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

DAMNIT. Canadians can't enter.

Program not available

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

Nor can UK, boo.

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

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

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

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

What ever.

USA!!! USA!!!

Sorry guys. =o

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

Oh do I want the Rockstar Baseball Bat. :P

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?

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.

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

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.

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

Yeah but MS never give a shit about UK.

@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.

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?

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

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.

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 .

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.

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

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

@ 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

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

Not really.

Live went down. People sued. Free XBLA game.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I already live in New York :p

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?

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.

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.

So can you even win the game?

I want to finally win something.

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.

Thanks for informing about this US-only sweepstake!

@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.

PAGE NOT FOUND!!!

Hope I win something from this contest. Last contest I won was that Mass Effect one from Sci-Fi channel and got the limited edition copy of Mass Effect

Page not found indeed. Microsoft seems to have pulled the site.

I'm getting a page not found as well

Is the link dead for some reason?

I'll settle for a first prize

The GTA4 sweepstakes link to Xbox is dead. Page is gone.