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MMORPG.com is very happy to announce that after seeing how fast the first 5,000 gift keys were given away, IGG has agreed to give us 5000 more keys, each worth $135 in free in game goodies for Voyage Century.  The last batch went in about 24 hours, so hurry and get yours now!

FREE GIFT KEYS AT THIS LINK! (MMORPG.com login required)

Originally posted by kikinchaz

I was checking all yesterday and today but it just says 0 keys. Did they all go then or was there a problem?

They all went very quickly.  I would say they lasted about 6-8 hours.  1000 more will go out next Friday.

Originally posted by kitsunegirl

Automated message for an automated promotion. Its July 4th. Everyones out of the mmo offices. lol

I'm here 365 days a year and haven't taken a full day off in over 8 years

Sorry guys, I still had the stop date in there from last week.  All fixed now. 

I am working on a holiday you know!

MMORPG.com has begun the second phase of our Wakfu beta key handout.  The first 1000 keys went very quick last Friday so make sure you hurry to get in on this round!

To get your key you only need to be a registered and activated member of MMORPG.com - then CLICK HERE!

MMORPG.com has teamed up with IGG to give you a cool free stuff to claim within Voyage Century.  We have been given 5000 gift codes that will grant you $135 in free in-game gifts for Voyage Century!

Each gift key will give you:

• (1) Silver box containing 5 million silver coins!
• (3) Double XP Scrolls - In 60 minutes after used all skills obtain 2 times the present experience. The system will stop timing after quiting the game and begin timing again automatically after logining the game. It can be used for 5 times.
• (2) Phase 3 Skill Manuals - Requires the corresponding skill level 100.
• (1) Future Fighter Charm -  Left time 168 hours

We are limiting just one key per IP address so you will not be able to claim more than one of these from the same household.

Hurry and get yours before they are all gone!  CLICK HERE NOW!

Originally posted by Myrathi

Given that NCSoft have offices that serve Europe, a US-only competition is little more than the usual "we don't care" bird-flip that most of their customers are already used to.

Congrat's on staying true-to-form, NCSoft. Heh.

In their defense, I belive that NCsoft Asia, North America and EU companies are all very seperately managed companies owned by one parent company - NCsoft.  Even when we run trial offers for CoX or TR we can only offer the North America members keys and due to restrictions within the company we have to refer our EU members to other EU fan sites for the trials and such.  I think that each division of NCsoft is actually forbidden from "stepping" into another's turf so to speak.  While we could try to get a contest with a EU division of NCsoft, it is my understanding that NCsoft N.A cannot run promotions outside of the US/Canada regions.

That would be my bad!  All fixed up now :)

Sorry about the North America only limits - this is a requirement from NCsoft I am afraid.

MMORPG.com has partnered up with NCsoft to bring an exciting new contest to our members!  From now until August 1, 2008 we will be taking entries into a sweepstakes where we will give away two 1GB VisionTek Radeon HD3870 X video cards, two iPod Nano's and a pile of NCsoft games!

NOTE: We are sorry, but due to shipping constraints, this sweepstakes contest is only available to our North American members.

As with all contests at MMORPG.com, the more days you login to the site, the better your odds of winning! (see official rules for details)

Are you ready to enter?  CLICK HERE!

Originally posted by jinxit

I dont see a problem with more advertising, if it wasnt for this site i would never know about numerous competitions, beta tests, and special offers from numerous mmo's.

I just hope all these discounts and such wont be exclusive to the states...lets not forget our just as important euro members  

I'm sorry to say they will be a US/Canada only thing for the most part.  They just don't have the setup to work with worldwide merchants at this time.  They did indicate this might happen in the future.  I think you could still use the discounts, but most the merchants are US based so by the time you paid shipping and import tariffs it would probably not be worth it.

This is the tricky thing about the Internet...we all feel like one small borderless planet when online, but the logistics of taking things to the real world borders gets tough when you try to ship contest prizes 15,000 miles away or do international promotions like this OneBigPlanet thing.  For example, we can ship a $50 keyboard prize to a winner in Germany (which costs us about $35!) - but most won't pay the $15 tariff tax to pick it up at the local depot...and I can't say I blame them, it stinks to pay for a prize!

Perhaps someday the real world will catch up with the online world in these ways, but I'm guessing it will take a while.

If any Euro based companies approach us with discounts for you guys, I would happily set it up on this end.  Generally, I will setup just about anything if a company wants to work with us to do it.  We have done EU only beta contests in the past like this.

Originally posted by CaesarsGhost

Originally posted by Admin

Originally posted by Taevil

Originally posted by CaesarsGhost

Great... you're trying to piggyback some earnings by having us "save" on overpriced Items on "authorized" sites.

Next you'll offer Free iPod deals, if we buy 100 items or more?

 

my thoughts too lol.  I go to the site and i feel like i am in an early 1997-2000 marketing hitch. 

 

Well, the good news is it will be completely optional.  Unless you go into your user settings here and sign up you won't even know we offer it

When I was approached on this I thought it would be cool if MMORPG.com members got an extra 5% off at GameStop or TigerTirect or whatever.  I browsed through some of the offers they had in our demo site (Which is not live yet) and there were some pretty cool ones I saw.  Like an extra 25% off through Hotels.com (which I use often), $25 off at Crutchfield, etc, etc.

Oh well, can never expect to please everyone I suppose.

Here's the problem Mr Admin... we don't know what sites or deals we can get.

To me, it looks like the same classic scam that for years we've been screaming at people for sending us referal links (Against the MMORPG.com EULA, no?)... which now, you've set up a system of Referal based completely on our user accounts being tied to a piggybacking company.

It's a Pyramid on the outside, that probably means it's a Pyramid on the inside.

So when you partner us with somebody, in order to get us "deals"... you should show some of the deals that would interest a Community such as us.

 

PS: Are we going to start allowing referal links now?

Just to set some things straight:

- MMORPG.com can and will place links that result in commissions for us.  This is our website and profiting from it is what keeps the gears turning.  This kind of thing is just another form of advertising for us.  Saying that we do this enables users to use "referral" links is in no way true.  We run banner ads on the site too, but if you tried to do this in a post you would be warned or banned as well.

- MMORPG.com will likely make no direct income from this program.  While they do have some kind of profit sharing program built in, the point at which we would see that is very unrealistic given our site volume.  Believe it or not, the reason I wanted to do this was to give perks to our members...as this will hopefully lead to more members or at least more satisfied members, which in turn will mean indirect income from the program.  We like to make our profits from happy members looking at in-page advertisements, not shady tactics.

- You will get to see some the programs that are offered before you decide to do this.  While they have thousands of merchants in their system, we will probably try to focus on highlighting the ones that benefit gamers most like discounts on PC gear, software, periphials, etc, etc.

- If after a 3-6 month trial period we don't feel our members are benefiting from this program we are going to remove it.  We don't want anything here that you guys don't want.

- Again, this program is 100% opt-in.  If you don't go into your control panel and say you want to join, you will never be asked to.  The only ads we even plan to run for this will be in our newsletter and daily digest email.

I personally don't like gimmicky programs and annoying adverising.  This is why you never see pop up ads here, or ads that expand or have audio - because I forbid them.  Even when I started this site over 6 years ago I wanted to enable MMORPG.com members to get a discount at GameStop, NewEgg or other cool merchants, but I honestly never had the connections to do so.  Through OneBigPlanet I think we can give our users some kind of perk...and if no one uses it or likes it then we will get rid of it and go about our merry way

Originally posted by Taevil

Originally posted by CaesarsGhost

Great... you're trying to piggyback some earnings by having us "save" on overpriced Items on "authorized" sites.

Next you'll offer Free iPod deals, if we buy 100 items or more?

 

my thoughts too lol.  I go to the site and i feel like i am in an early 1997-2000 marketing hitch. 

Well, the good news is it will be completely optional.  Unless you go into your user settings here and sign up you won't even know we offer it

When I was approached on this I thought it would be cool if MMORPG.com members got an extra 5% off at GameStop or TigerTirect or whatever.  I browsed through some of the offers they had in our demo site (Which is not live yet) and there were some pretty cool ones I saw.  Like an extra 25% off through Hotels.com (which I use often), $25 off at Crutchfield, etc, etc.

Oh well, can never expect to please everyone I suppose.

MMORPG.com would like to bring to your attention a cool sweepstakes that GameRigs.com is currently offering where you can win one of many cool prizes, including a new custom painted Anarchy Online PC!

To take part in this special event just FOLLOW THIIS LINK!

NOTE: This contest is not operated by MMORPG.com - this contest is solely operated by GameRigs.com. 

Ankama Games has given MMORPG.com 1000 beta keys for their new MMORPG Wakfu! We will give away a total of 3000 keys over the next few weeks and this is the first phase. Get one while you can!

All you need to get a free beta test key is your free MMORPG.com membership - then just CLICK THIS LINK!

Originally posted by Indican

Originally posted by Stradden

Today, Managing Editor Jon Wood takes a look at Ideazon's Zboard keyboard, both the standard version and the Age of Conan specific keyset.

Releasing game-specific keysets is nothing new for Zboard, I can’t seem to walk into my local Best buy without tripping over one. Today though, I’m only going to talk about the Age of Conan Keyset. At first glance, it has a nice look to it and even a bit of added Conan feel. To the right (taking the place of a standard keyboard’s number pad), you will find the Conan-specific keys. There are specific keys for: Say, Shout, Tell, Reply, Follow, AFK, Invite, Kick and Auto Run as well as the standard arrow keys, home, delete, and others.

The main keyboard actually functions better as a keyboard than did the standard keyset and the letters and numbers use the Age of Conan font (Which I have to admit, made the geek part of me pretty happy). Of course, the hotkey function of every key is helpfully printed on the side of the relevant keys.

Read the whole article here.

 

Heck, when I installed AoC my computer would not let me even create a  man before it crashed. I have 149g with only 38g used. I have 2 g of RAM, and 2.41 GHz. I'm running an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Duel Core Processor 4800+ on Windows XP Professional system.....so I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it and had the same problem. I ran WoW for 2 years and now Tabula Rasa with no problems. I have a video card called Radeon 8800 series and a new GeForce mother board. I just do not know what else I can do to make this game play. I am into my 10th day of free play and haven't even been able to judge it. I'm thinking of cancelling my subscription if I can't find a cure.

This is really off topic and as the site admin I should really not be doing this...but I feel compelled to share a similar problem I had.  I don't know specifically what you see when you crash (i.e. system resets, blue screen, graceful windows crash, etc). 

My system was just doing a hard reset during character creation.  I have E6600 2.4Ghz Core 2  Duo and the video card was a nVidia 8800GTX.  As it turned out, my power supply was too low at 480W and while I never had a problem before, AoC was finally using my video board in a way that was causing it to draw more power and the supply would fail out.  I dropped in a shiny new 850W PSU and everything was fixed.

If you are having a different crash than I was, like a blue screen of death or other crash then this is likely not the problem at all.  I just felt like I should throw this out there since I Googled my brains out trying to find a solution and eventually I just kind of figured out what it likely was.

MMORPG.com has been given 2000 closed beta keys to give out for the upcoming 2D MMORPG from IAHGames - Dragonica.

All you need to get a free beta testing key is your free MMORPG.com account.

CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR KEY.

MMORPG.com has just been given a lot of beta keys for the upcoming 2D MMORPG from Mgame - "Ghost Online".  The actual closed beta phase will begin on June 17, 2008 and end on June 24, 2008.  You can get your beta key right here and now!

All you need to get your beta key is a MMORPG.com free account.  CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED!

Originally posted by wichdane

This feature WOULD HAVE BEEN great, if it wasn't applicable only for America! Gees, why are there NO European servers listed for ANY game?

Thanks!

I would also like to take this moment to publicy praise our team for this - I think they did a great job with this new tool and I think it really shows the true team effort that went into building it! 

MMORPG.com and IGG are proud to present another great beta testing opportunity for our great community!  IGG has given us 2,000 beta keys to handout to our members so get one while they last!  The beta test will commence on June 10, 2008.

Ready to get your beta key?  CLICK HERE NOW!

MMORPG.com has been given 500 keys for the 3rd and final closed beta phase for Florensia.  The beta test will commence on June 10, 2008. Get your key while supplies last!

All you need to get a free key is your free MMORPG.com membership.  When you are ready to begin just CLICK HERE!