Microsoft Deals & Offers

June 3, 2014 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Games_with_Gold_games#Xbox_One (it has been free in other regions since). It's Kalimba in one of the other regions too.

If anyone has trouble getting the game from other regions can always try Japan.

I loved this game. It was free on GWG a few years ago.

What are advantages of Japan? It is also available in Taiwan and Singapore. You gonna do them as well?

Yes, I beleive it was posted but for MS Hong Kong store. Use Google Chrome on your computer and you'll get the site translated to english.

Still working, just grabbed it.

Cheers OP

Thanks for the heads up @karvai (highfive)

Great game

Live is enough. Read OP.

I was gonna say.. because I have Game Pass and it's asking for my money. (:I

Oh yes, I think you are right. Too many subscriptions this generation (ninja)

No it isn't. Maybe you're thinking of EA Access?

Also on Gamepass if you have that

Can also be used to buy physical items from the Microsoft Store including consoles and accessories. Use Quidco and get cash back on both purchases. (y)

Brilliant! Thanks bazinga!!

@EDEN188 yeah can use them for gamepass, gold, games ect. i applied £100 worth before and they have expiry date of 19th jan 2019 not an issue for me as used them for rdr2

Sorry to sound dumb, can these be used to buy the Game Pass? The whole MS Store seems so confusing to me with Gold subscription, Game pass, etc. Thanks in advance.

Just ordered all come through as £10 individual codes but all redeemed ok.

Carbon was like Underground (y) (highfive)

It was more like Carbon than Underground

I know they're completely different types of racing games and maybe its even unfair to compare the two but once you've played any Forza game, this feels like such a step down.

Good price, not so good game

They did in 2015. I liked it.

Steam Version here for £4.99 if it helps anyone.

Really enjoyed this. Very short and quite slow paced but packed full of atmosphere and personality. Heat added.

Is this PC too i.e. Play Anywhere?

It's true they're slowly trying to take it that direction, hence why you can buy the consoles on the xbox store delivered now, not to mention the Xbox games pass and their plans for a digital game streaming only (cheaper) console, it's only a matter of time really.

Its going in that dirrection anyway that should atleast match the price but i get your point

Never thought of it like this but makes sense!

Tbh they can't, they want to but they'd run the shops like "game" (that sell physical copies) out of business and they need them to sell the consoles.

I have ordered this as I wanted a fanless Surface. Bad experience of a work supplied Pro 3 which sounded like an Airbus on takeoff. Some of the screens cracked as they were getting so hot. Our IT dept swore there wasn't an issue with mine!!

Ohhhhhhhh, that's very, very, interesting, hmmmmmmmm, thanx. :-)

No, surface pro i5 and i7 models have always had a fan. And a very complex cooling system as well, involving water, for some models. Only the Surface 3 (with Atom cpu), Surface Go and Surface Pro m3 are fanless devices.

Hehehehehe, fair enough, that's cool, no problem. :-) As a fanless beast, don't those previous Surface Pro Tablet's have tendancy to get hot then?. Considering that they are arguably mini Laptop Hybrids at the end of the Day? (where the majority of Laptop's do have fan's, the majority of Tablet's don't - but these are arguably not a 'Tablet' Tablet?). Unless I'm missing something ...

Haha I meant fanless! The only fanless Surface Pro in the one with the M3 processor. Surface 3 and Go are all fanless.

Sea Gamer wouldn't take my Paypal so I paid the little extra for 300 HKD at Play Asia, which went through fine. Got the codes and redeemed them on the Microsoft HK store, no problem. No VPN or changing addresses.

Strange....not sure if it makes a difference but check/change the location on the console and then login/retry on the website.

Yep I’ve changed my region to Hong Kong on the website as suggested, it shows as being in HK after the edit on my profile. However when I go to redeem the code, it appears to load my profile back up and then says it’ll redeem to my email address with UK in brackets. I guess I’ll wait until my Xbox arrives and try setting the region there. Edit: It seems it’s finally picked up my change of region now!

As mentioned above, you need to change your region to Hong Kong. Either on Xbox or on website. Website: go to your account -> your info -> edit country /region.

Not working for me. I’ve bought a 300 code from Offgamers but when I try to redeem the code it says it’s for another region and to take the code back to the store despite me trying to redeem on the HK game page, it still always detects that I’m in the UK. I’ve also changed my region on the website to Hong Kong, still says it’ll be redeemed to the UK.

Think we where spoiled with the last Currys deal for same price ( Dual controllers and 4 games inc Fifa 19 and Forza ) So good I bought 2 with my Xexec discount and TCB £230 each :)

To be fair, my mum still calls me her kid and I'm 25.

Its probably the worst console I've bought, queued for ages too!! (flirt)

Lol its the same thing! Different name under Phillips. 3do

Never had that one, but I’ll give it a try, got to be better than the 3DO, god that was a mistake (fierce)

If it exists, it’s bad.

The pay to win isn't actually that bad tbh

Not a deal so much as it is just another "Free to play, pay to win" game. If people jut played the free game and never bought the in game purchases, they would soon have to change the way these games made money, but at least it's free to play. Good find anyway. Thanx OP (y)

You don’t need PS Plus for free to play games or Nintendo’s online subscription either, so cost is 100% irrelevant 8) Shot yourself in the foot there.

You will always get a Sony fanboy claiming you need Xbox live to play these ftp games on every deal like this, but of course they won't tell you that Xbox Live is £10 Cheaper than PS Plus which on its own proves that No ftp is "Free" on PS Plus either, and to add you have Free backward compatibility on the Xbox and you don't have to pay extra for cloud storage.

Price is £344 just now

Fair enough. Yeah that’s how I feel about the whole surface range until the surface book but also most premium laptops and phones this year. I bought my XPS 13 baseline from Very when they were doing 20% back in credit and have done the £100 back promo on the go making it £404 including keyboard. I wanted the matte display XPS so only got the 8GB i5 but really happy with the older model with ports. Fully agree that even in the last year (2-3 in apples case) the prices have gone mental for incremental updates. My XPS cost me £870 on that deal so not too bad.

SP isn't a proper laptop. It's too space compromised for that along with the disadvantages that brings eg. BGA SSD. Nobody wanting to do serious work would use a SP. I only bought mine because I got it cheap(er) through work. I'd dump it tomorrow if it wasn't for the fact that XPS13s and MBPs are silly money these days.

See a surface pro with keyboard and pen (say i5) is the same price bracket as premium ultrabooks or 2in1 but with less features (accepting the pen is amazing) so I see it as overpriced but with worse everything the premium laptops. Only just got 8th gen for instance. I think (only opinion) that there isn’t much choice with the level of features at go price range laptop wise but lots of choice at around 900-1K vs the pro.

The Surface Pro doesn't compete with the XPS13 or MBP. They're at completely difference price points for a start and the latter two are full laptops. The SP is a tablet with a cardboard keyboard. But at least it's a useable size compared to the Surface Go.

I've been reading that quite a lot of people have been banned for doing this especially when it's time to redeem the points, I take it you have redeemed ok and not been banned?

I just use the same uk account, collect all the daily uk points, then switch on vpn to usa and collect their points, its easy and quick on chrome with the binger app.

do I need to do this on a different Gamertag or can it be done on the same UK one?

I have a couple of free VPNs installed, Windscribe and Okayfreedom, Managed to collect a lot of reward points in the last 6 months: Xbox Gold till Sept 2020, and £80 of credit :D

What a good idea with the VPN. Now need a free VPN to do this with, what do you use?

Not dumb, it is no longer available (annoyed)

I am probably being dumb. I can't see where the £70 cashback is. Anyone able to tell me how to find it?

Can u connect a blue tooth keyboard

Core M though (skeptical)

Sorry but 4GB of Ram is too low the min i would go for these days Is 8GB in a device like this