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Pizza Hut Tempts Gamers With a $10,000 Gaming Setup

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lead-me-not-into-temptation dept.

Now when you are trying to decide which late-night temple of crusty dough and burnt cheese gets your dinner vote, there may be an extra moment's pause for Pizza Hut. Along with a free 30-day GameFly membership, you also have the chance to win the gaming setup of a decade. Including a Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, and a 60-inch plasma TV, this package would be sure to make any gamer's heart skip a beat. Unfortunately, it also means you have to break that typical gamer diet of soy and bean curd, good luck.

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  1. Thanks by ucblockhead · · Score: 5, Funny

    Without Slashdot, I would have missed Pizza Huts' advertising campaign!

    Can you alert me next time Coke has one of those bottle-cap things? I always miss those...

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    1. Re:Thanks by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I liked the old bottle caps that told you if you won on the spot. These new games make you enter personal information on a website before they even tell you if you won. To me it seems less of a game and more of an experiment of who is willing to be advertised more to for being paid about a nickel on average. It is more than a waste of time.

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    2. Re:Thanks by Jarjarthejedi · · Score: 3, Informative

      Dr. Pepper's new Indiana Jones contest lets you know if you've won something on the cap, but not what you've won until you've registered on their site. Most of the prizes are pathetic too, they advertise a '1 in 6 chance of winning!' which is easy when half your prizes are Wallpapers and Screensavers, of the type that most people give away.

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  2. Enter without a pizza by ExploHD · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://pizzahut.eprize.net/gamefly/index.tbapp

    1. Re:Enter without a pizza by Jarjarthejedi · · Score: 3, Insightful

      More like sell the Wii on ebay and buy a $10,000 gaming workstation :P.

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  3. Re:But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why don't you go with hot grits instead? You ask a naked and petrified Natalie Portman to bring them to you.

  4. I usually don't complain... by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 5, Informative

    But this is an ad. Lets just call it an ad, or a "sponsored story" and move on. If you guys didn't get paid for this thing then that's even sadder. I don't mind the ads on /., it keeps things going, but please don't try to pass them off as content. There's nothing in this story that at all meets the (admittedly low) editorial bar for submissions here. Its product placement, pure and simple.

    1. Re:I usually don't complain... by Killjoy_NL · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Personally I just wish with a lot of those contests, that they weren't restricted to the US, I'm just a poor silly dutch boy who would like to win some cool gaming gear :)

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  5. Re:They need spend that on paying there drivers ga by Joe+The+Dragon · · Score: 2, Funny

    You have to cut words to get stuff to fit in the Subject line.

  6. Re:A fucking sweepstakes? by bdcrazy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Be the 50th caller to win a change to be in a raffle to compete to possibly win a game piece.

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  7. Where the $10,000 goes. by Animats · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's where the $10,000 goes:

    The big-ticket item is the furniture.

    Did they throw in any games?

    1. Re:Where the $10,000 goes. by Jarjarthejedi · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You're assuming they bought it all at retail, and, in the case of the Wii, markup beyond retail. That's a fairly unlikely assumption.

      (And what's with your numbers for the consoles anyways? I can't find anything on the linked pages to support your prices at all, if we go by cheapest they're $285, $315, and $195 for the PS3, 360, and Wii respectively. If we go by actual retail the prices are $399, $350 or $450 (basic and elite), and $250 for the PS3, 360, and Wii respectively. All my data was taken off Amazon's prices, which mirror standard retail in 90% of cases, except the Wii which was simply priced according to my knowledge of the system's prices.)

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  8. Re:What are you doing here? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    shutup you windows loser. Everyone know it's /. and not \. . Only a M$ buffoon would put \.

  9. No thanks by the_Bionic_lemming · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only problem with the promotion is you have to be able to actually purchase something from Pizza Hut.

    The last time I attempted to, my stomach leaped out of my mouth and dragged me pert damn near fifty miles - then proceeded to slap me around the head while burping vindictives that haunt me to this day.

    I learned a lesson that day, I found out it was more nutritious to suck pond scum from a fetid Florida swamp, then to attempt to consume anything that pizza hut calls a pizza.

    I need to start a therapy group.

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  10. Re:Don't plasma displays still suffer from burn-in by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    This has changed, and not recently. There is image retention, which means that if you leave your display on the same, high contrast image for a while, you'll see the bright bits on very dark screens for a couple of minutes. It's nothing even remotely permanent, and it never happens in motion video.

    Unless you're showing airport departure times 24/7 (where I admit burn-in is likely), plasma screens are awesome. For gaming in particular, the total response times on plasma are typically better (try the calibration tool in Guitar Hero), and Panasonic (the only remaining plasma manufacturer) has great scalers in their sets so you don't get the fuzzy image that so many LCDs have when not showing their native resolution.

  11. Re:What are you doing here? by Your.Master · · Score: 2, Funny

    ^ See? Nerds.

  12. Personal computers by Mishra100 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Although I don't care about these contests, I wonder why the PC wasn't added.

    Is it because it's not popular anymore?

    Or is it because a 3000 dollar addition is a little too much?

  13. Hmm.... by sesshomaru · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Hmm, so basically, I have a choice of a real pizza or a Pizza Hut pizza with an incredibly small chance of winning an ultimate gaming set up.

    I'll take the real pizza, please.

    Incidentally, anyone remember Pizza the Hut from Spaceballs? He was cool. (I'm just trying to make this article somewhat relevant to this site.)

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