Joyswag: Free 1-year subscription to EGM magazine

by Christopher Grant { Jan 23rd 2008 at 12:15PM }

[Update: All gone, folks. Enjoy!]

Surely you leave the house and/or office? And perhaps if your phone doesn't support our lovely, lightweight mobile page, you find yourself reaching for the comfortable contours of a print magazine. Something familiar. Something that reminds you of the days when you had little more to worry about than remembering to grab your lunchbox out of the fridge before catching the bus. Something like ... EGM, which has always been there for you.

To make sure you're comforted in those dark times, we've buddied up with the good folks at Ziff once again to give away ~~22,000~~ 45,000 (we went ahead and added some more for y'all) free 1-year subscriptions (US readers only, alas!) to their flagship gaming mag. How free? You won't need to provide your credit card information; your subscription won't be automatically renewed at the end of the year; and you'll need to "opt-in" to renew your subscription before receiving any bill for the magazine. Free. Our way of saying thanks for spending your computer time with us.

Tags: EGM, Ziff-Davis

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)

Huey2k2 @ Jan 23rd 2008 12:23PM

:(

I think my avatar says it all.

Persepolian @ Jan 23rd 2008 1:00PM

It's not fair. Damn America-only swag. What about your brothers up North? Do you care nothing for us?

Christopher Grant @ Jan 23rd 2008 1:07PM

Oh, we do! Regrettably, we're not responsible for establishing international laws (yet!). Our giveaways are gimped because of strange Canadian laws requiring us to administer math tests (really!) and Ziff is limiting this giveaway to US residents. If we had our way, we'd send each and every Canadian reader a gift card to Tim Horton's.

Ignatius @ Jan 23rd 2008 1:09PM

Administer math tests? O.o

...what?

Anticrawl @ Jan 23rd 2008 1:17PM

Well in all honesty I'd rather have a healthcare system than a little extra gaming content. This is exceptionally true when you have sick a family member and insurance companies won't pay their part unless you threaten to send them a bomb in the mail and eventually breach the contract by ending your coverage all together. But since our state is partially run by the insurance company (See: Louisiana vice governor campaign) it is impossible take legal action against them or expect to be treated like a human being. Not only that but medication is comercialized here, which jacks prices sky high because companies are allowed to advertise their perscription drugs and compete with one another/fix prices.

Yep one thing unregulated/poorly regulated capitalism is not good for is all things medical.

So yeah wanna trade my free EGM subscription for free health care or a months worth of medication?

Slaziman @ Jan 23rd 2008 1:46PM

If Canadians aren't getting anything then I guess Europeans can forget about it completely.

Surely you can ship some Joystiq shirts to the Europeans or something? We never get any swag :(

Jim Halpert DM @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:09PM

I'm American. I'm tired of hearing Americans beg for Canadian health. According to the Canadians I know there health care is crap(browse the internet for the stories of extremely long waits for organs) and they have to pay a shit load in taxes, almost 50%. With that money you could pay for healthcare and still have stuff left over. Anyway, thanks Joystiq. I'd rather have you prize than the Canadian healthcare system.

Huey2k2 @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:11PM

The only people who think that Canadian health care is better than the American system are poor people.

n0v4 @ Jan 23rd 2008 4:39PM

@ Huey2k2: Man, the doctors we produce are the best. As soon (and sometimes sooner) they get out of university they get harrassed by private United-States (See I didn't say American, guess why?) companies to go work for them.

@ Jim Halpert DM: We made a choice that Education and health is a Right, not something you need to ask for, to work for, and obviously to beg for to assurance corporation.

Mr Khan @ Jan 23rd 2008 4:58PM

nov4 is right, its a matter of morals, not one of numbers. Healthcare and education are basic human rights. If you want to go with what's more efficient, rich communities might as well start paying for private police...

Markusdragon @ Jan 23rd 2008 8:09PM

@ Huey2k2
"The only people who think that Canadian health care is better than the American system are poor people."

So the majority, then?

SirGecko @ Jan 23rd 2008 9:30PM

Health care isn't a right any more than finding food is a right or free cable tv is a right. Health care is a commodity and it is something that should be earned. Naturally there are going to be extreme situations in which a government should step in to help but these are *extreme* situations. Rights are the things that Government shouldn't take away, commodities are not rights.

Also anyone that thinks universal socialized health care will increase their access is a little loony. Maybe the poorest of the poor would be able to get some primary care that they otherwise wouldn't come in for but they already use emergency departments for this anyway. (the tab for which the government picks up) Otherwise for any expensive interventions the wait lists can be huge.

One final note for all those pining for socialized health care: for better or worse the US health care system does what you want. If you want to have every procedure possible to give you a couple of more months in the realm of the living, you can do that. In a socialized scheme everything would be up for government approval. Low survivability procedure with a huge cost and not much time gained? No go for a socialized scheme.

Anyway, on topic I'd like to say thanks Joystiq. I knew there was a reason I check this site.

timnc @ Jan 23rd 2008 10:51PM

@SirGecko I [+] you sir.

ThornedVenom @ Jan 24th 2008 2:44AM

Back to the subject of unserviced Canadians: it's not fair since Canada is the 51st state of the US. ;P

/joke

Boffo @ Jan 24th 2008 3:53AM

Heh, there's no 50% income tax for individuals in Canada. It's in line with the American Income Tax. http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tax/individuals/faq/taxrates-e.html

Jim. @ Jan 23rd 2008 12:24PM

It don't work.

Adam R. @ Jan 23rd 2008 12:27PM

Hit the read link:
https://www.zdmcirc.com/forms/secure/EGM_Joystiq_Partn.html

Quikster @ Jan 23rd 2008 12:31PM

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.zdmcirc.com.

Christopher Grant @ Jan 23rd 2008 12:31PM

It may be getting hit right now -- it loads just fine for me.

WookieePants @ Jan 23rd 2008 12:35PM

no problems here. sub went right through.

Raikage (Wii FC 5508 0487 4434 0992) @ Jan 23rd 2008 4:29PM

Suckas should be using Safari! AMIRITE Mr. Grant? HUH HUH?

Raikage (Wii FC 5508 0487 4434 0992) @ Jan 23rd 2008 4:41PM

BTW Mr. Grant, I FINALLY got boot camp to work (had to get leopard) and now i have Vista on it (puke) so I can play the games I miss because I don't have a 360.

I have Bioshock, Half Life 2, EP. 1, UT2004, and Oblivion. That will keep me busy for a while, Oblivion consumes my soul...

nxtiak @ Jan 23rd 2008 12:24PM

uh the link only links to the .gif file with the offer!

Adam R. @ Jan 23rd 2008 12:24PM

You guys rock! I signed up last time this came around, I think my subscription is still good for awhile yet.

To the skeptics: this is not a scam. There is no extra junk mail or collect international phone calls from Nigerian princes. I signed up and have been getting the magazine with no ill effects.

Jack @ Jan 23rd 2008 12:29PM

Yeah I got my magazines last time too! They did take a bit of time to start coming in though. But it was free and I am happy. : )

nxtiak @ Jan 23rd 2008 12:25PM

Ok, gotta click READ on the bottom for the real url.

StarSpangeldDill-Ho @ Jan 23rd 2008 12:25PM

Nice I have a ton of old EGM in the attic. It will be nice to read some when pooping.

Grant @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:35PM

same here,
i think i have a collection all the way back to issue seventy something.

EGM is fairly unbiased good stuff.
Thanks Joystiq!

StarSpangeldDill-Ho @ Jan 23rd 2008 4:05PM

Oh yeah I have that one. I have Sonic on the cover. Super Mario World. I know I have some 8-bit covers. The Atari Jaguar issue. I like to look back at them to see how far games have come. I remember how excited i would get looking at the coming soon section.