Comments on: Age of Empires 3, PC – 10p

By: Lewie Procter

Lewie Procter — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:38:22 +0000

In reply to Navagon. I did find that quite odd. That address could be anyone.

By: Navagon

Navagon — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:36:47 +0000

Hotmail? What legitimate organisation uses a hotmail account? Oh, Microsoft. Never mind.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:20:11 +0000

In reply to MaxNormal. sweet, thanks MaxNormal

By: MaxNormal

MaxNormal — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:12:15 +0000

From the games for windows forums
“Update #2:
Due to the overwhelming success of the Age of Empires III sale, we have temporarily run out of keys to unlock the game. You can still buy the game at this amazing price and you will get/see a key in the next week. When new keys are added to the system you will be auto-assigned a key, there is no need to call support or take any other action from your end. We will post here on the forums when the keys are available and the next time you click ‘View Game Keys’ for the game you should be assigned one.

Thank you for your patience and we hope you enjoy the game.”

By: tom

tom — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 02:44:04 +0000

Is anyone else having problems finding the cd-key. I know where it should be in the download games tab it just says it hasn’t been assigned. Wonder if its another civ 5 problem and they ran out of keys.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:48:31 +0000

Is there any way to buy this for a friend who doesn’t have a visa debit?

By: nomilarac

nomilarac — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 22:53:55 +0000

I can’t buy it either here from Spain, “unsupported region” crap in the webplace. I downloaded and installed the GfW client but the game is nowhere to be there, so it looks like M$ is pushing me hard to uninstall and forget about this PoS GfW is.

By: Lewie Procter

Lewie Procter — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 22:44:50 +0000

In reply to Protome. But then they wouldn't have got all those lovely new credit card details. Or got people into the habit/idea of buying PC games with MS Points.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:48:28 +0000

In reply to Chapotin. You can just uninstall the client once you've downloaded Age of Empires 3 anyway. As far as I know.

By: mqpzla

mqpzla — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:30:36 +0000

In reply to Protome.

Steam is still giving it for free:
http://www.steampowered.com/nvidia/
http://www.steampowered.com/ati_offer1a/
The nvidia offer was tested today and still works, not sure about the ATI one.
On the topic of GFW, anyone tried to order from one of the countries not supported by xbox live?
It seems to require an xbox live account which does not let me enter the real country I live in.

By: Ringwraith

Ringwraith — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:00:31 +0000

There’s no doubt that despite the terrible service that comes with Game For Winarrrrghhh, only being 10p makes up for it.
The only way it could really be not worth the 10p is if they then didn’t allow you to download it.

By: StrongBow

StrongBow — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:29:55 +0000

In reply to Protome.

Amen and well said.

I may as well just say this and get it out.

I didn’t buy it, not even for 10P, and here’s why.

At 10P, why not just give it away? They are not possibly making anything on it, why not get people to install the client by giving it away for free.

It may seem like I’m a scrounger not willing to pay 10P for a game, but what kind of scroungers are they that they sell it for that price? It can barely cover the transaction cost.

I’ve actually bought several recommendations from Savy gamer in the last month, especially the EA deal that was going. Battlefield 2 complete collection, Mass Effect 2 and Crysis 2 pre-order.

When GTA 2 was barely 5 years old they released it for free.

I’m not saying that devs should or have to give things away for free, but at 10P who is making any money out of it at all? They’d have got more people onto their service giving it away, like Valve did with Portal and HL2DM.

They’d have done better to say “And day Seven, Age of Empires 3 for free.” and get people onboard

/rant

By: Chapotin

Chapotin — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:15:37 +0000

Steam gave me left 4 dead 2 for free when i was banned from VAC with modernwarfare 2 for no reason (a lot of people was vac banned without reason at this moment)

And steam is SOOOOOOOOOOOO much better than gfwl, microsoft don’t have any chance against valve.
But it’s a great offer, bought it even if i have to reinstall their ugly interface.

By: Protome

Protome — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:01:26 +0000

In reply to mamac. Better than when Steam gave Portal away for free? Or when Steam gave HL2:DM away for free?

By: mamac

mamac — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:45:10 +0000

Wow this is awesome better than any steam offer ever!

By: Ringwraith

Ringwraith — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:28:04 +0000

Visa is different to Visa Electron isn’t it?

By: krzaq

krzaq — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:11:57 +0000

I live in Poland and can see the deal in GFWL client with proper price but whenever I try to add it to the basket it tells me that i need Xbox GOLD status to use that deal. WTF Microsoft?

By: Persus-9

Persus-9 — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:00:07 +0000

Wow, I’ve finally found a reason to like GFWL. Not this game in particular although I’m not saying no a 10p but the fact they seem to only region check by bank details so I can buy it with my UK card even though I’m currently in Sweden. I wish all services were so considerate of the needs of traveling customers.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:19:37 +0000

Thanks. Less-than-brilliant website, but amazing deal.
Incidentally, for anyone struggling to find the serial code, it’s here: http://i.imgur.com/rCT76.png

By: Diziet

Diziet — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:13:30 +0000

Interesting that you have to add it to your shopping cart before you see the discounted price. Well played microsnot.

By: Imperial Creed

Imperial Creed — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:32:24 +0000

In reply to rpsgc. No worries mate.

By: rpsgc

rpsgc — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:30:04 +0000

Imperial Creed, thank you so much!! That worked for me as well!

Also, FYI, this is the Complete Edition of the game, not just the base game! 🙂

By: Lewie Procter

Lewie Procter — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:20:30 +0000

In reply to Delusibeta. Not effectively free. Effectively 10 MS Points.

By: Imperial Creed

Imperial Creed — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:13:35 +0000

So, it turns out that if you live in Ireland and try to buy the game via the website, you’ll be told your region is not supported.

But, if you download and install the Games For Windows Marketplace standalone client and log in with the same details, you can successfully buy the game that way.

What the hell, Microsoft?

By: Delusibeta

Delusibeta — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:51:10 +0000

In reply to Ben Rose. Although for people who have some Microsoft Funny Money left over from 360 transactions, this game is effectively free.