Sign up for Xbox.com's rather large GTAIV giveaway

by Dustin Burg { Mar 2nd 2008 at 5:15PM }

Hurry up children and make your way over to Xbox.com and sign up for a huge Grand Theft Auto IV Sweepstakes giveaway. A hugely huge giveaway that includes over 20,000 prizes ranging from Microsoft points to Xbox Live subscriptions to a a trip to New York to experience the GTAIV launch. A prize packages that comes complete with guns, scantily clad women and drugs ... or so that is what's expected. We're not entirely sure if this giveaway is the same one that was supposed to be "exclusive" to purchasers of the GTAIV Special Edition, but we really don't care all that much. We're satisfied by the fact that we can enter this massive giveaway with the click of a mouse button. And speaking of clicking. Be sure to click your mouse over to the official GTAIV Sweepstakes page and register by April 14th when this whole sweepstakes thingy wraps up. Good luck!

Tags: grand-theft-auto-iv, gtaiv, rockstar, rockstar-games, xboxcom

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

mcwattersm @ Mar 2nd 2008 5:21PM

DAMNIT. Canadians can't enter.

Adam @ Mar 2nd 2008 5:34PM

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You cannot sign up for Grand Theft Auto IV Sweepstakes because this program is not offered in your region.

Nor can UK, boo.

Chris @ Mar 2nd 2008 5:43PM

fuckin US only again !!!! when do UK get chance to enter these giveaways. Its a piss take

flameofdoom666 @ Mar 2nd 2008 5:46PM

I never win this sort of stuff- but I entered anyway.

you know... @ Mar 2nd 2008 5:47PM

God damn it! Americans get everything. I bet Microsoft doesn't even know where Canada is...

DemonGSides @ Mar 2nd 2008 5:48PM

I can't access it, and I'm 18, a legal US citizen, and everything.

What ever.

Neuromancer @ Mar 2nd 2008 5:53PM

USA!!! USA!!!

Sorry guys. =o

YoRone22 @ Mar 2nd 2008 5:54PM

Oh do I want the Rockstar Baseball Bat. :P

hael @ Mar 2nd 2008 5:59PM

after enterting and getting to the page where it asks you to checkbox the "I agree to... blah blah blah," there is a box for entry of your e-mail address again. Everytime I try to click the box to type in my name, it doesn't let me. So, I just checkbox and accept anyway.

Does this happen for anyone else? Is anyone able to enter their e-mail address on this second page?

Chris @ Mar 2nd 2008 6:01PM

ive sent xbox a pissy email moaning at US get preference in everything. Cheaper games cheaper hardware and sole entry to comps.
anyone have an email for a complaints department.

you know... @ Mar 2nd 2008 6:08PM

I have an email about xbox service (i think it is mostly for repairs) but I got good response from it, they even called me and talked to me about my xbox failures, I went through 3 consoles in 1 month, got a replacement and then it failed two days after so I emailed these guys... heres the email: XSERSURV@MICROSOFT.COM

Neuromancer @ Mar 2nd 2008 6:16PM

Maybe they just don't want to have to fly someone from the other side of the world to New York for this thing. If you're from Canada I can see complaining, Canada is practically America for all intents and purposes. But if you're an ocean away, it's just not reasonable to bitch.

webster1990 @ Mar 2nd 2008 6:22PM

god damn it.
living in the UK sucks when it comes to these things

JakubK666 @ Mar 2nd 2008 6:22PM

Yeah but MS never give a shit about UK.

Chris @ Mar 2nd 2008 6:30PM

@Neuromancer

Maybe they just don't want to have to fly someone from the other side of the world = Since when have microsoft been short of pennies

it's just not reasonable to bitch = yes it is, we pay more for games and hardware and get treated 2nd rate.

john paul @ Mar 2nd 2008 7:05PM

Hey guys (bloggers)
i hadn't seen my profile for xbox.com after awhile and noticed that my trial demo games disappeared.
remember they (microsoft) said that the existing demos (before the update) will remain while the demos you played after the update will not be added on your account?

izzy @ Mar 2nd 2008 7:06PM

I just won a copy of Devil May Cry 4 from Joystiq, hope my winning streak is still going...

R0B3RT @ Mar 2nd 2008 7:35PM

Hey look at the prizes level 2nd place gets ripped off 8th is better than 7th just like 5 is bettter than 4th and 3rd.

" * Four Grand Prizes: Four winners will score a four-day/three-night trip for two to New York City to attend the Xbox LIVE Gold Grand Theft Auto IV Launch Party.
* One Hundred First Prizes: Custom Xbox 360 Elite console
* Two Thousand Second Prizes: A Rockstar baseball bat
* Five Thousand Third Prizes: 500 Microsoft Points
* Three Thousand Fourth Prizes: 1000 Microsoft Points
* Two Thousand Fifth Prizes: 1600 Microsoft Points
* Five Thousand Sixth Prizes: One-month Xbox LIVE Gold subscription
* Three Thousand Seventh Prizes: Three-month Xbox LIVE Gold subscription
* Two Thousand Eighth Prizes: One-year Xbox LIVE Gold subscription "

wtf and no i wont punctuate .

Spine @ Mar 2nd 2008 7:37PM

Have you UK guys ever stopped to think about the fact that the UK is constantly suing Microsoft? They get hit with a new anti-trust lawsuit every week. Maybe if you guys weren't such jerks to MS all the time you would stop getting passed by for the good stuff. Including the marketplace. Have some of that with your fish and chips my little broods.

anton @ Mar 2nd 2008 7:41PM

I wouldn't be bitching if I could.... oh I don't know, play rock-band.

But no... not only can they not manage to release it here, but it's region locked so I can't even import it.

ScottyGEE32 @ Mar 2nd 2008 8:00PM

nothing for aus either =(
At least you have a video marketplace.

Destroyer88 @ Mar 2nd 2008 8:22PM

I encourage everybody to enter this. Almost a year ago I was informed about a contest for the Simpsons movie and winning a Simspons Xbox 360 and a trip to LA, next thing you know I'm in LA watching the movie.

You might not think you will win but hey, you never know. And this contest is way bigger then that simpsons contest. :D

mcwattersm @ Mar 2nd 2008 9:20PM

@ Spine.
Yeah, because some money hungry Texans never sued Microsoft because the live service was down for, oh a week?

http://xbox.joystiq.com/2008/01/14/lawsuit-prevents-ms-from-talking-about-lives-status/

http://xbox.joystiq.com/2008/01/16/lawyer-behind-xbox-live-suit-speaks-out/

Fool

Spine @ Mar 2nd 2008 9:28PM

mcwattersm

My point exactly. We wait until Microsoft gives us all the cool stuff before we sue them.

* EU antitrust fines, Microsoft, and bears
* Microsoft awaits word on EU fine
* EU knocks Microsoft with $357 million fine
* EU expects deal with Microsoft in May

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_v._Microsoft

mcwattersm @ Mar 2nd 2008 9:34PM

Not really.

Live went down. People sued. Free XBLA game.

It clearly isn't a matter of who sued who.

V Mehta @ Mar 2nd 2008 10:00PM

Darn, Microsoft never lets its employees participate in these awesome contests : (

They could probably just specifically not allow XBOX division employees...

Anticrawl @ Mar 3rd 2008 12:10AM

Funny that folks from the UK don't even uderstand how their own economy works or how taxes are preapplied to certain goods on the shelf price. Not only that but the UK is constantly in some sort of money grabbing scheme with Microsoft.

Anticrawl @ Mar 3rd 2008 12:11AM

As for Canada, Microsoft is just being American. You guys get healthcare and we get free stupid shit. Honestly I'd quit bitching, insurance companies here are among the most horrible people on the planet.

mcwattersm @ Mar 3rd 2008 12:55AM

Anticrawl, take it from me. Instead of watching Sicko, live in Canada for awhile. Free healthcare isn't all it leads up to be.

Anticrawl @ Mar 3rd 2008 1:34AM

Hrm, I've never watched sicko. I just have an unfortunate family and feel victim to insurance companies, local government and doctors. Malpractice suits never work even when you have documentation and proof that a doctor allowed an intern illegally to operate on you and removed the wrong organs that cannot be replaced and sealing your fate faster than the cancer could have. Then there is the whole "murder with a vehicle while drunk is noones fault but the booze and the defendant walks away with the slap on the wrist while the victim is left paying the bill, suffering from pain and causing cancer to spread into the spine and being out money on a new car because of the fault insurance policies in LA". Then there is you know the whole insurance companies not wanting to give anything back to you when you do get sick after investing millions of your dollars throughout your lifespan. Then there is medicare and medicaid not offering any true assistance. Then there is the US Tresurey not wanting to pay Social Security after all else fails and falling months behind scheduled payments.

Oh and don't get me fucking started on the nuclear testing that went on when I and my family before me grew up on the reservation, not letting us know and contaminating our crops leading to a new form of thyroid cancer that will drop a person months within the initial development. Then there is them covering it up and the rest of the country idly going on about there business. As a minority and a human being I have been stepped on more than your average person by every institution. Forgive me for feeling another country might be a little nicer to us. Whats worse here is when people get to abuse the system with their BS minority status or seperate to get extra funding and healthcare from our government when they can't give it to people who need and deserve it.

I'll be back later, I'm gonna go break stuff because I'm trembling with rage over your ignorance of the world.

Jonah Falcon @ Mar 3rd 2008 2:01AM

I already live in New York :p

jacobmarsh @ Mar 3rd 2008 5:47AM

sweet, i can't join the contest either. im in the miliatary in japan and my apo address always gets left out. who cares about flying to new york, why can't i win another prize and have it mailed to me?

SadisticHam @ Mar 3rd 2008 7:59AM

I see we have some ignorant Americans out for a wander today.

"Have you UK guys ever stopped to think about the fact that the UK is constantly suing Microsoft? They get hit with a new anti-trust lawsuit every week. Maybe if you guys weren't such jerks to MS all the time you would stop getting passed by for the good stuff. Including the marketplace. Have some of that with your fish and chips my little broods."

1) The UK stands for United Kingdom Not Europe. Europe is a collection of countries you dolt, any decision the European Union makes is from all those countries not one - and if you think Microsoft is holding a grudge over that you're an idiot.

Perhaps if Microsoft wasn't so obsessed with America and nothing else they'd not be coming last in Europe, we don't like being ignored and whichever one treats us best often gets our money. Have some of that with your big mac my little chubby Misinformed cretin.

@ Anticrawl if you think the prices we're getting is due to taxes you don't know half as much about our economy as you like to think, still, at least you appear to have half a brain. Pity you had to blurt out how we're sueing MS, again, Europe is.

The UK is the last country in Europe where the 360 is actually selling well, they have a choice they can stop shitting on us or they can lose us. I don't need to be business savvy to know that, it's common sense.

mcwattersm @ Mar 3rd 2008 8:58AM

Anticrawl; all I was saying is Canada's health care system isn't all that it leads up to be.

For one, immigrants move here and use the emergency room for their family doctor because they cannot afford a doctor. This leads the horribly long waits in the ER. About two years ago, I got hit by a car. There was a possibility of my neck being broken, and I waited one a stretcher, in the ER, for 3 whole hours. I could not get up because of the chance my neck was broken. What we don't pay comes out of taxes in the long run.

Kryptinite @ Mar 3rd 2008 9:01AM

So can you even win the game?

rell.mc @ Mar 3rd 2008 9:02AM

I want to finally win something.

Enzemo @ Mar 3rd 2008 10:16AM

Grr. We all pay the same amount for out subscription. So why aren't we all entitled to the same things?
Gay Microsoft.

chenry @ Mar 3rd 2008 10:19AM

No love for the rest of the world, apparently. Bastards.

What do you expect from the people who call it The World Series but don't invite anyone else.

Ciaran Gallagher @ Mar 3rd 2008 11:46AM

Thanks for informing about this US-only sweepstake!

Ian Murray @ Mar 3rd 2008 11:48AM

@hael:

Yeah, it does it for me too.

I highlighted all of the page elements, and it seems as though they entered my email for me in the form field...but in WHITE.

So don't worry, if you can't see your email in that final box, but you entered it on a previous page, they carry it over into that one.