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500 MS Points and Gamepictures for GTA4 X Box 360 Preorder
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Felix Lighter
Member
How in the hell could this offer possibly be spun negatively? Geez, choose your battles, system warriors. There is nothing to get worked up over here.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Felix Lighter said:
You ever see that movie 28 Days Later? It was about these zombies, but it wasn't the slow kind? They were like rabid and super-fast? I think some mag-lock got jimmied and there's just a wild pack loose on every single 360-related thread, and most of the sane people have already been ripped apart.
Randy Lanzarote
Member
Well I pre-ordered mine from Game for £39.99;
- Double-reward points on my Game card (£2)
- 500 MS points (£5)
- 11% quidco (£4.40)
- Gamerpics lulz (infinite+1 lulz)
Yeah, I like my pre-order.
- Double-reward points on my Game card (£2)
- 500 MS points (£5)
- 11% quidco (£4.40)
- Gamerpics lulz (infinite+1 lulz)
Yeah, I like my pre-order.
Zombie James
Banned
Aurora said:
The PS3 version doesn't have mulitplayer now?
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Best Buy is offering a preorder of the GTA4 special edition with gamerpics and a poster. No Billy Bucks, tho...
GenericPseudonym
Banned
How well do you think GTA4 with 360 marketing + this +360 price cut is going to help MS in Europe?
squatingyeti
non-sanctioned troll
GenericPseudonym said:
We won't know. People will come in saying the PS3 is still killing the 360, when it could be very close. Without confirmed numbers, all we get is the stupid rants.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
... and the stupid rants are the reason why I love GAF...squatingyeti said:
Hey sionyboy, would you care explaining this quidco thing to me please?sionyboy said:Well I pre-ordered mine from Game for £39.99;
- Double-reward points on my Game card (£2)
- 500 MS points (£5)
- 11% quidco (£4.40)
- Gamerpics lulz (infinite+1 lulz)
Yeah, I like my pre-order.
So I have been sleeping under a rock. Is this PS3 exclusive? Really?_leech_ said:
Skilotonn said:
I realize it's still a fine deal since you're getting the 500 points. I'm just ridiculing the fact that they're using Gamerpics as an incentive, as if Gamerpics should hold any value whatsoever. It pisses me off that Microsoft is allowed to charge for things like these.
MWS Natural
Member
:lolPrine said:
ToyMachine228
Member
Maybe I missed something in the thread, but is this offer going to be valid for American retailers as well or don't we know yet?
Psychotext
Member
Go to quidco.com it's pretty cool if you spend a lot online.Aurora said:
Zombie James
Banned
Aurora said:
No. You're confused, you should re-read my original post.
_leech_ said:
For some reason you thought I was talking about DLC when I obviously meant multiplayer (unless the DLC is multiplayer-only and Silver users won't have access to it?).
Randy Lanzarote
Member
Aurora said:
Check www.quidco.com for a more thorough explanation, but I'll try my best to put it in basic terms.
You sign up for a quidco account, then when you go shopping on the internet you go to quidco, sign in and then follow their links to the stores you want to go to. You then get a certain percentage of how much you spend as cashback through quidco.
Think of it as if you are getting the advertising revenue that places like Yahoo/Google would get if you were clicking a link on their website. There is a fee to pay, the first £5 of money you make, but after that £5 the rest is yours to keep. If you don't make at least £5 back then don't worry, there is no charge.
There are loads of stores that are signed up to the scheme, they all differ in terms of what they offer back to you as a percentage. Example, Game.co.uk offer 11% on software, 3% on hardware, play.com is 4% across the board I think. If you are getting insurance, a new mobile phone, package holiday, changing gas/electric provider then its a must. I recently changed over to Three on one of their £15 monthly tariffs and got £32.50 back through quidco. If I'd gone for the £20 tariff I'd have got £65 instead.
TheExodu5 said:
Ridiculing free stuff? There's plenty of free pics available on Live in case you never knew...
And looking past everything else in the package, it's that that you're criticizing?
That's like winning money, and being pissed that the bag it came in was red - it's a silly criticism...
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
I wonder how many fewer posts we would have on GAF if GTAIV was no different on one console versus the other (DLC included). It seems both sides can't resist mixing it up over this.
Felix Lighter
Member
DenogginizerOS said:
I don't know. I don't think it would decrease the garbage. It would just change the topic. Instead of DLC arguments it would be about slight differences only the most dedicated would possibly notice. The game is huge and even smaller multiplatform games with minuscule differences spawn hundreds of posts of system wars nonsense. If it's not one thing it's another.
I'm still confused. Is the multiplayer available for both the 360 and PS3? If so then I don't understand how the PS3 has any advantage apart from the fact PSN is free._leech_ said:
Many thanks for that, I'll sign up right away!sionyboy said:
Such a shame I only found out about this now, I've spent hundreds online over the past year.
Felix Lighter
Member
Aurora said:
He only has a silver account. It tips the scales for him personally.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Felix Lighter said:
That's really not it. The thing that gets under most people's skin these days is the increasing evidence that MS is going to severely leverage this game and use it to carry the 360 to healthy quarter and thus potentially survive the MGS onslaught intact and maybe even gain some ground in the EU.
It's like, you ever see that movie Alien? It's about this space crew (and really cleverly they're made out to be basically just Truckers In Space) and they're knocked off one by one by this one alien who's basically an unstoppable killing machine. Anyway, there's this one bit where one of the dudes is in this vent and his buddies are watching his position on this radar thing and they (and consequently the viewer) can see this superfast blip approaching him and the dude has like no idea he's about to be food. It's SUPER tense.
Anyway, for some people this is like watching that really fast blip, and making noise is like trying to warn the dude in the vent, for some reason.
Willy Wanka
my god this avatar owns
GarthVaderUK said:
I wish I'd had the foresight to use the £5 code for this.
I did use the 'feboffer' one though so with a few reward points I'll probably get it close to the £30 mark
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
FoeHammer said:
Is that good or bad?
I'm guessing most of you probably do know about the film Alien, so maybe that was a bit redundant...
Beer Monkey
Member
Piper Az said:
Including free Psychonauts gamerpics, which are the most important gamerpics ever.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
beermonkey@tehbias said:
Don't forget the lovely new Drillbit Taylor pics, including the three kid protagonists who no one has ever seen in their lives.
FoeHammer said:
I should watch that movie. I need a leg up on my Giamatti before John Adams.
Zombie James
Banned
Aurora said:
Well, yea, that's the advantage. Goes back to my original point that I would gladly change my pre-order to the 360 version if they included a year of Gold instead of the 500 points (and if it was available in NA
). It's a great pre-order deal for people who've already made up their minds or are single-console owners, but it would do little to make me switch seeing as i'm Silver.speculawyer
Member
Damn it . . . the UK has a similar deal at one of the retailers . . . OFFER IT IN THE USA!
Felix Lighter
Member
BenjaminBirdie said:
I can definitely say, I've never thought of it like that.
Do these movie references pop into your head or do you think of a movie and challenge yourself to come up with a reference that is appropriate for the topic.
The earlier reference I got right away. This one I'm struggling with. The fast moving blips are who/what? Who does the doomed space trucker represent? Whose yelling?
Psychotext
Member
I've seen this sort of offer on a few 360 games in the UK lately. Wouldn't be surprised if it makes it over the pond.speculawyer said:
mildewproduction
Junior Member
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Felix Lighter said:
It's only one of the most famous scenes in the movie! Tom "If You See A Ghost Then" Skerritt is looking for the Alien (maybe? I forget...) in the vents throughout the ship and the Alien is closing in on him and the rest of the crew is watching the radar in another part of the ship. His blip is stationary and the Aliens is like RACING towards him and they're all like "DUDE! WTF!" but Skerritt can't hear them of course. And then, oh this is the best part, EVEN THOUGH YOU KNOW THE ALIEN IS THERE, because the movie just spent two minutes telling you explicitly the whole time where the Alien was, when Skerritt turns around and shines his flashlight on it, YOU STILL JUMP even though nothing jumped out at you or surprised you.
IT'S JUST THAT SCARY.
Man, that movie was so much better than every other shitty movie it spawned.
I'm not really sure who represents what, but it seemed like a fitting touchstone.
Felix Lighter said:
Ohhh right, terrible reading comprehension on my part._leech_ said:Well, yea, that's the advantage. Goes back to my original point that I would gladly change my pre-order to the 360 version if they included a year of Gold instead of the 500 points (and if it was available in NA
Why don't you get Gold though leech? Is this your protest against the injustice of having to pay?