Game Pass Core (Games With Gold - 2013-2023)

Games With Gold

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Vapor said:
Xbox promotion is good because of the fact you get to own the game forever. Makes me wonder if you can access the game without signing into XBL?
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I downloaded ACII with the XBL Gold deal and I've been playing it offline. So yeah, no xbox live required after you downloaded it.
 
As soon as some content gets pigeon holed as a little old, expect free games for X1!
 
I'm pretty sure this feature will be moved over to the XBOX ONE by 2015. MS would be stupid not to do so.
 
Good move by Microsoft. :)
Now they just need to upgrade their offerings.

Vapor said:
I don't understand why they don't just keep these games free all the time. Halo 3 is free right now right? So if you don't download it within the limited time frame that it's free, you have to pay for it if you want it?
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It's probably much more expensive to buy the 'sales-right' for the title on the platform forever, to compared to a month/year - so when they buy the rights to give the title away for a limited time for subscribers - they can get a much better deal than with a permanent deal. :)
Vapor said:
Additionally, PS+ doesn't always have the game available for free right? So it's only available for streaming for a limited time, kinda like Netflix with their movies.
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Nope, once purchased the button on PSN-store remain at 'free', if you search for the game after the promotion run out, it will still say free.
Back in the day, we used to have 5 downloads - but now it's limited to the two last devices the software were active on.
You can allways play it on two different platforms of the same type registered to your PSN-account, I think.
I think changes depending on the platforms it's available for.
So if you get a free PSP-game, wich you can play on both Vita and PSP.
I don't think the Vita adds to the PSP's - but once you download and run it on your third PSP - it will stop working, untill you log into PSN and deactivate one of your PSP's from your account to get it will start working again.
If you get a 'free' PS3-game - you'll be able to download and play it on 2 PS3's, once you get to the third, it will be dactivated, until you fix wich PS3's registered to your PSN-account.
Atleast that's how I heard it supposedly worked from people with 3 PS3's.. :p
I have only had 2 PS3's, 1 Vita, One PSPGo and 1 PSP.
And the PSPGo and PSP I have no clue where is anymore. :p
So I can't test the limitations - but if the game is a plus-freebie once - and you hit 'Purchase' when the price is 'Free' - it will forever say free, as long as you are using the same account.
You might need to log onto Sony webpage and deactivate a system once in a while, if you use many different PS3's - but game should still be free.
 
KongRudi said:
Good move by Microsoft. :)
Now they just need to upgrade their offerings.



It's probably much more expensive to buy the 'sales-right' for the title on the platform forever, to compared to a month/year - so when they buy the rights to give the title away for a limited time for subscribers - they can get a much better deal than with a permanent deal. :)

Nope, once purchased the button on PSN-store remain at 'free', if you search for the game after the promotion run out, it will still say free.
Back in the day, we used to have 5 downloads - but now it's limited to the two last devices the software were active on.
You can allways play it on two different platforms of the same type registered to your PSN-account, I think.
I think changes depending on the platforms it's available for.
So if you get a free PSP-game, wich you can play on both Vita and PSP.
I don't think the Vita adds to the PSP's - but once you download and run it on your third PSP - it will stop working, untill you log into PSN and deactivate one of your PSP's from your account to get it will start working again.
If you get a 'free' PS3-game - you'll be able to download and play it on 2 PS3's, once you get to the third, it will be dactivated, until you fix wich PS3's registered to your PSN-account.
Atleast that's how I heard it supposedly worked from people with 3 PS3's.. :p
I have only had 2 PS3's, 1 Vita, One PSPGo and 1 PSP.
And the PSPGo and PSP I have no clue where is anymore. :p
So I can't test the limitations - but if the game is a plus-freebie once - and you hit 'Purchase' when the price is 'Free' - it will forever say free, as long as you are using the same account.
You might need to log onto Sony webpage and deactivate a system once in a while, if you use many different PS3's - but game should still be free.
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I think he was talking about if you didn't get the game while it was free it wouldn't be free afterwards, essentially that games don't stay free for everyone for ever.
 
I do not understand why this happens to me, I just went to download Halo3 of Xbox.com and it says I have no valid payment option on file and the only option it gives me is to add payment option, I have not option to download? This happened to me with the Battlefield 4 beta for a few days then eventually worked? Do any of you know why this keeps happening to me?
 
CHROMExSKULL said:
I do not understand why this happens to me, I just went to download Halo3 of Xbox.com and it says I have no valid payment option on file and the only option it gives me is to add payment option, I have not option to download? This happened to me with the Battlefield 4 beta for a few days then eventually worked? Do any of you know why this keeps happening to me?
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Maybe it will help if you clean your cache for cookies, and re-log into your account, then activate the download, or try directly from your 360?
 
Come on MS if you're going to offer Halo 3 for free you should make the DLC free as well. Almost ever playlist requires DLC.
 
I am glad they are continuing this benefit. I love that it's not a rental like the PS+ way. But I like that with PS+, they offer newer titles in their rental service.
 
Oddly I'm not suddenly seeing lots of people on my friends list playing Halo 3 like they have with the other games given free.
 
The Wolf King said:
Oddly I'm not suddenly seeing lots of people on my friends list playing Halo 3 like they have with the other games given free.
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Perhaps it's just because since Halo 3 was such a big game anyway, most people have already played it and just don't see the point in going back?
 
So no news for November just yet? Hopefully we'll hear something next week. :)
 
I hope the next game is Fallout 3. I have already played it and have all the DLC completed just missing like 4 achivos in the main game....and someone sat on my game disc and broke it.
 
Games I'd like off the top of my head that I know are available via Xbox Live:

+ Halo 4
+ Both Fallouts
+ All three Max Payne's
+ all the Elder Scrolls on the 360
+ Grabbed by the Ghoulies
+ GTA: San Andreas
+ Far Cry series
+ Black
+ Gun
+ Penny Arcade: On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness
 
It was like old times, last time I checked the online numbers for Halo 3. Lots of kids have grown up since it launched and are enjoying it for the first time.
 
Diablo free? I doubt it. Oh, speak of that game, if you like that kind of game, check out Path of Exile on Steam. Free. Just released few days ago. Awesome game!
 
Wont be a game that came out this year..Maybe a Silent Hill game or Alan Wake, Condemned or something due to Halloween?
 
A Silent Hill would be awesome, as would the first Condemned, still need to get a few cheevos in that game
 
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