Gamers: what follows are the N4G contests for the month of September. Winners from August will be announced in the coming days. Should these September contests only whet your appetite, remember to stay tuned to this blogspace for additional swag-related contests as PAX previews and reviews go live.
LOYAL READER LOTTERY:
We will continue our Loyal Reader Lottery! When you visit N4G at least once during every 24 hour period during the month of September you are entered into our Loyal Reader Lottery! If you want to keep track you can follow along with your Daily Visit score*, so if you want to make sure you've logged in during a 24 hour period check this score on your profile!
Prize: OnLive Game Console plus Wireless Controller
BEST USER BLOG:
You must post a User Blog in the month of September! The top two User Blogs as voted by staff and the ten most active members of the month win! There's no limit to how many wonderful User Blogs you can write and enter, anything you author here on N4G during the month of September will be eligible.
Prizes: TWO winners will be chosen and receive $100 Amazon Gift Cards!
BEST USER Review:
You must post a User Review in the month of September! The top two User Reviews as voted by staff and the ten most active members of the month win! There's no limit to how many wonderful User Reviews you can write and enter, anything you author here on N4G during the month of September will be eligible.
Prizes: TWO winners will be chosen and receive $100 Amazon Gift Cards!
CONTRIBUTOR CONTEST:
Submit news and get a top 2 News ranking in September and you can win up to three games!
The prizes are:
1st: 3 Games of Choice (standard edition)
2nd: 2 Games of Choice (standard edition)
FORUM LOTTERY:
Post on the forums during the month of September! Two winners will be chosen at random and will each receive $60 Amazon gift cards!
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*Just a note: I'm sorry the Daily Visit score isn't more 'every day' instead of its current 'every 24h1m', but that is just the front end tracking for you guys and when we run the lotto we pull from a more accurate list. So for those of you visiting every day diligently but not triggering the Daily Visit score reward, don't stress about it!
- Contests are NOT limited to the US/NA.
- You have to be willing to provide a valid mailing address and/or email address as these are physical prizes. At the end of the month winners will be contacted on N4G via PM or Contest Ticket.
More Info on the Forum Lottery (what follows ONLY applies to the Forum Lottery):
What it is
-a monthly lottery contest where the winner(s) will receive various prizes.
How it works
-Using a random generator engine we choose a forum, active thread and a winner.
The finer details:
-Single post wonders, spammers, rude or offensive remarks all result in a DQ.
-The sub-forums located in the N4G related block (Announcements & Rules, contributor, etc) will not be eligible to win, nor will comments made within the Randomicity thread.
-You can only win the Forum Lottery once every six months.
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As always, let me know if you have any questions!
The armadillo returns.
Sony is apparently experimenting with an AI tool that will play the game for you when you are grinding away. A PlayStation patent for “auto-play” mode would simulate your gameplay style in certain environments and apply them to skip that section completely. This technology would likely be built directly into the cloud-based PlayStation Network and be a new feature that subscribers would have access to.
Hah! Either will never happen or publishers will charge you to use this AI. This concept would only exacerbate the problem we already have with GaaS.
doesnt that concept already exist tho?
buy dlc to get a ahead in games? money, weapon and exp dlc come to mind but yeh. one more thing for them.to potentially charge for.
Usually, for GaaS/Seasonal games, you'll have to perform actions to earn specific in-game currency to buy things for events. Then they sell the currency with real cash or a third-currency to then buy the in-game currency items (it's honestly truly bloated to hide that they're cheating you out of money). With this, they'll just give you items if you do something 50 times or the like and then charge you to have the game play it for you. It's better, right? No currency shenanigans, just play the game and we reward you! But, the truth is they'll inflate the amount of times you have to play through content just to get the same thing.
Why?
Why not just remove the Grindy part?
I hope it's not an excuse to make them worse, but optional if you pay
Duuro says: "I think the idea behind the movement is cool, but on the other hand, the execution and clear limitation of the platform somewhat undermine the whole thing."
Good luck to everybody ;)
I won the User Review contest a while back, am I still eligible?
man that 60$ gift card would be nice.
good luck all.
where are the results of the august winners?
Good Luck everyone.. Thanks Cat for these great contests.