I have a goal in life. A dream that one day, I’ll be able to own an island of my very own. And then lock the rest of the gang up on it, and leave them to rot away, cursing my name. Hoo boy, I may have watched way too much Arrow lately.
Anyway, that dream is now sort of within grasp, thanks to Just Cause 3. The upcoming explodathon is getting ready to launch in December, and to get the hype rolling, developer Avalanche has decided to give away an actual island. So what’s the catch? Several actually.
To enter, you’ve got to live in the US of A (excluding Puerto Rico), Canada (excluding Quebec), Mexico, or Chile, so that rules out most of us already and this post is a complete waste of your time. But hey, at least I’m honest!
Next, you’ve got to buy the Day one edition of Just Cause 3, and rack up some Chaos Points by being creative with how you Bayslap the environment and structures placed on it. The player with the most Chaos Points by February 29 of 2016, gets an actual island.
Here’s where it gets catchier.
Said island is not guaranteed to be habitable, and you’ll have to pay taxes on it. If you happen to be a Mexican resident and winner, you get the cash equivalent of what the island is worth. If you’re a Canadian resident and winner, you have to answer this question before you get the island, I shit you not:
As a condition of winning a prize, the winner must correctly answer the following skill testing question: (3×6) + 12/2-8 =
That island is apparently valued at $50 000, which probably means a pretty decent chunk of real estate. A quick glance over at a USA site that deals in private islands for sales, shows a good example of this.
For instance, here’s a piece of land that measures 5 acres across over in the state of Maine, for $555 000.
Which would be just perfect for the jail that I want to build to imprison everybody on. Crap, you weren’t supposed to read that. Carry on, nothing to see here.
Last Updated: August 26, 2015
Kromas,powered by windows 10.
August 26, 2015 at 09:45
Island – power/internet = nope.
Sell it and buy a nice house and a great PC. 🙂
Marc O Polo
August 26, 2015 at 12:44
Power is easy, go solar, anyone who builds a house without it nowadays should be shot!
Kromas,powered by windows 10.
August 26, 2015 at 12:46
Yeah but you still need to build the house. That will cost you. Just sell the thing for monies!
VampyreSquirrel
August 26, 2015 at 09:45
Hahaha, win an island, sell said island, buy a house, PROFIT.
Captain JJ Fantasticus
August 26, 2015 at 10:14
Win Island…put Rince on Island…PEACE
VampyreSquirrel
August 26, 2015 at 10:15
I tried that in Minecraft… it didn’t work.
Ranting Raptor
August 26, 2015 at 10:15
but Rince on Island? Urrrmmm.. RUN RINCE RUN!!! They are trying to BUT YOU!!!!
Captain JJ Fantasticus
August 26, 2015 at 11:35
*fixed…but now that just makes it sound much funnier.
Alien Emperor Trevor
August 26, 2015 at 09:52
Giving away a whole island. Why? Just cos.
VampyreSquirrel
August 26, 2015 at 09:56
Off topic: Do you sell weapons on Warframe when you’ve leveled them up to open up slots, or do you hoard them?
Alien Emperor Trevor
August 26, 2015 at 10:06
I hoard them. Collect all the things!
You have no idea how much grinding I did to build two Miters, one to keep & another to use to build the Panthera.
VampyreSquirrel
August 26, 2015 at 10:14
I thought so… guess I found someone else that hoards things in games. I’m going to have to buy platinum at some stage.
Also I’ve almost finished building my Rhino frame 🙂
Just need credits to buy the actual Rhino bp and to complete it.
Alien Emperor Trevor
August 26, 2015 at 10:25
I tend to do that in all the games where it’s possible. In Oblivion I had a cool house mod with tons of rooms, display cases & mannequins – collected a crap load of weapons & armour sets, all nicely displayed.
Other than a few customisations more slots are what I spend most of my platinum on. I usually wait until I get a nice 75% off as a daily log-in reward as well.
I like Rhino, he’s a cool frame to use.
VampyreSquirrel
August 26, 2015 at 10:34
Rhino just happened to be the first full set of BPs I got.
Have to wait for the 50 or 75% off now with the exchange rates going like they are.
Yeah, I did the same in Oblivion, and Skyrim. I have a mass amount of gear and other random crap on Diablo 3 and WoW… I’ll stop now 😛
Ranting Raptor
August 26, 2015 at 10:06
lol. Random
Hammersteyn
August 26, 2015 at 10:08
CLICKBAIT!
Ranting Raptor
August 26, 2015 at 10:10
No. Quite relevant. Why should they report on local affecting gaming news only? That would be silly
*Yeah I’m being that guy now
Hammersteyn
August 26, 2015 at 10:11
XD Well done!
Hammersteyn
August 26, 2015 at 10:12
But in my defense I’m referring to a similar article on a different site that garnered some twitter attention and I felt compelled to make a comment
Ranting Raptor
August 26, 2015 at 10:15
You comment? I thought you only upvote? Shush now and get clicking!
Hammersteyn
August 26, 2015 at 10:20
*Clicks
Oh wait, that was the sound of my carpel tunnel syndrome
Gavin Mannion
August 26, 2015 at 10:14
While I’d like to agree and mock Darryn.. the headline doesn’t imply you can win an Island.. it’s just saying the game is giving one away.. so factually entirely true..
also.
CLICKBAIT!!!111!
Hammersteyn
August 26, 2015 at 10:18
Oof, just got spanked with a lesson on proper grammar.
*Scuttles back to my hole
Alien Emperor Trevor
August 26, 2015 at 10:55
*cave. The hole is in Kimberly. 😉
Hammersteyn
August 26, 2015 at 11:06
XD
VampyreSquirrel
August 26, 2015 at 10:15
You’re clickbait!
Hammersteyn
August 26, 2015 at 10:19
I know right. People see my comments and they click reply 😛
VampyreSquirrel
August 26, 2015 at 10:21
I see this… It’s kinda worrying.
Captain JJ Fantasticus
August 26, 2015 at 10:13
Why exclude Quebec?
Alien Emperor Trevor
August 26, 2015 at 10:15
Goddamn Frenchies, that’s why!
Ranting Raptor
August 26, 2015 at 10:16
Well that was friendly 0_0
Captain JJ Fantasticus
August 26, 2015 at 10:20
Is there any significance to the number 16 that I’m completely missing?
Hammersteyn
August 26, 2015 at 10:22
Yeah, it’s the amount of people that enters who will get the answer right
Alien Emperor Trevor
August 26, 2015 at 10:26
Well, 1 + 6 = 7. Which is a magical number for a certain unnamed person.
Hammersteyn
August 26, 2015 at 10:28
Or maybe
J 10
U 21
S 19
T 20
C 3
A 1
U 21
S 19
E 5
3 3
10+21+19-20-3-1-21+19-5-3 = 16
Sageville
August 26, 2015 at 10:34
You have too much time
Hammersteyn
August 26, 2015 at 10:38
Or I’m really clever……….No I’m kidding
Captain JJ Fantasticus
August 26, 2015 at 11:34
Wow
Sageville
August 26, 2015 at 10:25
I don’t live in Murica.
Dutch Matrix
August 26, 2015 at 10:31
Relax. Rammstein’s got us covered:
“We’re all living in Amerika
Amerika
Is Wunderbar!”
And if Rammstein says so, then so it is…
Brady miaau
August 26, 2015 at 12:03
Too true!
Jason
August 26, 2015 at 12:35
This article is incorrect. According to the Official Rules, the island is valued at 50 thousand. Not 500 thousand.
HvR
August 26, 2015 at 15:04
$50k not $500k, so you probably looking at something like this #Dropping_a_zero_like_a_Geoff
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/7053199.jpg