Even if every single person who ever bought the Stimulus Package already has a Gold membership, now you have it for a week longer! And for nothing but a minor inconvenience.
Modern Warfare 2 'Stimulus Package' early adopters rewarded with free week of XBL Gold
by JC Fletcher 
on Apr 5th 2010 6:40PM
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Even if every single person who ever bought the Stimulus Package already has a Gold membership, now you have it for a week longer! And for nothing but a minor inconvenience.
Reader Comments (77)
Posted: Apr 5th 2010 6:43PM Acosta02 said
No running by the pool, guys!
Posted: Apr 5th 2010 6:43PM Dr Blight said
That's like...13 cents?
Posted: Apr 5th 2010 7:24PM sonicspike41 said
http://www.google.com/search?q=%2840%2F12%29%2F4%3D
So around $0.83.
Not quite the $15 people were complaining about, but better than nothing I guess.
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So around $0.83.
Not quite the $15 people were complaining about, but better than nothing I guess.
Posted: Apr 5th 2010 6:47PM bigdonny said
Thank you for the $0.92 Microsoft!!
Posted: Apr 5th 2010 7:07PM tenacioustoaster said
What's with this dumb sense of entitlement? You were given something for free, just take it and don't complain.
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Posted: Apr 5th 2010 7:39PM RageOverdose said
What's with this sense of white knightedness? Everyone just states opinions.
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Posted: Apr 5th 2010 6:48PM Jason B said
Did he really call it a "reward"?
Posted: Apr 5th 2010 6:50PM Spike Spiegel Humble Bounty Hun said
I kept seeing that ad on the dashboard for getting a reward. And this is what they give? One of the most profitable developers and games, and all they can do is a week of gold? I know this is more of an MS deal but c'mon. A week? I'm baffled by what people call "rewards" these days.
Posted: Apr 5th 2010 6:53PM Spike Spiegel Humble Bounty Hun said
NVG?
Off-Topic: Joystiq you have marquee flash ads. Please get rid of them.
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Off-Topic: Joystiq you have marquee flash ads. Please get rid of them.
Posted: Apr 5th 2010 7:00PM Spike Spiegel Humble Bounty Hun said
I have Adblock at home, but I can't install it at work :(
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Posted: Apr 5th 2010 7:20PM Spike Spiegel Humble Bounty Hun said
Oh. Wouldn't go so well with my Psicom outfit.
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Posted: Apr 5th 2010 7:50PM s ls said
you know ad block only hurts Joystiq and all of your favorite sites? if these ads arent being seen your favorite sites cant make enough money to stay online.
Ads don't hurt and they arent intrusive so just live with them. Joystiq is a great site and free to read, not to mention they love giving back to us so dealing with a ad shouldnt be to much to ask of us.
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Ads don't hurt and they arent intrusive so just live with them. Joystiq is a great site and free to read, not to mention they love giving back to us so dealing with a ad shouldnt be to much to ask of us.
Posted: Apr 5th 2010 8:10PM cloud858rk said
Ads do hurt, malicious ones can try to feed you a trojan, or more commonly, just be annoying, distracting, and slow down your computer.
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Posted: Apr 5th 2010 10:47PM s ls said
no shit, but if you want to go to a site with ads like that then that's at your own risk. i'm talking about legitimate websites losing money because of ad blocker. Read this
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/03/why-ad-blocking-is-devastating-to-the-sites-you-love.ars?utm_campaign=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss
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http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/03/why-ad-blocking-is-devastating-to-the-sites-you-love.ars?utm_campaign=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss
Posted: Apr 6th 2010 1:44AM maveric101 said
yes ads are annoying, but i read this article on arstechnica about how adblockers hurt a website. basically, most ads work by views, not clicks, so Adblock+ causes them not to get any views from you. but at the same time, you're using their bandwidth, so you're kind of a drain on the website. personally i only disable Adblock+ for websites i really love - the only two right now are Arstechnica.com and Joystiq.com.
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Posted: Apr 6th 2010 1:46AM maveric101 said
why you guys hating on Solace so much? seriously, read the article.
just leave Adblock on be default, and only disable it for sites you really love and trust. like i said, for me that's just Joystiq and Arstechnica. not a big deal.
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just leave Adblock on be default, and only disable it for sites you really love and trust. like i said, for me that's just Joystiq and Arstechnica. not a big deal.
Posted: Apr 6th 2010 11:08AM Spike Spiegel Humble Bounty Hun said
Well, Ads are fine. I have never minded banner ads and such. But when you start getting into insanely annoying flash ads and marquee flash ads which COVER the articles that are being written by the website hosting them, it gets old.
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Posted: Apr 5th 2010 6:53PM LunarAura said
We're so thankful, we can hardly contain our excitement.
Posted: Apr 5th 2010 7:35PM OzCueball said
Neither can this guy:
http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/04/05/activision-s-too-hot-for-tv-modern-warfare-2-ad.aspx
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http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/04/05/activision-s-too-hot-for-tv-modern-warfare-2-ad.aspx
Posted: Apr 6th 2010 7:10PM (Unverified) said
Neither can this girl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPg_j2M3B_Y
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPg_j2M3B_Y
Posted: Apr 5th 2010 6:59PM (Unverified) said
SO LAME. How about giving the people the 400 MS points they got raped out of. Will there be a 400 point IW tax on every map pack for future IW games?
Posted: Apr 5th 2010 7:09PM SirUrza said
This is likely the last infinity ward game. Call of Duty 2011 is going to Visceral. Don't expect many of the IW guys to stick around after Activision pays them the money they owe, they'll bail out and form a new developer, just like they did when they had trouble with EA over Medal of Honor.
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Posted: Apr 5th 2010 7:02PM (Unverified) said
You people are complaining about something that you are getting for free?
Posted: Apr 5th 2010 7:14PM Death Threat said
Because for less than 4x the price, we'd get 52x the worth.
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Posted: Apr 5th 2010 7:04PM SmilinGoat said
So when does Double XP weekend end? i figured it would be done today, but its still going...
Posted: Apr 5th 2010 7:57PM SmilinGoat said
Same here! im not nearly as hard core as some of these people, i play for maybe 1 hour at a time, tops.
im only like lvl 30.
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im only like lvl 30.
Posted: Apr 5th 2010 7:07PM horngreen said
Just shows the maps are weak and overpriced.
Posted: Apr 5th 2010 7:06PM OzCueball said
"And for nothing but a minor inconvenience."
I would consider the inability of the matchmaking to find any games at all to be a major inconevience.
On topic: I don't think anyone was expecting Microsoft (if anyone) to reimburse the buyers, but a weeks worth of Xbox LIVE probably costs them nothing. So i'd agree that this is pretty flimsy. Honsetly they should have just left it alone and not offered anything cause now their comming off as being cheap.
I would consider the inability of the matchmaking to find any games at all to be a major inconevience.
On topic: I don't think anyone was expecting Microsoft (if anyone) to reimburse the buyers, but a weeks worth of Xbox LIVE probably costs them nothing. So i'd agree that this is pretty flimsy. Honsetly they should have just left it alone and not offered anything cause now their comming off as being cheap.
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