites. The problem is, everyone does it, so the information provided by those sites becomes less valuable. I was a bit disappointed to see Illy joining in the crowd on that one. In terms of adding value, it seems like this was frankly designed to add value for Illy more than it was to add value for the players. Which is fine, I'm good with you guys making money. However, it seems like it falls a bit short of the normally extraordinarily highly ethical manner with which Illy treats its playerbase. Not deceptive or underhanded necessarily, but intended more for the benefit of the company than the players, the vast majority of whom will derive no benefit at all from this exercise. Edited to add: I actually believe that the players benefit when the devs make money, since this allows them to add more features we like, and I do trust the devs to do good things with money they make. I'm just not sure this is an "end justifies the means" situation. But it's not a big deal.
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Posted By: White Beard
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2012 at 23:34
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Why
give away items that players have earned the hard way by winning tourneys? It
cheapens the prize that those players received thru their playing
skills.
Players did receive the tourney troops, just because they changed
alliances right after the last tourney was over. It seems to go a lot against
the high standards I thought this game had.
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Posted By: Subatoi
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2012 at 23:46
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Why are we complaining about this? Now I feel left out.. Are we mad about illy going mainstream? should i be mad? I don't know.. what gets me to play illy is the fun little in game politics, so stressful but so fun.... i dont think youd stip playing if they went on more paths of mainstreamdom hmm? just complaining? i dont know.. maybe you'll boycott the game or something..could work.. all i know is the community irks me but keeps politics interesting so i stay. AS Iofilip once said ""
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Posted By: Albatross
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2012 at 00:25
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Forgive my lack of knowledge here, but there's a "refer a new player for 50 prestige points" scheme. Did the social media links for this promotion include the necessary data to qualify new leads for that scheme? It would be a shame if not, and I would encourage future promotions to do this, to provide genuine benefit to existing players.
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Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2012 at 00:35
This contest and the buddy programme aren't connected, no. But there is nothing stopping anyone from using Twitter/Facebook/etc. to try to get people to sign up using their referral code. It's really an entirely separate thing and really up to the individual what they want to do with relation to that. Luna ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk
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Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2012 at 00:48
I believe there was an error with the initial assignment of the prize troops but it was since corrected. Luna ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk
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Posted By: Prometheuz
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2012 at 10:23
| I shall not be joining in this. I did not realise that the sandbox would extend to giveaways and lotteries. |
Posted By: invictusa
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2012 at 11:57
I made a petition about this which is still yet to be answered. I am experiencing RL traumatic panic attacks and such in deciding whether I want to disband the 35 Elite praetorians and 35 scribes. It would be much easier if the devs did the act for me, and even better: take the prize away from those in my shoes who are having no such qualms about accepting something they did not earn. ------------- ...and miles to go before I sleep. |
Posted By: SunStorm
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2012 at 18:31
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(0.o) did I win?
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Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2012 at 19:14
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http://www.illyriad.co.uk/blog/?p=1320" rel="nofollow - The winner was Dvspn ! Congrats! And thanks for all of your feedback everyone. I'll keep it in mind for next time around. Luna ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk
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Posted By: Rill
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2012 at 19:39
| congrats to DVspn! |
Posted By: SunStorm
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2012 at 20:53
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Posted By: PurpleRain
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2012 at 21:08
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Congratulations!! Enjoy your Eles Dvspn. :) |
Posted By: shadow
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2012 at 15:35
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What the? I demand a recount! Oh wait, it was drawing....In that case, CONGRATULATIONS Dvspn!!  You now have something very few, if anyone, has in Illy. So if one elemental, sent to the HoC, pushes back the corruption with it's pure natural energy (and survives). I wonder what all four types of ele's sent there together, in the same army would do (hint hint). You could be the first(?) to find out  Feel free to post and let us know.......If you choose to test it out for us  |
Posted By: PurpleRain
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2012 at 21:25
Will you hush down, I want to try that....just need to get some eles first *sigh*.....just need a fire, air and water in my town 1. stone haven devs ;) ;)
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