massive-giveaways posts

For those of you who were with us from the very first day, you'll undoubtedly remember the huge, nay Massive giveaway we did for the launch of both Massively, and Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa! After a full 24 hours of giveaways, requiring some tag-team lead work to ensure all day and night coverage, many pots of coffee, and many (no, really -- many) emails later, we wanted to make sure we listed all the people who won something on that very first day. (If we missed anyone in the listing, we sincerely apologize, but there was quite literally a small army of you!) Congrats to all of you!

Winners: DJTyrant, Mike, Scott, Moragaine, Burgdorn, Phillip, Efigyuge, Kyle, Aaron, rshum, Jaime T., BooLeiU, Rex, JackFrostt, Rudy, lavagoat, TwistedBishop, Chris, Finalpro, Jerry, Ryan O, Hammerfel, Squatch, Ghen, Sam, Xavier R., Arlendor, Bigfoot, Darrel H., sevendegrees, Pidge, Tom, mrbitter, Phillip, tecnocrat, Hardtarget, juicehandy, Steve, Nuleren, David, fattycop, davee, Chok, Bryce, VerticyX, Alex, Reise, Sam (another Sam), Psyclerk, UnknownGamer, mrbitter, Sil, sevendegrees, Finalpro, Robert H., Demolina, JD, nothingshocking, and finally, our lucky iPod winner, Shawn!

Ah, Turbine. The MMO company that has the titles that make lore-lovers and tabletop players happy. For those of you who were around in the earliest days here at Massively, you'll be glad to know that we've finally gotten all responses back from our Turbine contests, and are pleased to be able to announce the winners in our Turbine giveaways! Each of the following folks won the goodies noted next to their names:

• A copy of Lord of the Rings Online went out to both TypicalJeff and Red
• Graz1026 and Gemki both landed copies of Dungeons & Dragons Online
• Jan and erthwjim got a copy of Asheron's Call each.
  
• Lord of the Ming and Robert H. managed to score fantastic Turbine t-shirts
• TypicalJeff got the love of the random number generator and landed a copy of the LotRO game guide to go along with the copy of the game he got. (See? you should enter every time! You never know what will happen.)
  
• Reverseshoe made off like a mad bandit, winning the highly coveted Lifetime LotRO subscription we were giving away!

A hearty congrats to all of our winners, and a reminder to everyone to be sure and white-list both massively.com and weblogsinc.com so you don't miss out on prize mails! There's nothing quite as disappointing as realizing too late that you missed a prize mail, and thus missed a killer prize. Don't let it be you!

More and more winners are replying to those ever-crucial emails, and the results are rolling in! That's right, we have the names of the winners from the two Age of Conan giveaways we did for our launch! For those of you who missed out, these two lucky winners have each landed their very own Ideazon Z-Board gaming keyboards! (Well, we couldn't very well give out copies of the game yet.)

So to end the suspense, we'd like to send out massive congrats to Twoworms and Excelsior for being the two lucky winners of the Ideazon Z-Boards! When they bring out the Age of Conan keypads, be sure to let us know how those work, eh? We suspect the extra edge in those fatality moves will be handy to have.

We want to take this time to thank you for making this an incredibly massive launch. We've hit the ground running and hope we have become your can't-live-without-it daily MMO site since then. As we stated when we first opened, we've put in lots of hard work on designing the site that we wanted to see, dreamed up by our team of passionate gamers and talented designers. Your response has shown us that we've got our feet on the right path. From here, we're looking to refine our content and bring you more of what you're hungry for.

For our final launch giveaway, we are offering you the chance to win a fantastic window into all of the myriad worlds we feature here at Massively. One lucky person will gain not only a much wider view in their chosen world, but they will also land some serious bragging rights with a fabulous 24" Samsung SyncMaster 245BW LCD monitor! This sleek monitor features a 16:10 widescreen, and a 5ms response time with a 1000:1 contrast ratio. To win, you must be 18+, a U.S. resident, and otherwise acceptable under the official rules. Comments must be left by no later than 12:00 PM Midnight Eastern U.S. time on 11/19/07 to be eligible. You may enter once per day between now and then as well, so be sure to come back every day this weekend and enter to win both the GeForce 8800 PCI-E video card and this sweet monitor!

Let us finish by saying that we're glad you decided to join us here at Massively. As always, if you want to get in contact with us at any time to give us either your cheers or jeers (or hot gaming tips) just drop us a note via our Contact Us form on the top right-hand side of the site under the search box. Good luck!

[EDIT] - We have decided to extend the contest unti 11:59 PM Eastern tonight (11/19) -- so get your comments in!

[EDIT, THE SECOND] - This contest is closed. We will be announcing a winner shortly. Thanks!

So here we are, two weeks in from our official launch of Massively. You've had a chance to peruse our news, views, guides, and more. On the back end, we've been putting our staff through their paces, and we're glad to say that they've come out with flying colors. But today what we want to focus on, dear readers, is you. Each and every person has a different gaming love, homes that span from the Amarr Empire in EVE to the soggy swamps of Zangarmarsh in World of Warcraft. All of these virtual worlds are important to us because they're important to you. As such, we're spending today thanking you for bringing us into your online lives, and letting us share in your worlds.

For today's first giveaway, we are offering a monster video card for all your virtual world needs. That's right, one lucky person will walk away with an EVGI 8800 GeForce 320Mb PCI-E SLI-compatible video card. This card features a PCI Express x16 interface, 320 MB of RAM, and dual RAMDACs running at 400 MHz for faster refresh rates even at high resolutions. We haven't heard of a game out currently that this card doesn't scream through. And you could be the lucky winner if you're 18+, a U.S. resident, and otherwise acceptable under the official rules. Comments must be left by no later than 12:00 PM Midnight Eastern U.S. time on 11/19/07 to be eligible. You may enter once per day between now and then as well, so be sure to come back every day!

While all you need to do to be entered is to leave a quick comment below, we'd greatly appreciate your thoughts on the games we've been covering. Do you like the level of coverage your favorite game is getting? Are we missing some games that you think are fantastic? If you'd let us know, we'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

[EDIT] - We have decided to extend the contest unti 11:59 PM Eastern tonight (11/19) -- so get your comments in!

[EDIT, THE SECOND] - This contest is closed. We will be announcing a winner shortly. Thanks!