Gearbox gifts Borderlands 2 to its PAX panel attendees, you want ours?

by Justin McElroy on Aug 28th 2011 9:05PM

In an undeniably generous gesture, Gearbox gave a voucher good for a free copy of Borderlands 2 to all of the more than a thousand attendees of its PAX Prime 2011 panel. Yes, you read that right. Free. For everybody.

If you weren't among the lucky hanging out in the Pegasus room, we're continuing the Oprah spirit by passing on our code to you. Yep, that's ours up there. Go ahead. Take it. Oh, and let us know in the comments that you got it. (Update: Looks like it's been used!)

Tags: borderlands-2, gearbox, microsoft, pax-prime-2011, pc, playstation, ps3, xbox

Reader Comments (64)

Bah, it's already been used.

@deedqwqw Nice song.

It's already been gotten :(

Got it :D!! Thanks so much joystiq!!

@chaosbelow247 You lucky sonova.....

@chaosbelow247 Congrats u lucky sumbitch

@chaosbelow247

Congrats man! So jelly right now.

Thanks, Joystiq! Excited for this!

Don't bother trying people. Someone apparently took it without the decency of saying they did...

@DevilSei

Oh come on, there's a comment saying that they claimed it just a few entries above yours.

Don't be so butthurt about it.

@Heffer Wolfe
Honestly when I posted that there was zero comments listed at the time. Otherwise I wouldn't of said that.

@DevilSei

Still, there's no reason to complain about missing out on something you would've had to do nothing for anyway.

@Heffer Wolfe

I'm not complaining about not getting it, so I have zero clue where you got that idea.
I was just saying don't bother clicking the link, because the time it took for me to fill that form out twice (first time never registered), see that it was already used, check my inbox to double-check, then come back to this topic, no one had posted.

@DevilSei umad?

@DevilSei

I don't get the hate on this post. Joystiq has a bug where it sometimes takes comments a while to appear and a "hit and run" would've been tremendously douchey.

You can argue that kind of behavior "doesn't matter". Hell, I'm sure we can all break out the existential literature we read in high school and feel superior in our apathy over this kind of thing. However, I'm sure a fair amount of us are simply glad a complete asshole didn't win.

@chinedooo u need a dictionary?

@kyte420 or a thesaurus

@kyte420 The thesaurus is the most studious of the dinosaurs.

i dont got it so let me get it

Nope.

used up

too slow :(

used

:(
no go here GL whoever got it

I wasn't even gonna try anyways:P I had a better chance of getting struck by lighting twice in the same day.

Pretty dick move, Joystiq. A random raffle like usual would have been a better idea, I think :\

@ailurus74 Yeah, giving out a free code is such a dick move. They should have just given you to the code to hand out, since you're so much better at giving out free stuff.

@ailurus74

I think it was pretty nice of them, considering they didn't have to give it away in the first place. They're just decent enough not to keep the stuff they're given for free.

Complaining that you didn't get free stuff just reeks of entitlement.

@ailurus74

Yeah, definitely a dick move of them to switch it up a little and add a little variety to the disbursement of items they never do.

You are a self-entitled infant and need a good dose of reality.

@Heffer Wolfe

"I think it was pretty nice of them, considering they didn't have to give it away in the first place. They're just decent enough not to keep the stuff they're given for free."

Actually no, they aren't allowed to keep it. Anything they get for free from Joystiq related events they can't keep. Which is why they usually give away all the free swag publishers send them. Their only option was to give this away or trash it.

@Punkrawk Bbob

Yeah, but isn't that a self-implemented policy? My point was that they wouldn't have to give it away if they didn't want to, but their own policy requires that they do.

As far as I know, there wouldn't be any legal problems with the Joystiq staffers (or the company as a whole) keeping the stuff they get from publishers for free, but I'm definitely no law student, so I admit that me being wrong is pretty likely in this instance.

@ailurus74 I this was is more fun actually.

@Heffer Wolfe

Well I know with pretty much every other media outlet (newspaper, television, retail, or radio) if you receive items on the clock that you're not allowed to keep them. They're considered like a bribe of sorts so it's usually company policy (So AOL in this case) not to allow you to keep, and definitely grounds for firing if you sell it (even if you hang onto it for three years then turn it in used to a GameStop). I could be wrong in this one rare case, but highly unlikely with a company like AOL passing out the paychecks.

Curses! Foiled again.

*sigh*...

That is a lot of free copies they gave away >

Ive never fest so teased by something in all my life.

@SgtDookie In fact i was so heartbroken i couldn't even spell "felt" right.

Obviously, I didn't grab the code in time, but I have to say, this was a pretty cool thing for Gearbox to do (you're cool too, Joystiq).

I loves me some Gearbox. Except for that whole Duke Nukem Forever thing, of course, but I'm just blaming that on 3D Realms for the most part.

That's ok... I loved Borderlands and will happily pay for Borderlands 2. Great guesture towards the biomass though.

Oh, so close. Then again, it's probably a good thing, since if I got the game I'd probably not go to school for the rest of the year and some of the next.

That's a class act all the way on Gearbox's part for giving away all those copies...and kudos to Joystiq for sharing the wealth.

One of my colleagues just sent me a code and I redeemed it too. Wish I could have gone but bigger fish to fry.

Shame I didn't check this immediately when I got home. That will learn me. Oh well though. I bought the first Borderlands and every DLC, so I have no problem giving them more money for quality product. It just goes to show how awesome Gearbox is.

You're wrong.

They could keep them (codes, games) but choose n

Is this a pre-order code or what?

WORKED! To bad I didn't even like the first one :(

My most wanted game right now. Y'all would be my heroes!

@DevilSei
Remember, this is Joystiq's comment system. Comments usually take several minutes to actually display (at least, with new blogposts).

@BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam
And here's your comment proving just how functional Joystiq's system is :-/

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