XBLA Wednesday 1/23: Undertow is Free
By Chris on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 at 1:22 PM PST In Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Gamer Life, Games, Microsoft, Microsoft
Microsoft’s peace offering to Xbox Live users, the Xbox Live Arcade game Undertow, is now available for free to all Xbox Live Gold and Silver members. This offer runs from now until 11:59pm PT on Sunday, January 27. The game normally costs 800 Microsoft Points ($10).
If you’ve already purchase the game, you’ll need to call up Microsoft at 1-800-4MY-XBOX and you’ll be rewarded with 800 points for already dishing out on the game.
So, are you happy with this? I wrote about how Microsoft doesn’t owe you anything recently, but as the issues plaguing Xbox Live continue to hassle gamers, this is far from the end of the complaints from Xbox Live users.
It took me several tries to actually download the game. The last couple of days I keep getting all kinds of random error codes on XBL.
I can STILL hardly log onto XBL
I’ve been having trouble downloading stuff as well. XBLM as a whole has been acting extremely funky, although I haven’t had any trouble actually playing online.
Download worked fine first time (as usual), the game is average but I will finish it.
Luckily, I had already downloaded the trial before all this. Therefore, all it had to do was unlock it. Still don’t know if my Live is as messed up as others.
Worth free, but wasn’t worth paying for, just in my opinion.
“So, are you happy with this?”
In a word, no. I’m still having sporadic problems with XBL, and quite frankly Undertow sucks. I would’ve much rather had a choice as to what to download as opposed to having a particular game forced upon me.
Sure, they didn’t have to give us anything, but a 800 MS point credit would’ve gone a lot farther to resolve my concerns than a free download of a game I don’t want.