June Video Game Giveaway from DragonBlogger.com

 @ChrisDemele Mine was that most people can’t afford them monthly subscription with MMO’s and the Guild Wars buy 1x, play infinitely was great as I would rather buy expansion packs than pay a monthly fee to play in general (though I understand why businesses do it and it works, but you shouldn’t have to buy the game for $60 and then pay monthly, if you pay monthly the download and install of the game should be free if you say prepay a 6 month or year.
 
All of my giveaways were “winner picks the game” but previous winners have chosen:  Batman: Arkham City, Madden NFL 13 (isn’t out until August, pre-ordered for last winner), Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and one I think was International so I paypal’d the winnings.I also gave away a Hauppauge HD PVR 1445 gaming recorder device back in March, an iPad 3 on June 1st, 2 Kingston SSD 32GB USB Drives.  In the future I have plans to do (video game every month, Kindle eReader, Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 bundle, budget gaming laptop…etc).  I do at least 2 giveaways per month as a reward for my readers/fans and I enjoy it. 

 @RonaldSmith I know they are random and that can frustrate some contestants, so I am going to test out a new contest method called Contest Domination soon, this method allows readers to earn entries based on how much they promote and is not random to draw a winner, the winner will be the one who collects the most points.  If it is successful and works, this may help the most motivated win the prize rather than the most lucky. 

 @RonaldSmith Yeah, I see your point there too.  For my Contest Domination there is only 2 ways to get entries.  1) subscribe to our newsletter, #2) promote your own contest link and get others to subscribe to our newsletter ( you get 5 points for each person who subscribers under your referral link to the contest).  Nothing else, no scams, no liking a dozen pages, no surveys.  I HATE that crap, my contests will only ever involve liking my legitimate advertisers fanpages, twitter accounts, retweets or at most joining my own mailing list or an advertisers if they fund a contest.  
 
When I was giving the iPad 3 away the winner was so skeptical that it was real even when I contacted them  I have had people think my contests were scams before.

@RonaldSmith Yeah, copy of license, credit card or anything to claim prize is immediate scam, however in the U.S. it is require to fill out an tax form and report any winner of a contest where the prize is $600 or more value.  If you basically pay any single person more than $600 in a calendar year (even prize value that adds up, a form needs to be filled to the government and taxes may be owed by that individual for the prize).  This is why radio stations and casino’s have to collect your tax information to give you even concert tickets and such or gambling winnings over a certain amount.
 
There are certain contests I can’t open up Internationally, like certain gadgets, technologies and such that can’t cross borders, or require me to fill out customs…etc which makes it more difficult to keep my contests open Internationally, my work around is to not buy the contest prize until after contestant wins and offer paypal cash value if they are International winner. 

 @PeterRogala is my homie XD

 @AmandaSecord yeah hey Manduh  see the party continues around here

 @PeterRogala  @RonaldSmith Thanks guys, appreciate the feedback. I just do this blog as a hobby and for fun to entertain readers, provide information and giveaway cool stuff when I can get sponsors or fund it myself.

 @RonaldSmith You can choose the game when you win, you don’t have to pick what you left in comment.  Any game for any platform as long as price is $59.99 or less.