Free xbox 360 or zune? The hell you say!

[Tyr]

I think it's between 9525 and 9550, I've gotten both as caps.


Anyway, I think MS will send out the stuff they've already confirmed, before this craze really got out of hand -- maybe they'd honor it simply because I'm sure a ton of people would complain--I know I would (to see what would happen)

[Exoduso]

Gotta love people who are going to COMPLAIN to M$ about not sending them a FREE GIFT that they CHEATED TO WIN.

Right, rock on guys... rock on.

[Charla]

Well they could say they're complaining on behalf of the one guy that actually didn't cheat. Even though he only has like 1500 points anyway.

And anyway, I still blame the 20 laptop kid.

[izembo]

i had a few k points legitly that were wiped, was actually playing flexicon, but cant even get enough points now with it to get anything.

[CaptainObvious]

/rant on

I can't even read other forums anymore about this because it's become so fucking pathetic. They are all nothing but 15 year olds acting like a bunch of immature assholes thinking the world owes them everything. They got a number for Incentive Logic and have been calling them non-stop to find order status when the number is for IL's clients, not a bunch of 15 year olds trying to find their order status. I saw they are calling FedEx now to see if there are packages en route to their address.

This whole thing is getting out of hand with the impatience, assholes ordering 20 of everything, etc. It clearly stated 6-8 weeks to ship and now every asshole in the world is expecting their things to come in a week and they're getting pissed if if their stuff isn't coming that fast so they're spamming phone numbers. I bet that is going to help.

/rant off

[Exoduso]

Can't really expect anything else from 15 year old HS faggots who think they can get laid by giving some girl a zune.

I just hope M$ shuts this thing done (after sending everything that is currently in process) and be done with it.. or at least shut it off until they can find a way to eliminate bots, because it did get kind of pathetic.

[GraveRobberX]

Well its was a good thing while it lasted =/

Always going to have a-holes who will always go out of their way and fuck it up for the rest of the population

Some of those games are really fun, and I tried them out, they were very entertaining, but as is anything, it got boring quickly

I hope to god this doesnt get Digg'd and becomes main stream, already have to deal with pros who are making this into a business, cant imagine when all the myspace/facbook tards learn this and think they are
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[CaptainObvious]

Can't really expect anything else from 15 year old HS faggots who think they can get laid by giving some girl a zune.

I just hope M$ shuts this thing done (after sending everything that is currently in process) and be done with it.. or at least shut it off until they can find a way to eliminate bots, because it did get kind of pathetic.

They should just look at IP addresses and see how many accounts were associated with it and how many prizes were ordered. Then they should only send 1 of what they ordered (if any at all) to the address of the first account created and delete all the other orders and accounts.

[Exoduso]

That would be the ideal solution, but I doubt they'll do it since so many people are doing it.

[Einherjar]

I've tried playing different games and it won't give me any points, anybody know what's up with that?

[Epincus]

Okay, what the fuck? Everyone else is running around with 15 livemacro omgimsoleet accounts and get 4000 bucks worth of shit, and they wipe the points on an account which actually did all the searches and that I spent a ton of time on manually doing the puzzles?

I'd assume that since it's the one which ordered vista I won't be obtaining my order. I'd half assume they mass wiped those accounts on account of everyone ordering vista so they wouldn't need to send it out, because my other account with no orders on it hasn't been touched.

Edit: Not pissed as much about not getting vista so much as all the fucking greedy shits ruining it for everyone else.

[Exoduso]

I'm sure that if you ordered vista you'll at least get one... they'll prob only send 1 per address though.

[Natallon]

odd how they would limit it to one per household because when you go to order a prize it allows you the option to order up to 5 at a time...

whatever..

and also yes it says they are not for resale.. but how would they actually track that?

[Epincus]

I'm sure that if you ordered vista you'll at least get one... they'll prob only send 1 per address though.

Was the only thing I ordered from any account, so we'll see.

[Exoduso]

Just trying to scare stupid kids from ordering 30.

And yea I guess you're right... in that case, they'll probably limit it to 5 per household.

[gt_killa]

Today I ordered from dell 3 budget laptops
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/ ... WHA1&s=dhs

I will set them up in my LAN for a total of 6 computers(already had 3 PC's at home). Each day while I am at work/school, I will set each computer to a different game on the same account, so basically I will max out on each game in a couple of hours(I have live 07 bot)

Basically I have invested 1500$ plus shipping, however, I will stock up on as many vistas and zune as I can to try and make a profit

I am a fairly well off Upper middle class person,(XD my parents bought the lap tops after they saw how much I "won" like the tickets and flashdrives), so I wont lose anything if this doesnt workout.

However, I hope that within a week or so of doing this, I will have "earned" eneough vistas/zunes/anything else, to turn a profit.

I have set up an ebay account, and I will pretty much do this 24 hours a day

I have Live 07 so Catchas or whatever wont phase me

Is this a risk? Yes, I might not make anything, but I needed some more laptops for what buisness I am in anyways

Sure, they probally wont send me 600 vistas, but I will try my best, Wish me luck!

el o el

[Unklemonkey]

Okay everyone, finally some concrete results. I'll try not to post speculation, and label it as speculation if it is so. Myself and others at GameSwitch have been testing bot settings and pushing the limits on Club Live.

Zeroed Accounts
When I say Zeroed accounts, I mean that when you log out and back in, or try to place an order, and your tickets are reduced to zero, this is a zeroed account. It appears that accounts that have been zeroed are unable to gain points without zeroing again.

Firefox
It appears that Firefox will let some people get tickets. These tickets may or may not be zeroed, we did not test on this. One thing is sure, it will not let you sign out if you are using FF.

IP's
We suspect that IP's are checked but are not sure. If in doubt, the best thing to do is to reset your ip (reset your router if your isp provides dynamic IP, or use a proxy on a static IP) and then create a new account.

The IP thing was tested by creating a new account on an IP that had a previously zeroed account. It got zeroed as well. Looking back on it, it's possible that the person on that test was using livemacro at a low delay, I don't think so, but maybe. Still, changing IP's is the safest thing. Also, peope creating new accounts were getting zeroed even with legit play, and I was the first one there who was able to keep my points, after I reset my IP.

LiveMacro
LiveMacro still works in IE7. The thing is the new time thresholds.

Time Thresholds
From our research, it appears that every 500 points or so, M$ checks to see how long it took. If you are gaining at an illegitimate rate, your account will be zeroed. If you bot 10 points, you don't get zeroed, but if you bot 700, you do. There are ways to get around it.

Time checks
It has been known for a while (I forget the thread) that as part of the information the flash sends, it sends time started and time finished. This does give M$ a method to record time spent.

Not sure what this means as far as orders placed before this thing go though, since technically you never agreed to them. Still though, sucks.

[Charla]

Technically the old rules said no cheating too (don't remember the exact phrasing, it's posted somewhere in the thread). And if you ordered more than about 20k tickets worth of stuff they probably assume you botted for it. And they're probably right.

[ertyu]

I got zeroed but all i ordered was a vista and I only had 200 tickets over <_< i really hope I get vista cause i just wanted to use it

[viperlasson]

This is from a pretty respectful member of the face punch forums,

Well, I had a good conversation with Emily over at IL, and she said plainly that they are limiting one Zune/Xbox[though not attainable at present]Windows Vista per address.

Any others will be looked into, have their IP's cross checked, and if found to have been ordered from the same house, have their prizes and points voided.

source : http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/show ... p?t=376815

So, looks like if you made two or more accounts, shipped them to the same house. Your prizes are voided. Was fun while it lasted. Looks like the "cut-off" date for accounts under investigation is July 1st. So if anyone ordered before than, you're lucky.

I personally made two, one for vista and some 360 controllers and another for a zune.