By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - Microsoft Discussion - Bought a 360 this year? Registered it? Free games for you.

scotland yard on 04 October 2007

I had an email in my inbox this afternoon with three Xbox LIVE marketplace codes to download games -- Joust, Frogger, and Robotron. The letter said they're sending them out to anyone who bought their 360 in the calendar year and registered it on xbox.com.

I have no idea if it will still work, but if you haven't registered your console yet, I figured you might want to give it a shot and see if you'll get one of these emails, too. Three free games for a simple form seems more than worth the hassle.

Also, did anyone else get any different games? Or does everyone get the same ones? 



Around the Network
jasonnc80 on 04 October 2007

I got the same ones. I think everybody did.



Completed X360:
High Def Movie Collection
superchunk on 04 October 2007

"in the calendar year" wtf. I bought my brothers the week after xmas, and now they are doing this for 2007 only. MS is a bunch of SOB's.



BenKenobi88 on 04 October 2007

JOUST!



LEFT4DEAD411.COM
Bet with disolitude: Left4Dead will have a higher Metacritic rating than Project Origin, 3 months after the second game's release.  (hasn't been 3 months but it looks like I won :-p )

Adam540 on 04 October 2007

what the hell, i only got codes for joust and robotron and I already bought joust when i first got my system at launch



Currently Playing:

Xbox 360 - Rock Band, NHL 08, Skate, Halo 3, Mass Effect

Wii - Mario Galaxy

Around the Network
tk1797 on 04 October 2007

Its the same codes they gave out before. If anyone wants codes for Joust and Robotron pm me. I won't be using as I already received those games free from a different promotion. edit: Gave the codes to madskillz. None left, sorry.



 

Ari_Gold on 05 October 2007

i would really appreciate if anyone has some codes they don't want... and send them this way... thanks



Morgyn on 05 October 2007

Joust fo sho.



sinha on 05 October 2007

I got codes for Joust and Robotron, but my Robotron code didn't work. And I didn't make an error, I entered it three times. Oh well, I will never bother to play Robotron either way.



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

sinha on 05 October 2007
superchunk said:
"in the calendar year" wtf. I bought my brothers the week after xmas, and now they are doing this for 2007 only. MS is a bunch of SOB's.

Only in the warped and irrational minds of gamers (in this case--big surprise--Nintendo fanboys) could a company be "SOBs" for giving out free games that they never even promised to give out.

You had no expectation of getting these three games for free when you bought the 360 in the first place, so on what grounds can you complain?

Would MS be SOBs if they bundle some game with newly sold 360s, unless they mail you a free copy also?    My Premium is old and doesn't have the HDMI port. Those bastards, they should send me a brand new 360.

 



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick