Advent Rising cancels million-dollar contest

This is the kinda crap that ruins online gaming for all parties involved. Hacker think they are so smart. It's part of the reason I dislike the Halo 2 market, and it spreads to even less intelligent things than this.

Gunbound is notorious for hackers that love o use aim bots and such. Frankly, the game is modeled after worms. Part of the fun is guessing the angle and power to hit the opponent so the skill comes from being goos at guessing the wind, the angle and the power to make it hit more than miss.

It sucks the fun out of games in general when people remove human error out of things in an effort to say they "have an undefeated" record...sad

Take Phantom Dust - great online game and highly underrated.

Hmm...this sounds like a great time to get 3 games for the price of one...

Hackers eh? I sense this was more about the game being of poor quality, selling poorly, and Majesco having absolutely no way of justifying paying out that million dollars, so queue 'hax0rz threat' to bow out gracefully. Before anyone counters with the fact they are giving out free games, keep in mind that A) its their games, so its less expensive to do this B) requires that the consumer make the effort to request their free games. No different than the common 'rebate scam'. It requires just enough hoops to jump through to introduce the possibility of the consumer forgetting or just not bothering altogether. Yes, MUCH cheaper than a million bucks, especially if they're considering their sales figures on Advent and are secure this is the cheaper way to go.

Perhaps I enjoy my conspriracies too much, but lets not forget the money troubles Majesco is having, what with lowering their projected revenues by 50 times that million cash prize, and their stocks plummeting 50%, all barely a month ago.

Oh well, something to consider...I don't fault them on any level and like Majesco from what I do know, absolutely adoring Psychonauts (so good call Majesco!), but to bank on Advent like that with such a bombastic contest, dunno guys... :D

EvoG.. I'm with you.. the whole thing stunk from day one. And I'm not just talking about the game, but the contest. How could Majesco not have realized that people were going to try to cheat online? Like it's never happened before? It's just away for them to bow out of paying the million dollars, and I wonder if a class action suit is possilbe.

I saw a special on this on SpikeTV and I could not beleive the resouces they were pouring into the marketing. The show was all about pimping the contest and making it seem legitimate by picking a guy and tricking out his "game-room" and taking him on this really, really stupid series of "interactive plot moments" or whatever. The game looked like a lame ass version of Halo mixed with more colorful sci-fi visuals. It appeared to me that they were focused way more on the marketing angles of the title then the actual quality of the product.

Not an X-box fan, but I wish the PS would do something similar.

I am kind of jealous -- only one person was going to get a mil... but now everyone gets two free games.

Good call on the Pscyhonauts/GG take.