Discovery Channel giving away 2mil MS points [update 1]

by Kevin Kelly { Jan 8th 2007 at 1:51AM }

Two million points is quite a haul, and would just about allow you to pay for the horse armor in Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. We keed, we keed! Seriously though, that's a lotta points just waiting to find their way home underneath your gamertag.

In conjunction with the new content they are sponsoring for Gears of War, the Discovery Channel is giving away the points through ~~www.readyaimfire.com~~ www.readyaimfuture.com/, ~~and the site will only be up on January 13th and 14th, so you'd better be quick on your browser and sign in to find out how to qualify for the points.~~ You can head here and read all about the contest.

While the Discovery Channel isn't the first company to give away points on Xbox Live, they are the first network/cable channel to do so. It's probably no coincidence that they're airing their Gamer Generation series while this contest is going on. Gamers, you all are a demographic that everyone wants a slice of, so brace yourselves.

[Thanks to Concaf for the proper url]

Tags: Discovery Channel, Elder Scrolls, ElderScrolls, Epic, Gears of War, GoW, marketplace, Oblivion, Xbox, Xbox Live

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Rami @ Jan 8th 2007 2:58AM

This sure beats having to decide how to spend my 1600 ms points. But I think I'll probably need a few of the current hard drives to fit in all the stuff I would download.

ch0rx @ Jan 8th 2007 4:36AM

$25,000 in MS points, wow.
Who wants to bet that we see a Live account on ebay with 2,000,000 microsoft points attached.

Ic0n7 @ Jan 9th 2007 9:13PM

will one person get them all or will they be a load of smaller prizes?

concaf @ Jan 8th 2007 3:48PM

are you sure its not readyaimfuture.com, the site for their show, futureweapons?

JamesE @ Jan 8th 2007 5:25PM

Um.. guys a little common sense suggests that they are going to distribute the $25,000 of MS points amongst thousands of gamers, not give it all to one person.

Frelghra @ Jan 9th 2007 11:34AM

Two things. First, yes it's readyaimfuture.com, not readyaimfire.

Second, it's not one 2 million point prize, it's 5,000 400 point prizes spread out over the contest period. As stated in the legalese:

PRIZE
1 Token code for 400 Microsoft Points

RETAIL VALUE
$5.00

NUMBER OF PRIZES
5,000