Free items + many people who want free items = chances of winning not so good
With no expectations I quickly stroked the keyboard with my entry in the form of a comment to the post...two days later Christmas came early for me.
Much to my delight (seriously, ask my wife. I kind of acted like this kid) I was informed that I had won the Splatterhouse, Terror Mask statue, and weird collapsible speakers giveaway. Me! Out of 704 people I was randomly chosen!
All right. Great job. You won. Well, here's where the story gets even more interesting. I got an email from Justin McElroy, who's the reviews editor at Joystiq. Long story short, there was a mistake made in the post about what system the game was on. I was supposed to receive an Xbox 360 copy of the game but all they had was the Playstation 3 version. So to make up for the error he ended up sweetening the deal.
Here's what I was supposed to receive:
-Splatterhouse for Xbox 360
-Terror mask statue
-Two speakers
Here's what I actually received:
-Two copies of Splatterhouse for Playstation 3
-Tom Clancy's HAWX 2 for Xbox 360
-Borderlands: Game of the Year for Xbox 360
-Terror mask statue
-Two speakers
-Some advice about the game industry from a well-known journalist at Joystiq
Pretty sweet, right? Here's a couple more pics.
That's it. I had my suspicions, but this just sealed it. You, in the several years I have known you, have won entirely too many contests! I demand to know how you are rigging them, and to be included in the distribution of the swag!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, cool blog. If there's anybody who should be writing about video games, it's you.