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Coke gives away 3 million MS points

Xbox partnership laid out
Coca-Cola is teaming up with Microsoft this week to give away $37,000 (£25,000) worth of Xbox 360 Microsoft Points. As in, they're free.

The partnership will see three million points given away via a Happiness Factory promotion on Xbox Live - and it's 'first come, first served'.

360 users will be whisked off to the Coke Zone site where they can register for their points and then spend them on lots of nice Xbox things, like videos or games.

Let us know if you win and what you'll spend the points on.

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Posted by minignaz
Not sure what I would spend the points on, probably the Pit for Fallout 3 and the Street Fighter Arcade game. Wouldn't mind winning something, never win anything :cry:
Posted by StonecoldMC
So its going to be done on a first come first serve basis? Brilliant! I wont get in the house tonight until at least 6pm! Hopefully theres a wee 50 MS points left, as im currently stuck on 750 MS points and another 50 woud allow me to get a new game.

Chances though? Slim & none!
Posted by mfnick
Outrun 2. Its out next week!

http://kotaku.com/5171956/outrun-online-arcade-gallery-races-by

:mrgreen:
Posted by Dajmin
Outrun 2 is looking sort of cool, but I'd want a demo before I bought it in case it feels wrong. It's never going to match up to the old arcade versions though :)

Which reminds me - why have we never seen any remakes of Chase HQ? :p
Posted by mcfcbj
Am I just being silly, but I can't find it.
Posted by gillri
I just signed in to xbox live but it isnt letting me on the cokezone website, I looked on the 'Spotlight' and the 'Inside Xbox' menu's, how does it work?
Posted by mfnick
Well it felt perfect to me on original Xbox so i dont see how it can go wrong. :)
Posted by Black Mantis
Are you a Gold member?
Posted by gillri
yeah im gold been a xbox live member since June 2003
Posted by shiftymorgan
Where are you supposed to do this? its not made very clear...
Posted by Black Mantis
Well I'm hoping no access will be granted till 6pm when I return from work! :twisted:
Posted by bizbaz45
can't see a thing here either. Tryed both my UK/US accounts not a thing.
Better not be a US only thing after all this. :cry:
Posted by Dajmin
It says "this week" so it might not actually be live yet. And I just checked - there's no mention of it at CokeZone either so no need to sign up.
Posted by SoulChimera
I can't find anything either. Maybe it's not until later this week.
Posted by shiftymorgan
Hmm its the middle of this week though..
Posted by minignaz
Can't see anything on the website either. Hmmm, might just have to wait until tonight. maybe it won't be active until the Americans wake up?
Posted by SoulChimera
Maybe Andy could shed a bit more light on the matter?
Posted by Hurtgravy76
These kind of promotions are nearly always for the usa only. The fact that there is no imformation anywhere for this promotion leads me to believe this may be the case.

I will believe it when I see it. Xbox Live updates around 10am here but its a global service so when its updated we all get updated at the same time, its just the time difference.
Posted by dazzadavie2
Well if your signed up to coke zone I'm sure they would send out an e-mail about it, and if its something that's going to appear on XboxLive or Xbox.com then I sure majornelson.com would post some info in it. So I hope its not started yet, :cry:
Posted by lonewolf2002
If the headline was MS are giving away 3 million grams of coke it might of held more interest. 8)
Posted by captain savaloy
Yay, free points to sling at overpriced crapola on the xbox marketplace!!!! :wink:
Posted by WHERESMYMONKEY
went on live at lunch time. couldn't find any mention of it anywhere. more details pleease CVG! if you have them that is.
Posted by Dajmin
I was gonna say it wasn't overpriced, but a lot of it is. Err... carry on, sir, nothing to see here :)

I'm a little more concerned about the lack of HDD space I have left for stuff like this. Right now I have a few Gb, but a demo and a few XBLA games and I'll be out.
Posted by dazzadavie2
Found info at http://presscentre.coca-cola.co.uk/viewnews/em_coca_cola_great_britain_spreads_a_little_happiness_with_the_launch_of_the_happiness_factory_ad_em

"In addition the campaign will see two media firsts in the form of an innovative new Xbox partnership. This will include a 3 million Xbox point giveaway, online 'Coca-Cola' Xbox gaming gurus giving tips and advice and the chance for gamers to customize their Xbox dashboard."
Posted by Mortey
Did they just call a mixture of those bands a supergroup???

:roll:
Posted by ricflair
With all the aggression and macho rubbish on XBL, I always thought alot of them must be quite fond of coke anyway.

A match made in heaven so it seems.
Posted by Black Mantis
I hope it's a weekend thing.
Posted by svd_grasshopper
regurgitated news?

is coke giving you some money too CVG?!
Posted by Standard
boring
Posted by Dajmin
Was wondering too.
I wonder if that means we're about to get an update to this tacked onto the bottom with some actual detail about how to get in on the action.
Posted by Hurtgravy76
Yeah, it seems as though only cvg knows about this, has not been reported anywhere else. You do realise April fools day isn't until 1st April?
Posted by FatBoyFonz
Probably all it is is a new thing to spend 'CokeZone Points' on - probably spend 10 points for your chance to win 5000ms points or something similar.
Posted by blackmercury15
Why don't you cite your sources CGV? Where can I find this?
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