ugh...of COURSE I didn't win, when I really needed to >.> you try not being able to get legit Minecraft any way possible and a lot of people entering that already own the game, if you guys EVER make another giveaway, make sure the entrants don't have Minecraft already. and I'm with others on Hi, if the account is inactive, they shouldn't be entered, it should not be automated for the PM'ing, that should be done manually to prevent things like that, same goes for the user Pretty who is BANNED.
I've been running cracked Minecraft since Beta 1.7 because that's the only way I can play it >.>
plus, those suggesting debit cards, they come in 25 and 50$ increments, for the prepaid ones, anyway, some have monthly fees that you can put any on. the game's 27, so you have to either pay double the cost of the game, or use a Credit/Debit card that's not prepaid, or paypal.
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Wow this is stupid. being on this forum since november, and some kind of kid called' hi' makes an account yesterday and wins it, this is just so unfair. i think people that joined the forums ages ago should win minecrfat, not some people that know nothing abot minecraft.
Um... Bro The "hi" person has had an account since October 2010..... Don't go assuming he's a newb.
There's no account named hi! THere person was clearly saying hi to them > So they scammed us > So there should still be one more ._. if not **** the forums for scamming.
We should blame Curse for scamming us! hi isn't even a real username on the forums.
Yes it is..... Look at the previos comments on this page. Someone has linked us a link to go check out his account...
dangit!!!!! I really want minecraft!!!! All my friends have it but me! and i cant play with them because they are so stupid that they dont know how to make their server offline!!!
Tell them to go to the server optons, and put online mod to "false"
yup, completely random. The process works in 3 stages:
1. Every comment on the Facebook status is loaded into a database:
2. A process runs that parses the comments and finds the usernames in each comment. Then it checks with minecraftforum.net if that account exists and if it does it stores the usernames and the account ID:
As you can see the columns on the far right are the MCF Username and MCF ID, for the first 2 people (Jonathon La, Tyler Christianson) the names they provided aren't valid (they are minecraft.net names, not minecraftforum.net names) so they get "0" and "0" set, which means they don't get entered.
3. A process runs that loads all the legitimate accounts into memory (everyone that has provided a valid MCF name), it then removes anyone from that list that has already won and removes duplicates (everyone only gets 1 entry) and it then picks 20 random names from that list, assigns them each a code from my database of valid codes and then it sends a private message to each one and outputs to me who they are.
So as long as you meet the following criteria:
1. Your username was posted on the Facebook post in the required fashion (just your username)
2. You have not won already
You are entered to win every time we randomly pick 20 winners.
If you comment again it won't hurt you, but no advantage unless you think the first time you posted your name might not have been valid etc.
We don't pick the people ourselves, we don't look at their profile, there is no possible way for bias. You entered a contest, with the possibility of winning something, you shouldn't have had the expectation of winning.
There are 100 total codes. There were 32 thousand comments on the Facebook page and 9 thousand likes. If only the likes were unique people, that means you had a 1.11% chance to win.
We know pretty is banned. She should have still received an email for her code, we also know "hi" hasn't been active, but they'd receive an email as well.
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I've been running cracked Minecraft since Beta 1.7 because that's the only way I can play it >.>
plus, those suggesting debit cards, they come in 25 and 50$ increments, for the prepaid ones, anyway, some have monthly fees that you can put any on. the game's 27, so you have to either pay double the cost of the game, or use a Credit/Debit card that's not prepaid, or paypal.
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Retired StaffWe don't pick the people ourselves, we don't look at their profile, there is no possible way for bias. You entered a contest, with the possibility of winning something, you shouldn't have had the expectation of winning.
There are 100 total codes. There were 32 thousand comments on the Facebook page and 9 thousand likes. If only the likes were unique people, that means you had a 1.11% chance to win.
We know pretty is banned. She should have still received an email for her code, we also know "hi" hasn't been active, but they'd receive an email as well.
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100 poeple to win and only about 26 and a half million poeple have registered and you say we'll ALL get lucky? Impossible!!! D:
Oh well... Congrats to all the winners.
GIVE IT TO ME!!
Well, keep it, but if you wanna give it away. GIMEEE!!!
(Seriously if you're giving it away I'm here :P)