Shop at GameStop, Become a Borderlands 2 NPC

[redknightalex]

Kiwi here as well, we never seem to get any gaming promotions remotely like this. We usually even get screwed over with collector editions, over pricing and later release times. Yet we don't even get the chances for things like this too.

I used to work at The Gamesman before EB/Gamestop bought out the company, I hated their business practices so I left, but at least we ran our own competitions. We even had gaming events at our store from time to time, was great.

But overall, we get screwed constantly. We pay way more, but get the same or less a lot of the time.

Well, seeing as Gearbox is a company from Houston, TX in the States, I'm guessing it's a business as well as a legal thing to keep this competition in the States. It's also a contest and the odds of winning such a deal is pretty damn low. You and many other people from the States will be missing out on the same thing so I think, overall, the scale is even...when we take into account that getting to a US GameStop is not being put into consideration.

As for other things not related to the actual competition, prices do suck in other regions but I also don't hear about the Japanese complaining about exclusives they don't get or the price they pay for games. And, theoretically, if you're so upset with the pricing scheme, why are you buying the games? Boycott!

Most of that wasn't my point. I'm really trying to say that complaining, the majority of the time, gets us nowhere. I think my point is better exemplified by the fact that complaining does nothing for us, any of us, on a whole. In my experience, complaining makes the listeners feel worse and the complainer feel no less better (unless, for some reason, they get what they want). My two whatevers.

 

[antipunt]

Pfft.. whatever. I'd probably just lose by a landslide anyways. Never won a raffle in my life. EVER EVER EVER

/cries in a corner

 

[gamegod25]

So if the contest ends Sep 29 (and the game is released the 19th) are they gonna add the winner as part of a DLC/update? *scratches head*

The winner of the contest will be given a trip for two to the Gearbox studio in Texas to meet the Borderlands 2 development team and be motion-captured for an appearance as an NPC in a future DLC release.

Here you go.

Borderlands 2 is getting some serious promotions left and right AND it's one of the greatly anticipated upcoming games. If this doesn't get stellar sales, than all marketing can go stuff itself for being proven useless.

Ah okay I missed that part, thanks.

Still while rare this kind of contest prize has been done before. And while it does sounds very appealing the fact that it's Gamestop makes me hope that it doesn't increase sales there. Maybe I'll mail in an entry just for the hell of it since I haven't won any contest in probly a decade.