Dear PR@Blizzard.com
Subject: Hearthstone Beta Press™ Request
Hello,
My name is nice try, NSA , aka Azuriel, and I run a gaming blog called In An Age (inanage.com) that has a focus on PC games. While the topic of my posts varies between what I’m playing, to game reviews, to MMO design critiques, I am especially passionate about my Beta Impression posts. I have wrote beta impressions about WoW expansions, Guild Wars 2, Darkfall, Card Hunter, and more. In fact, I just completed two more within the last week: Scrolls and SolForge.
I would be extremely honored if you allowed me to add Hearthstone to that list. By letting me in the Hearthstone beta. As a member of the Press™.
In return, I can promise you a minimum of one (1) brutally honest Beta Impression post, and possibly dozens more if the game is as amazing as it looks. In fact, since I would likely spend money in the store for the tournaments (as investigative journalism), you could almost say that I’m paying you for free advertising. Just think: a Hearthstone article by me could be seen by hundreds (!) of people! That’s a PR coup if I’ve ever seen one.
In any case, I want to thank you for your time, and stalwart support of the blogging community. Your willingness to give members of the Press™ (such as myself) beta keys is an inspiration to us all. Hopefully.
Shamefully yours,
– don’t doxx me, bro (aka Azuriel)
P.S. If you ever need to fill a slot on a Press™ tour of Blizzard HQ or on the WoW dev team, I am available.
Posted on August 22, 2013, in Hearthstone and tagged Beta, Hearthstone, PR@Blizzard.com, Press, Shameless. Bookmark the permalink. 17 Comments.
Let us now the result! :P
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If this somehow works, you guys will be the first to know.
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Shamefull! ; )
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Send an email/tweet to @CM_Zeriyah if you havn’t already. That seems to be the official contact for this sort of thing.
Based on past results this blog has a good chance to qualify you.
(And if you get a key because of this feel free to reward the messenger here) -.o
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Thanks for the tip. If I somehow get in, and assuming they give me addition keys, I will definitely return the favor.
In the meantime, I technically have some Card Hunter beta keys…
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I’ve been following Hearthstone Beta pretty closely since it started . Zeriyah seems to have been doing a great job with checking her email and sifting through the flood of spam/lame requests so far.
I’ll pass on the Card Hunter keys for now though =)
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Please do feel free to send one of those keys in my direction :) I’d like to test the game as I just dumped Kings and Legends (which is actually a lot more bad than it seems at first sight), so I actually have some time. TIA :)
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Sent you an email, Helistar. Assuming it’s the one you’re using for comments.
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Got the key, ty :)
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have wrote?
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Wait, wait, it never even occurred to me to write people all media(tm)-like to request beta. This is a good idea.
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I know, right? The Darkfall thing was completely unintentional: I simply responded to a blanket email on a whim, and bam, review copy. I haven’t heard back from Blizzard yet, and honestly don’t expect much, but hey: it’s just an email.
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Holy shit, nevermind! :o
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Do we have a winner? I didn’t think they’d be sending out anymore til next wave, even to PR people/ o.0
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Dude, congrats! I look forward to hearing your brutally honest impressions.
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Contacted Blizzard PR over a week ago for a press copy, never got back to me. Such a shame, was looking forward to writing up some content!
Either way, nice in-depth review of it. Also keyed me into balance issues I wasn’t quite expecting with Blizzard. But I guess that’s what Beta is for!
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