News Nvidia Is Giving Away a GeForce RTX 4080 With a Diablo IV Backplate

[Admin]

Nvidia has announced another giveaway of one of its RTX 40 series GPUs, this time surrounding two RTX 4080 Founders Edition cards featuring a custom Diablo IV GPU backplate.

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[Deleted member 2731765]

Once again, none of the Nvidia links work. It says, "bad merchant" as always.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Once again, none of the Nvidia links work. It says, "bad merchant" as always.

Yeah, our price widget people don't know how to restrict URL parsing to just the Nvidia store, apparently. I've used Tiny.url links in place of the original (munged) links now.

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

Thanks. Yes, the links are now working fine.

 

[Giroro]

So this is a part of Nvidia's confusing and impossible-to-enter summer of RTX sweepstakes?
The rules are contradictory, but I'm pretty sure you need to be a big influencer to be selected to win.

Nvidia still hasn't gotten back to me on who is eligible nor how to enter. The vague rules are written as if the "follow instructions" is more of a nomination process for picking which influencer wins, and doing the valuable work of promoting their brand through social media does not necessarily earn you your (maximum of one for the entire summer-long contest) entry.

This sweepstakes contest is tricky, and really rubs me the wrong way.

 

[bdcrlsn]

What's this? A decently optimized game in 2023? What's the world coming to??

 

[blacknemesist]

So this is a part of Nvidia's confusing and impossible-to-enter summer of RTX sweepstakes?
The rules are contradictory, but I'm pretty sure you need to be a big influencer to be selected to win.

Nvidia still hasn't gotten back to me on who is eligible nor how to enter. The vague rules are written as if the "follow instructions" is more of a nomination process for picking which influencer wins, and doing the valuable work of promoting their brand through social media does not necessarily earn you your (maximum of one for the entire summer-long contest) entry.

This sweepstakes contest is tricky, and really rubs me the wrong way.

See points 3 and 4.

 

[JTWrenn]

Does it play well without a 4080? Wondering as someone who has not managed to play for more than an hour without a server crash. 3 hour queue earlier today. Maybe the 4080 has a queue optimizer?

 

[Giroro]

See points 3 and 4.

points 3 and 4 on what?

 

[pixelpusher220]

points 3 and 4 on what?

Of the terms and conditions? linked towards the bottom of the page?

3. To enter this promotion, you must:

1. Follow our social channels on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/TikTok for key prompts and instructions
2. Like/comment/tag/share posts across social according to prompts

All entries, whether online or by mail, must be received no later than between 6:00 AM on June 6th, 2023, Pacific Daylight Time and 5:00 PM on June 20th, 2023, Pacific Daylight Time.


This is a new take on the normal 'sweepstakes' concept. Instead of registering and doing certain things to explicitly 'enter', they are making you follow them and wait for instructions on 'how' to actually enter. Clearly they want to drive more engagement than simply people writing a snail mail entry w/o interacting with them. Is that tricky? I wouldn't say so, but yes it rubs me the wrong way as well.

The kicker is that even if you win, if you don't respond 'by email' within 2 days of being notified...you forfeit your prize!

 

[bigdragon]

Does anyone actually know someone who has won one of these social promotions?

Tons of companies have done the like, follow, share/retweet thing. I don't know of a single person who has ever won one of these big giveaways though. It feels like free advertising to me. That isn't a big deal when your socials have small followings, but after the numbers climb the idea of spamming followers with ads for free becomes unappealing.

 

[pixelpusher220]

Does anyone actually know someone who has won one of these social promotions?

Tons of companies have done the like, follow, share/retweet thing. I don't know of a single person who has ever won one of these big giveaways though. It feels like free advertising to me. That isn't a big deal when your socials have small followings, but after the numbers climb the idea of spamming followers with ads for free becomes unappealing.

You do now! I have just been informed I have won a Harbor Freight pressure washer from the ever official looking email 'ykefbhjmwzgkpucgsipznj@gltyvz.lagubaratku.com'. I'm sure the corporate system was just down and they're using their personal email to make sure it's timely!