If you recall, earlier this year Old Spice and Xbox.com sponsored a challenge where they gave out prizes to participants who achieved a certain Gamerscore goal. But now, with the ushering in of this second Old Spice Experience Challenge, they've decided to kick Xbox.com to the curb and team up with 360voice. The new challenge will start on December 5th, will be hosted by the 360voice crew and will allow gamers to create challenges, climb the ranks and win thousands of prizes including gift cards, Microsoft points, hardware and more. Details are a bit vague at the moment, but you can read all about it here, here or here. And remember kids, Old Spice loves you!
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11-30-2007 @ 3:37PM
ChangeAgent said...
Sorry if everyone feels it is "vague and gay"... it is an integrated feature of our community... And think about it... you get to create your own challenge with your own friends and compete against each other to win prizes... it isn't some random race for 2000 points for a T-shirt... It is what you make it.
Explore a little more, I think you will find it can be pretty fun.
Fatty Chubs and I (ChangeAgent) are really just trying to make something that will be fun for the community (Gamerscore challenges). The prizes are just icing on the cake...
Through the beta almost 500 people have participated in challenges racking up almost 500k in gamerscore in just a few weeks. It adds another dimension to your game play...
This is a long term thing... it will be a part of 360voice whether old spice is sponsoring it or not. So I urge you to give it another look. Cheers all.
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11-30-2007 @ 3:04PM
Paul said...
thank you ChangeAgent for this opportunity to do this. i registered on 360voice.com and plan on participating in this challenge. some of the people on here are just pricks and can't ever say anything nice. i appreciate what you are doing, as it is just another reason why the 360 is the best gaming console out in every aspect. if people don't want to do this they don't have to. all i can say is keep doing things like this and people will participate.....
11-30-2007 @ 3:48PM
xenocidic said...
don't get me wrong AgentChange, I originally thought it was vague, but definitely not gay.
i just wish the prizes were available to us sacks north o' the border.
since Canadians are known to have more body hair, I don't see why old spice would want to leave us out.=]
11-30-2007 @ 4:01PM
ChangeAgent said...
Yeah we knew from the start that rewards wouldn't be available to non-US folks. That is just how these things work.
For any contest, prizes have to be fulfilled locally. It wouldn't make sense to get a gift certificate to a store that isn't in your country right? So just adding ONE country greatly complicates the prizing. And with the smaller markets it doesn't make sense for companies to fund fulfillment agencies and separate prizes in every country where there are xbox gamers... so for simplicity they do the largest market which is the US.
So it isn't that no one wants to include international audiences... they simply can't afford to put the infrastructure in place to support all that. Believe me... if they could they would. No one likes excluding people... but it just comes down to what is realistic.
I hope that clears up a little bit for people why international markets are often excluded from this stuff. But that doesn't mean international gamers can't compete for bragging rights! Once you win a challenge you will always have the challenge graph of your conquest to link back to!
11-30-2007 @ 3:45PM
Kicks said...
While the old system wasn't that great, it really made the milestones more attainable to reach. When I knew that I had to only get so much gamerscore it a certain timeframe. I am enjoying the present challenge that I'm part of, but the number 1 person is smoking everyone by a couple thousand gamerscore
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11-30-2007 @ 3:47PM
Kicks said...
I really should have refreshed and read ChangeAgent's post before making this comment. Thank you for the great explanation. I was not even thinking that it can be a private contest among friends :)
11-30-2007 @ 4:00PM
andyg8180 said...
WOOOOO!!! I cant wait to start winning some prizes... I did a couple challenges (and i lost cuz i suck lol), it took me one try to understand it... But once you get into it, its actually a lot of fun... Esp once people start the Smack talking...
Don't worry Change, some people are real tools on these public blogs... Everyone should defintily come check it out and give it a whirl... Not to mention its free schwag!!
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12-01-2007 @ 2:48AM
UNSCleric said...
Actually, you won't see me registering or participating. I don't have enough time anymore to participate in stuff like this and actually win, and since my GamerScore is 43,000, I can't really just go out and boost my score with easy games I have beaten over a year ago.
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12-01-2007 @ 6:08AM
fatty chubs said...
Well UNSCleric you can create challenges and invite friends with similar play habits, that's what it's all about. If you want to do anything goes challenge where you can play CSI and Avatar, then do that. If not get friends together that have either played those already or will chose not to. It's just one out of the many features on the site you can use to create a friendly challenge with your friends.
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