No, because it trivializes terminal illnesses to award beta keys for having one.
How exactly does having a beta key trivialize a terminal illness?
I feel like you’re just projecting
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Because it makes having one a commodity that can be used to garner fake sympathy for a key. Kinda like my original post where I also asked for a key due to my terminal illness and how that upset people.
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Give this player beta!!
I’ll give you beer if you do. 
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In no way does that make terminal illness less significant, important, or serious.
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Your context was written like someone being sarcastic. You’re aware of that already though.
Anyway I’ve got to try to get more sleep. I hope you get a beta key too. God bless.
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But why did it come across as sarcastic? Because it came across as someone wanting to use a terminal illness (fake or otherwise) as justification for getting beta access; this is what I mean by commodification.
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Ye, night . Had enough of the forums for the day
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Warranted. No sense in arguing with someone who ignores the majority of points they know they cannot refute in favour of needless argument and opposition.
I knew Trolls eat hearts but I didn’t know some grew up without one.
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Beta isn’t really a ‘reward’. It is often just frustrating.
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I get that people feel sorry for this person. But what makes you people so sure getting beta would be considered a ‘positive’…
He’s asking for it. Lol
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Might have better luck asking people who have keys to spare.
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All I could do is play beta and stream it to them as they direct where to go. If I had a key to give I’d def let him have one.
That he needs a heart and kidneys it’s rough there…gotta find a suitable donor and they need to move fast after death to get the organ heart especially into a new body otherwise rush tissue death. If it were just kidneys one could work fine.
I’m hoping for them. I think it would also need to be a universal donor to get from since it’s easier to not have rejection?
I’m O- and thus a universal donor of blood but idk if the same applies to organs. I do need to donate blood more often though…only done it once I’m kinda squeamish about needles in the arm xP
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Awwww, just now learning about that thread (previously assumed it was just another generic “i’m quitting” post and scrolled past it)
Too bad we can’t “donate” our beta access, I would donate mine to that guy in a heartbeat 
It’s not like I’ve been doing much with it anyways, this is me the past 2 weeks or so:
- login to retail to collect mission table gold/goodies/send followers on missions
- logout
- log over to Wrath classic for some casual leveling for a few hours
- just before bed, log back into retail to collect mission table gold/goodies/send followers on missions
- rinse/repeat from #1 the next day
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the person OP made the thread for never
Out of the 50/50 chance that this was a ruse to get a beta key, who cares? It’s a BETA, a unsignificant amount of time to test an upcoming expansion in a VIDEO GAME.
If I had the power, I would take my chances in this case to maybe give someone that little bit of strength that might change their path. I would jest the risk is worth it for 9 out of 10 people, you lose nothing, you gain a potential life spending the little time they have left doing something they love.
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You cannot. The portal is there. You can’t enter it. That stuff will not be added to the PTR until launch.
I know you want to be nice, but this guy has 3 threads now asking for a key.
Blizzard also does not take individual requests for access. They have, in the past, partnered with Make A Wish to allow a player some special access, a quest, etc. I don’t think they have any current partnerships with hospice programs/hospitals/charities that would gain patients access to Betas. It is not a bad idea actually. Game companies could certainly get some positive PR by partnering with hospitals and the patients would have something engaging to focus on instead of hospice care. Win for everyone I would think.
Customer Support thread
Was told how to get the keys from streamers and such. Said it was too much work.
And another thread.
Really, Blizz does not give out keys like this. It would be part of a program.
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