Microsoft and Coke give away 3 million points |
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| BY Chad George Mar. 19th, 2009 | More on: |
Coca-Cola has apparently teamed up with Microsoft to give away 3 million Microsoft Points on a “first come, first served” basis. The two ginormous (yes, it is a real word) corporations will use Xbox Live to give away $37,000 in points this week as part of the Happiness Factory promotion. After winning the free points, users are directed to the Coke Zone to register their points and spend them on Xbox Live.
The giveaway has not started yet as of writing, we checked Xbox Live and the Xbox website for any mention of it and came up empty handed. No explanation of just what exactly this factory is all about either, other than happiness, but anytime the word ‘free’ is mentioned, we listen.
We at TVGB hope there are no problems with the “first come, first served” policy when the giveaway goes live. We also hope for a Fraggle Rock versus The Snorks death-match, bacon that tones abs, and articles that write themselves. Yeah, we’re dreamers like that.
March 19th, 2009
at 1:49 pm
For context, some sites reporting this have been gushing about the opportunity to maybe get points for a free arcade game or some DLC out of this.
3 million / 800 points = 3,750 people.
/400 points = 7,500 people.
Current xbox accounts in the UK = must be a couple million.
First come, first served.
7,501st come, not served.
Even at 200 points that’s only 15,000 people. And what use is 200 points these days with Connect 4 costing 800!!??? All you could get is an XNA game or some gamer pictures.
It sounds like a grand gesture from Coke (because it says millions) and free stuff is appreciated, but £25,000 is miniscule in terms of this advertising campaign.
March 19th, 2009
at 2:53 pm
Fraggles would destroy Snorks - No contest. Uncle Travelling Mac is a bad motherfucker!
March 19th, 2009
at 3:12 pm
@Yes - You’re correct in your math and that is a point I should have raised in the article. We all know this is about getting the name out by word of mouth, so what better way to do that than give “millions” away. Excellent point.
@Lee - You are assuming the Dozers wouldn’t defect to the Snork alliance. They are the unknown factor in the battle.
March 26th, 2009
at 7:56 am
I have yet to see any evidence that this promotion does or will exist. All articles on the web, such as this one, spread the rumor with ZERO evidence or references to official releases from Coke or Microsoft or ANYONE. So far it seems to me that someone fabricated this and it just caught on like wildfire. You can read 1,000 posts about this on gaming sites all over the Internet, but they all appear to just be quoting each other, with the same few sentences and sparse details. I’ll believe it when I see it, or at least when one of these “news” sites reports some actual valid, reliable information.
March 29th, 2009
at 9:36 am
haha it finished i got 1200 out of it
April 25th, 2009
at 11:31 pm
Chang,
That’s the way any media source works, the internet has amplified the echo chamber effect of the media at least 100,000 fold. It’s bad enough that real journalists aren’t doing fact checking anymore, but when amateur journalists just start referencing EACH OTHER, you know that you have problems are you are stuck in a world where it’s harder to discern fact from fiction.