Gamer Wins 500,000 World Of Warcraft GoldOver an approximately 60 day period beginning May 1st of this year, thousands of World of Warcraft players logged onto wowgoldpig.blogspot.com to register for a chance to win 500,000 wow gold, which, at current conversion rates, has a "street value" of about $5,000 USD.
Contest entry rules required onlyWorld of Warcraft Gold that players register and submit a name for WoW Gold Pig's Twitter mascot. The Pig team is comprised of avid online game players who are also very active in social media networks. Based on their belief that there is significant overlap between online game players and those who are active in online communities in general, the team felt that a contest recognizing that overlap would beDon Ed Hardy well received. Even so, they were surprised at the large and overwhelmingly positive response from the community.
Blogging was the only marketing effort used EVE ISKto drive awareness about the contest; some members focused on a "tweet campaign" while others blogged on various social networking and industry blog sites such as Facebook, MySpace and WowGoldFacts.com
After all the votes were counted, the Pig is pleased wow goldto announce the winning entry, Pigasus, which made it into the top 30 entrants on July 7th and went on to amass more than 1500 votes for first place during the final voting phase, to emerge the clear winner!
Pigasus was submitted by Chris, who resides in the United States. Chris will receive five hundred thousand World of Warcraft game gold, courtesy of WoWGoldPig.com. Chris adds, “You’ve made me and my wife very happy, knowing [that] we will be able to spare no expense on our [World of Warcraft] toons now.” The Pig will post an in-depth interview with Chris on the blog within the week, where you will be able to discover how he specifically intends to spend his contest winnings.
Pigasus is now the official name of the WoW Gold Pig Twitter mascot and will be used on Twitter, site graphics and other promotional materials. According to WoW Gold Pig marketing executive and spokesperson Nick Gardner “We’re very happy with the promotion. Twitter, blogging and other social networks allow us to really connect with online gamers and enables us to both participate and contribute to the larger community.”