Hi all, i'd like to post something here about a give away I entered on 29th June 2011.
Husky ran a giveaway for 20 crysis 2 cd-keys which I won and was very excited, few days passed i hadn't received the key so i contacted him on facebook and he said he was sending them out, since then I have attempted to contact him on a weekly basis via youtube/twitter/facebook.
There was also other's who won that sent me pm's via youtube asking if I received my key. Anyways I managed to get in contact with Totalbiscuit and he said he would send husky my way, I also sent him an email tonight and he got back to me, the email said the following:
Hi!
Thanks for contacting me. Unfortunately with these give aways I was doing it through YouTube PM's and YouTube blocked me for 'spam'. It also deleted some of the messages and was no way to track which ones had gone through and which ones had been blocked/deleted.
I find this extremely poor from such a big youtuber the point here is not about the cd-key but mainly taking so long to reply(months) and it clearly effected the other's who PM'ed me, from the same draw.
The video in question is:
Just please be wary when entering these draws, thanks for reading(if you did)
I'm sorry but people are going to still join husky give aways, I sympathize with what happened to you but if you can try not to let it hurt your opinion of Husky, the whole appeal of esports is that these guys we look up to are just like us, which also means they make mistakes, so throw the dog a bone
On February 25 2012 11:30 Kolvacs wrote: I dont seem to understand, there was an issue and you didnt get your FREE key? not really sure how it's Husky's fault...
Signing up to a contest with the prize of a cd-key to a game, and winning that contest should result in the reward of a cd-key, but my main problem is not the cd-key it's self its the response time of many months to give the answer he gave.
On February 25 2012 11:31 Skilledblob wrote: so you feel entitled to free stuff you won in a free lottery on a free page?
Well, honestly, if someone makes a lottery and says "If you do this, you will get X" and you do it, and you don't get your prize -- it's kind of a dick move. Just because it's free doesn't give the right to hold out on a promise.
Anyways, should probably be a blog. We don't know how truthful OP is being anyways.
Youtubes inbox is a literally hell reincarnated into an online messaging service, It's awful and when you're as popular as Husky, it's nearly impossible to use. Many youtubers give out there emails specifically to handle messages as youtube is quite bad. I wouldn't raise the pitchforks
dude.... wah wah -____- was it not free..... and only took a minute of your time... I am sure husky is pretty busy anyhow, he is always casting and whatnot
On February 25 2012 11:31 Skilledblob wrote: so you feel entitled to free stuff you won in a free lottery on a free page?
Well, honestly, if someone makes a lottery and says "If you do this, you will get X" and you do it, and you don't get your prize -- it's kind of a dick move. Just because it's free doesn't give the right to hold out on a promise.
Anyways, should probably be a blog. We don't know how truthful OP is being anyways.
well yes it sucks that he didnt get it in the end but really it's not something to make a big fuss about. He didnt even have to do anything special just write a comment.
On February 25 2012 11:34 BreakfastBurrito wrote: dude.... wah wah -____- was it not free..... and only took a minute of your time... I am sure husky is pretty busy anyhow, he is always casting and whatnot
Okay lets put it in perspective here, you sign up for a chance to win a free MLG stream pass for this weekend, you win and they don't send you the pass.
You would be pretty mad about that right? So you send them an email etc asking why you didn't get it and it takes months to get a response saying the message got blocked.
On February 25 2012 11:34 BreakfastBurrito wrote: dude.... wah wah -____- was it not free..... and only took a minute of your time... I am sure husky is pretty busy anyhow, he is always casting and whatnot
Okay lets put it in perspective here, you sign up for a chance to win a free MLG stream pass for this weekend, you win and they don't send you the pass.
You would be pretty mad about that right? So you send them an email etc asking why you didn't get it and it takes months to get a response saying the message got blocked.
In my opinion thats fine, Im watching the stream now and it looks like shit anyways. Husky has a lot on his plate. Hes 1 person, not a corp. Cut the guy some slack