Mountain Dew has long been the stereotypical gamer drink of choice (besides Bawls, I guess), but Electronic Arts has cooked up a marketing scheme to drive gamers away from Mountain Dew towards something that doesn't taste like moose bile.
Enter Dr Pepper: between now and March 31st and again between July 1st and December 31st, each 14-, 16-, and 20-ounce bottle of Dr Pepper will come with free downloadable content for popular EA-published games. So far, content for Mass Effect 2, Spore, The Sims, Battlefield Heroes, and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is available, although the process seems to be rather convoluted. The DLC is available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and Mac games, but not so fast -- there are accounts to be registered and ID numbers to be stored. You can claim your DLC from Dr Pepper's Web site.
There's no word on what kind of DLC is being offered in this promotion, but free is free. Right?
Starting in April, fountain drinks will get in on the action, although Cherry Chocolate and Diet Dr Pepper are excluded, which doesn't bother me because both of those flavors taste awful.
I'm going to leave you guys with this observation: I think Southern dudes are predisposed toward the OG Dr Pepper. Every guy I know -- teachers, friends, uncles, coaches -- loves the stuff, yours truly included. How many of you dig on the sickly-sweet concoction? And how many of you could be convinced to drink it for free DLC?
Dr. Pepper Giving Away Free EA DLC [The Escapist]
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3:00 AM on 01.08.2010
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My wive and I have been buying them up for BFF Heroes. Many EU players are STEAMED that they can't get in on this and many more have never even heard of DP.
No loss however, they have had a few BFF Promotions that -we- have not been able to take part in. We are sending extra codes to friends as a result.
Dr. Pepper is actually a well known product in Europe.
I won't pretend to know what goes on "over there"; however it is surprising to see how many people on the BF-Heroes boards, from there, are not certain what it is. -EVEN- more starling are the American players who haven't heard of it; now -that- is harder to believe.
Plus, I don't drink soda. And I have a feeling by the time I managed to get the ME2 content, I'd have spent well over the price of the actual content on XBL.
Also, waiting for the 'this is why Americans are fat' argument. Sure to pop up somewhere, yes?
I wish they'd just put the DLC codes on the insides of the labels though. Last time I used their website was when they gave out free bottles for the Chinese Democracy release and that was a huge pain in the ass for everybody involved. Hope their servers can handle the load this time.
IT'S GOT ELECTROLYTES!!!
Greetings from Europe!
It definitely has what I (and plants) crave!!!
I loved the stuff...then they stopped putting it out here.
Sad Panda :(
No sorry. I'm a Jones kinda guy.
It has Mass Effect 2 DLC.
*sweeps entire shelf into cart*
The saddest part is I won't drink any of it. Down the drain it goes.
Especially the National Alpiner looks awesome. ;)
ooo...or a shaken can of Dr.Pepper grenade.
Also, no Dragon Age DLC?
I love Dr Pepper but I'm really more of a Root Beer kind of guy. Now that stuff is the drink of the gods!!
"In Mass Effect 2 (shipping January 26th for the Xbox 360 videogame and entertainment system, PC), a shooter RPG from EA's award-winning BioWare™ division, there are three unique pieces of armor: two helmets and a visor."
Boy, do I want those. :)
I'm not trying to sell you on the promo (I don't really even care how successful it is) it's just the facts, they're good items!
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