Get a Free Xbox Live Game

22 Responses (Add) | Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 at 9:48pm

Just got this email a few minutes ago…

Dear Xbox LIVE Members:

During this past holiday season you helped us break a number of Xbox LIVE records. This included our largest sign-up of new members to Xbox LIVE in our 5 year history and just yesterday you broke the record for the single biggest day of concurrent members ever on the service.

As a result of this massive increase in usage we know that some of you experienced intermittent Xbox LIVE issues over the holiday break. While the service was not completely offline at any given time, we are disappointed in our performance. I would like to take this moment to thank you each and every one of you for your patience and understanding as our team has worked around the clock to return the service to a stable state.

At the same time we would like to offer a token of our appreciation to all of you in celebration of record success for the service. And as a thank you for your loyalty during this holiday period, we will be offering all of our Xbox LIVE members around the world access to a full Xbox LIVE Arcade game that will be available to download free of charge. In the coming weeks we will be sharing the specific details of this offer with you.

Thank you again for helping make Xbox LIVE everything that it is today!

Sincerely,

Marc Whitten
General Manager, Xbox LIVE

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22 Comments

Dallas J Clark

January 3rd, 2008
at 9:53pm

That’s pretty cool, since I’m only a basic member

VvCompHelpvV

January 3rd, 2008
at 9:54pm

Very Cool Chris. I hope I’m there when the info is given out. 8)

X-box live does rock though. I mean, you can send voice mail!! SWEET!!

Mike P

January 3rd, 2008
at 10:14pm

This is great for me as I am an active Xbox live user, and usually don’t get Microsoft Points.Thanks for posting this Chris.

Your Friend,
Michael P

summd16

January 3rd, 2008
at 10:23pm

That is so cool. Unluckily I haven’t redeemed my subscription for Xbox Live since around November of 2006 probably since my Xbox 360 is starting to collect some dust since I’m not really enjoying it that much. But this is really cool. If I still did have service I would probably get Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Arcade Game because I enjoyed playing the demo I downloaded back when I had gold membership and my older brother loved playing that game when he was a kid in the 80s so I would most likely get that. Well thanks for blogging this and informing us on this.

Gamertag: summd1407

summd16

January 3rd, 2008
at 10:59pm

For some reason your blog deleted my last comment. I spent some time on it and don’t really understand why it would do that. But anyways I’ll just put in the end of it. I think this is a great idea by microsoft and and I would probably spend it on TMNT the arcade game. I’m just wondering why this would happen.

summd16

January 3rd, 2008
at 11:36pm

Oh nevermind. Sorry

Xbox blogosphere news

January 4th, 2008
at 3:57am

period, we will be offering all of our Xbox LIVE members around the world access to a full Xbox LIVE Arcade game that will be available to download free of charge. In the coming weeks we will be sharing the specific details of this offer with you.”chris.pirillo.com

Xbox Overdose

January 4th, 2008
at 5:19am

to download free of charge. In the coming weeks we will be sharing the specific details of this offer with you. Thank you again for helping make Xbox LIVE everything that it is today! Sincerely, Marc Whitten General Manager, Xbox LIVE Link:Get a Free Xbox Live Game

misterhijinx

January 4th, 2008
at 7:31am

I one am a Xbox Live gold member and have been since the start of Xbox and Live. I am glad to see MS/Xbox stepping up and doing something for their subscribers although I didnt think they would do anything but apologize. I have called Live support as well as my g/f in the recent week and received nothing but grief and attitude. Seems as if they treat most people that call like a kid that knows nothing about Xbox Live or they way it should be hooked up. I one was very dissapointed I couldnt play my new ROCKBAND over the holiday. Although it was hit and miss it was certainly frustrating. Thanks MS for stepping up.

phantomdata

January 4th, 2008
at 9:11am

Hmm. Awesome. Thanks for the update Chris!

Vincenzo

January 4th, 2008
at 6:51pm

I really hope it’s a choice situation for what game you get. I posted about this letter on my blog.
http://www.modifiedlogic.com/wordp2/archives/188

nifty

January 4th, 2008
at 10:23pm

Interesting that they think a free game will solve their problems. Better than ignoring the problems, but they should fix them regardless…

nifty-o-matic

January 4th, 2008
at 10:33pm

Got an Xbox 360? Get a FREE Game from Microsoft!…

Microsoft has decided that to make up for the poor performance of Xbox Live over the holiday season that they will give away a free game to Xbox 360 owners. Microsoft hasn’t announced yet what the game will be, but it will be coming from Xbox Liv…

FamousLastWordz

January 5th, 2008
at 12:23am

Nice THis is Gana Be Awsome Free AcadeGame!!!

Bigbore

January 5th, 2008
at 1:09pm

The game received will be fully at their discretion, I’m positive that the game will not be a top notch game you will play for hours, for this would be too nice of this corporation. The fact that their servers could not handle a new influx of subscribers is retarded. They are Microsoft, one of the most powerful company’s in the word. Must we enlist the help of GOD to get them to accomplish anything? There was a similar problem of supply and demand when the 360 was launched. The stores received less 360’s than they were told to preorder. Microsoft needs to get its **** together.

PoopMcWTF

January 7th, 2008
at 7:39pm

Is this out yet? Can i get the game now,and if i can how do i?

kaboose

January 24th, 2008
at 4:28pm

the game came out a few days ago, to download it, go to marketplace, then featured games. The game Undertow will be free of charge for the next week or so. Have fun!

dan

February 10th, 2008
at 2:23pm

Great to find out the actual details of the free game after the offer expired. I have been checking my live account every couple of days to see what it will be. M$ did an effective job of obscuring the details long enough to limit the number of downloads. I had to search the Net to find out what it was, after the fact.

Bummer, because I thought M$ was stepping up to the plate and making an effort to be good to their users. My mistake.