Contest: Win Dawn of War 2

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• 8 : DrWaffles
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  It was 8 =) : GrimmyD
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    Good game. I started guessing letters, cuz I figured there's only 10 numbers and if it is a number, so... : shurcool
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      I started guessing letters because the first key ended in a letter. : Hyrenguy
      • haha same here - first char i put in was a 9 then went to letters in an effort to match up with prior cod... : dedgecko
• Man, I entered the correct char when the feed said "less than 5 seconds ago". :( This contest is no fun. : yoonix
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  How did you even know that? : rezombie
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    You try multiple times? I tried with 4, 2 and 3 before I tried 8 and got it. : GrimmyD
    • I didn't even know it had to be a number. Whatever, congrats to you : rezombie
• now it's a race, AND a guessing game... Bollocks. I haven't had to try this hard since conception, and... : Crastabule
• Yea, that was really disappointing... : Don Soleone
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  Was there a clue somewhere? Or did they just feel like making it a guessing game? : aqtrans
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    Someone had a good point yesterday that a script could potentially be written to grab the key and enter i... : Nick Breckon
    • I'm still lost on how someone could make a script to grab random text? How that works is beyond me or how... : Confrustrating
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      Uhh, if the script can do all that, then what's stopping it from replacing the ? with all of the letters/... : shurcool
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        They'd still have to input the code into Steam to see if it's valid, and that'd be one heck of a script i... : aqtrans
        • That was my thinking. In any case, I apologize to anyone getting all worked up over this. Be aware th... : Nick Breckon
        • Why not try them all? If this magic script can register the key with Steam, I'm sure it can easily try... : shurcool
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      I realize it was to prevent scripting, but a suggestion for next time, maybe make the missing character a... : aqtrans
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        Isn't it usually easier to guess one missing character rather than solve a hard riddle? : shurcool
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          Make it an easy one then :) I started guessing numbers first, so by the time I got to numbers, the key w... : aqtrans
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            I completely froze up and had no idea what to do.. I was already freaking out that it was posted. I didn'... : Confrustrating
            • What'd you expect. It's a contest. There are 500+ followers on shacknews' tweet stream. They even announc... : shurcool
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    No clues. It didn't even say you had to guess the last character. You had to figure that out on your own,... : shurcool
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      Umm, yes it did. "32X2E-CDR4L-AL7YY-EHQP8-F4GW? Replace the "?" with the correct character." How is th... : Hyrenguy
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        It didn't say that the '?' stands for an unknown/random char. It kinda sounded like there was a question/... : shurcool
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          The question mark is self explanatory. : DewFuel
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            Somewhat. Consider the code 5G7H3-X6X7? and replace the missing character with the last digit of the numb... : shurcool
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              Look at it this way: can you imagine any other way to specify to fill in a missing character? An undersco... : Hyrenguy
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                Also, while you're right about their being more than one possible meaning in the case of a question mark,... : Hyrenguy
                • True, but in the rush of trying to get it registered first, one probably doesn't have much time to double... : shurcool
              • I would say that something like this would've been more clear. I'm not arguing it would be better, but th... : shurcool
            • Why would you ever do that? Occam's razor, dude. : DewFuel

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• As a side note..I already own DOW2, and didn't bother participating in the contest. These are just observ... : unholydonuts
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  I assume it's just a way to increase awareness of their twitter feed, which I didn't even know existed un... : doctorbfunk
  • Yeah, pretty obvious, isn't it? : shurcool

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• I think you have to login to check your messages? Twitter n00b ===> : rslifka

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• Living on the edge : Durajim

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  seriously. when i saw the headline i figured i could just subscribe and the winners would be randomly cho... : feek
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    i appreciate the fact that shit's being given away, though! but im just not even going to bother trying. : feek
    • Same for me really - I love the fact stuff is getting given away I just can't put any time into it so I g... : jbury
• the fact i had to sign up for twitter was enough to keep me away : TPSReport

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• Or type the code in reverse. That'd be funny. : shurcool

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• haha yeah. People whine about Gamefly bringing the shack down... I'd rather cleanse out all the ungratefu... : aeg1x
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  To be fair they're mostly the front page commenters. : Bamtan
  • yea - and all of them can diaf... : dedgecko
• Twitter is one of those things that people assume is only used by attentionwhores and teenagers, because ... : zehh
• I agree with that. fuck the haters, its as good a way to give out stuff as anything. involves the people ... : barichnikov

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  You do realize that the code was to be posted at 2pm CST, right? :D : yoonix
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    2pm PST actually. : robosextoid
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      LOL so he was two hours late? wow... : gexecuter
      • Huh? The contest was at 2pm PST, which is 4:00pm CST for me. I wasn't late lol. : Confrustrating

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• Do what I did! Sell your blood! Imma go pass out now. : Hyrenguy

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  Yes, yes it was, first letter I tried, 4 seconds after it was posted >_<, someone has fingers made of lig... : Durajim
  • It was the 4th one I guessed : doctorbfunk
  • argh... i've tried it few seconds later... ah well, gratulations to any lucky bastard that won ;) : BornKiler

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• Tomorrow and next day. : imcompa

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• It's a social networking tool designed to enable you to tell your friends how stinky your farts are, how ... : TheIneffableBob
• It lets everybody know what you are doing so the government doesn't need to try so hard and monitor you. : Johnnsen
• It's a sort of a social network that allows people to talk to themselves cooperatively. Seriously thou... : zehh

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• Word. Twitter is the ultimate corporate sellout. All the execs at my company have such a hardon for it ... : james t kirk
• Things I don't use/understand are crap - araczynski : ColoradoCNC
• theres nothing wrong with facebook myspace or twitter, some people like games some people like social net... : kempps

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  You actually have to. If you dont have Steam installed it will install it for you. If you already do the ... : PinPalsApu
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    So I won't need the discs in the future? That's good. I would only buy retail so I don't have to download... : doctorbfunk
    • I don't think I've redownloaded anything from Steam in a year or so. I just keep my Steam folder on a dif... : aqtrans

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• Congrats. : DrWaffles
• lies! : dedgecko
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  actually - what happens if someone enters the same key? does the code activate one time only? : dedgecko
  • Yup. I checked with the old code, it states that it's already been used, and is invalid. : GrimmyD
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    yeah... that's how I knew it was 8, and I had lost. :( Grats though GrimmyD : Crastabule
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      tyvm! I'm pretty happy, as it's the second Shack contest I've won, but the first in which I actually reci... : GrimmyD
      • LOL... yeah, I won the "Kane" C&C III contest, but since I haven't been PM'ed in the 4-5 years I've lurke... : Crastabule
• Grats man, lucky bastard :) : rslifka
• Grats! I bought it tonight and am still DLing... : jigstah

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• And as for who I'm following, here's the list... tikibartv, --- Video podcast shacknews, Projec... : Mad_Doggie
• List of game devs and press' Twitter accounts: http://gameindustrytweet.com/ : rudds
• I think you mean http://www.twhirl.org/ : GrimmyD

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• I kno rite : Clench

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  Well, 5 hours wasted for me only to be confused as shit what I was supposed to do. : Confrustrating
  • Same - thought it was some clue before i realized i was just supposed to guess. : rslifka
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    I was thinking.. ahh it must be in the thread, then I was like maybe there will be a riddle or something.... : Ratalon
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      My biggest complaint is the fact that it was said it was going to be posted randomly sometime during the ... : Confrustrating
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        laff or you could just sign up for the alerts as originally requested in the contest... email txt mes... : dedgecko
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          Regardless, how was I supposed to know that it was all of the sudden going to change to 25 minutes? Like ... : Confrustrating
          • Yep, they've changed the rules mid game. It sucks to get the 25 min notice for people who were aware/refr... : shurcool

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• Correct character? What the hell was that? : moogle
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  Wow.. bullshit. : Confrustrating
  • QFT : rslifka

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• You got your fingers set on Ctrl and C already? Don't let your hand shake too much, or else you'll cli... : shurcool

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• rm -rf / : DrWaffles

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  Sounds like something Gamefly would do, not the Shack. : watcherxp
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    It's just another way to randomize the winner. : Nick Breckon
    • Interesting idea for a giveaway, but I don't think randomize is the right word here. The people with the... : OmegaRed59
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    i agree...this feels off - like hey we (gamefly) just made a deal with Twitter so now contests run throug... : nepharious
    • Oh come on. That's silly on so many levels. It takes a lot of effort to keep contests fresh and this ... : geedeck
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  It's a contest to be the most 2.0 you can be. Get Twitter on your computer, your laptop, your phone, your... : A Sponge
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    OK , that's better, thanks. : watcherxp
    • Implanting a microchip into your forearm which lets people online track you by GPS and control basic musc : A Sponge
  • get webcams too. so we can have video of the person who was 0.5 seconds too late yelling FFFFUUUUUUUUUUU : ]pm[chem
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  seriously. this is the stupidest thing ever. Its not random like Nick said, its endurance. Or better y... : amrbean
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    Who says we're only giving them away during work hours? : Nick Breckon
    • in our global internet world, it's always working hours somewhere. : Old_Fart
  • Actually, those who don't have work lose. All except one lucky guy. The rest of ppl who have work can ... : shurcool
• lots of gaming-related people give stuff away on Twitter. GeorgeB3DR has given away codes for Duke 3D on ... : MisterPhoton

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  so? by the time you get to a comp to and type in the code, someone will have already copied & pasted it i... : Nation
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    Then you'll have to hope you're at a computer then, won't you? : geedeck
    • I was at a computer once... and it touched me... well... I don't want to talk about it anymore. : Crastabule

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  I'm okay with that. : Nick Breckon
  • I still have more followers. : mittense

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• I didn't see myself ever signing up on it, I saw no point. About the only way I would is, well, free g... : Confrustrating
• Yeah, me too. I doubt I'll be using it much, my life's pretty boring so there's nothing exciting to up... : shurcool

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  this is pretty sweet, and anyone that goes through scripting that deserves it. :( i just wish i could : barichnikov
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    Yeah, I agree there, so long as they don't exploit it. : Sailor of Fortune
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      meaning taking all five keys. : Sailor of Fortune
      • yeah obviously : barichnikov

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• I hate you now : Johnnsen
• Me too. : Don Soleone

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• I am such an old man. I just started an account for this, then felt weird and dirty and then instantly de... : gooblerampling

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• But with that being said - I just sleep all day. Surely I'll sleep past it. :D : Confrustrating