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Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:27 am

Howdy, gents and not-so-gents.

First off, I wanted to announce that I shall be giving away a new retail copy of Half Life 2 as soon as it hits shelves. The more rabid of you I'm sure will be streaming it in via Steam, but for those who like a straight-up cardboard box, this is for you. You may start entering now, since I have a feeling it'll be out very soon. Send me your real name, address and why you deserve the game (just like the past giveaways). All of your information remains private and will be deleted after the drawing. Please include your forum nick as well.

Secondly, since I seem to be in the habit of doing these things, I've setup a new email address just for my TR giveaways: [email protected]

Use this one for the HL2 giveaway, and all future giveaways please.

*** The drawing will be held on Wednesday, November 17th. If the winner lives in the greater 48, you will have the game overnighted to you as soon as I get it (hopefully the 16th), so you'll have it to play for the weekend ***

Also, I plan on giving away a copy of Guild Wars when it hits, though I might ask that interested parties look into becoming a part of the TR Guild in my sig. That's a while away though. I guess I could give away the Beta Pre-order, which won't require any other media when the full game hits. Suggestions on that?

firerules16 · Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:30 am

Just sent an email to your giveaway address... you're awesome, I must say.

JavaDog · Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:46 am

Will you be my daddy?

Usacomp2k3 · Mon Sep 20, 2004 11:15 am

count me in

Bomber · Mon Sep 20, 2004 11:29 am

email sent

Good luck everyone!

Mon Sep 20, 2004 11:53 am

Again, please use [email protected] instead of the other accounts we've used in the past.

Nossirahdrof · Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:19 pm

Mwuahahahahahaha! Hahahahahahaha! Ahahahahahahaha! Yahahahahaha! Tremble!!!!!

(You'll get it when you get my e-mail).

firerules16 · Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:23 pm

Mwuahahahahahaha! Hahahahahahaha! Ahahahahahahaha! Yahahahahaha! Tremble!!!!!

Can we say SPAZ?? :lol:

Gandhi · Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:24 pm

Isn't it a bit early to run such a contest? After all, we don't even have a "gone-gold" announcement yet!

P.S. I sent you an email

Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:27 pm

Gandhi wrote:
Isn't it a bit early to run such a contest? After all, we don't even have a "gone-gold" announcement yet!

P.S. I sent you an email

True, but I like giving ample time, and I wanted feedback about the Guild Wars question.

Mon Sep 20, 2004 1:57 pm

you have gmail .. I get the impression that Guild Wars is a rpg .. anything like Dink Smallwood or KoL?

Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:06 pm

farmpuma wrote:
you have gmail .. I get the impression that Guild Wars is a rpg .. anything like Dink Smallwood or KoL?

http://guildwars.com/gameinfo/default.html

Guild Wars takes the best elements of today's massively multiplayer online games and combines them with a new mission-based design that eliminates the tedium of those games. You can meet new friends in towns or outposts, form a party, and then go tackle a quest together. Your party always has its own unique copy of the quest map, so camping, kill-stealing, and long lines to complete quests are all things of the past. Within a quest you have unprecedented freedom and power to manipulate the world around you: your magic can build bridges and open up new pathways, or it can burn down forests and tear the ground asunder.

You don't have to spend countless hours on a leveling treadmill to get to the interesting parts of the game, because combat is designed to be strategically interesting and challenging right from the beginning. You don't have to spend hours running around the world to prepare for a quest, because Guild Wars allows you to instantly travel to the beginning of any quest that you've previously unlocked. You'll never spend days playing only to discover that choices you made early on have left you with a permanently uncompetitive character, because the unique skill system in Guild Wars allows infinite experimentation but doesn't allow bad decisions to ruin a character. And you'll never meet new players only to discover that you can't play with them or compete against them because their characters are on a different server than yours; in Guild Wars, all characters live in one seamless world.

Built for Competition

After learning the game and building up your first character, you may choose to test your skills in head-to-head competition or guild warfare. The game is designed to reward player skill and teamwork, not time spent playing, so you won't need to spend hundreds of hours leveling up your character to compete.

The game includes integrated support for guilds, with guild banners and halls, chat rooms and forums. Guilds can challenge other guilds to battle, compete for control of key parts of the world, and be ranked on a worldwide ladder.

Unique Streaming Technology

ArenaNet's unique streaming technology forever eliminates the concept of patching a game. You don't have to wait a month for the next big patch to experience new content. Instead, the game constantly and intelligently streams new content to your computer in the background while you play. The world can change continually. This allows us to build a much more dynamic game world than any that has existed before.

element · Mon Sep 20, 2004 3:36 pm

Anyone can give away vaporware...
Oh that reminds me, I have 2 copies of Longhorn and 5 copies of Duke Nukem Forever to give away. Mail me. :roll:

Convert · Mon Sep 20, 2004 3:56 pm

element wrote:
Anyone can give away vaporware...
Oh that reminds me, I have 2 copies of Longhorn and 5 copies of Duke Nukem Forever to give away. Mail me.

I hope that you are merely playing around.

Anyways, email inbound. Thanks emkubed for your generosity.

Mon Sep 20, 2004 5:39 pm

element wrote:
Anyone can give away vaporware...
Oh that reminds me, I have 2 copies of Longhorn and 5 copies of Duke Nukem Forever to give away. Mail me.

If I was giving away Quake 27, that'd be one thing. That I'm giving away a copy of a game that is mere weeks away from completion is another alltogether.

element · Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:32 am

emkubed wrote:
element wrote:
Anyone can give away vaporware...
Oh that reminds me, I have 2 copies of Longhorn and 5 copies of Duke Nukem Forever to give away. Mail me.

If I was giving away Quake 27, that'd be one thing. That I'm giving away a copy of a game that is mere weeks away from completion is another alltogether.

Guess you haven't read this: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/09/20 ... 07712.html
Besides, as long as it isn't on the shelfs in shops or available for download, it's vaporware.

Emkubed, maybe you also have a copy of Team Fortress 2 to give away? :wink:

j/k

Tue Sep 21, 2004 4:20 am

element wrote:
emkubed wrote:
element wrote:
Anyone can give away vaporware...
Oh that reminds me, I have 2 copies of Longhorn and 5 copies of Duke Nukem Forever to give away. Mail me.

If I was giving away Quake 27, that'd be one thing. That I'm giving away a copy of a game that is mere weeks away from completion is another alltogether.

Guess you haven't read this: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/09/20 ... 07712.html
Besides, as long as it isn't on the shelfs in shops or available for download, it's vaporware.

Emkubed, maybe you also have a copy of Team Fortress 2 to give away? j/k

So a 2 year old legal battle means the game whos assets have already begun to slip in over Steam is just vaporware? Unlikely. Stop crapping in my thread.

Illissius · Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:29 am

Whoa, you got [email protected]? You could probably sell that for money.

Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:43 am

Illissius wrote:
Whoa, you got [email protected]? You could probably sell that for money.

Yes. Bonus.

Usacomp2k3 · Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:00 pm

Zubrik · Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:02 am

Sweetness...... email sent

Beafy · Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:31 am

Email sent.

flip-mode · Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:23 pm

Rockin! Much love to embuked.

Email sent.

Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:26 pm

Surprisingly few entries so far, but keep 'em rolling in. I may have a separate drawing for all those who misspell my name.... remember, it's M^3.

Klyith · Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:18 pm

Well, I'll join in though I feel weird, what with having been a forum member for less than a month.

Your giveaway idea is very cool. I may have to copy it if I have something aroundd here that I don't need anymore... More fun than ebay!

Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:32 pm

Some people sign up to the forums just to enter, so please submit if you like.

Yale · Thu Sep 23, 2004 3:09 pm

*enters*

hmmm · Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:38 pm

What is element's problem? emkubed does another awesome giveaway and someone is giving him crap for it. No good deed goes unpunished, it would seem. Thanks for the giveaway, emkubed. E-mail sent.

getbornagain · Thu Sep 23, 2004 9:32 pm

you fools! quit the bumping, fewer bumps, the better for us who've entered!

doh!

mstrmold · Thu Sep 23, 2004 9:56 pm

email sent. Thanks for putting this contest up. Might I ask if this is out of pocket, or, did you get a copy via your work?

-E

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