Xbox Live Marketplace: Oops! Some limited content for all

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Xbox Live Marketplace was just recently made available on the Xbox Live website. Instead of having to browse, purchase, and queue the content on the Xbox 360 directly, you can find content and queue downloads to your 360 with a few clicks (and spend your points even quicker!) A probable unforeseen bonus for many (which will be fixed soon more than likely) is most people can now receive some limited content!

There are many scenarios where a user could receive a special code for limited content; preorders and limited edition games often come with some extras. When you use these codes on the browser based version of Xbox Live Marketplace, it has been found that it takes you to a publicly available URL to purchase and queue the content! What does this mean for you? At this point, it seems a lot of content that has been recently removed from the marketplace (Left 4 Dead demo, recently removed for those who missed it) are still available, as well as other limited content such as Call of Duty 4 Picture pack, Gold Plated Lancer Assault Rifle for Gears of War 2, Bungie Day '07 content, and more being found as the day progresses. Several downloads were found that cost 99999 points as well (what a deal!) There is a group of people on SlickDeals who are gathering a list of this extra content as it is found.

(3 replies) #1 Code.Red on 22 Nov 2008 - 20:04

I'm a little behind the loop, but why was the L4D demo taken down? Was it just a limited time thing?

#1.1 Rappy on 22 Nov 2008 - 20:22

Yeah when the game was released it was removed, its weird usually they keep demos up but they did this on steam as well.

#1.2 +TCLN Ryster on 23 Nov 2008 - 01:28

Yeah, it's too bad. I never buy an Xbox 360 game without first trying out the demo. Guess I won't be buying this one.

#1.3 ozgeek on 23 Nov 2008 - 07:24

#2 Warboy on 22 Nov 2008 - 20:07

Awesome.

#3 QuietStorm21A on 22 Nov 2008 - 20:09

Just got gold lancer!

#4 Nestea_M@n on 22 Nov 2008 - 20:40

Damn, I keep getting the "Not available in your Region".

How the hell do I fix this. FYI from Canada

Neztea

#5 tsun on 22 Nov 2008 - 21:41

seems to be US only

#6 Browno on 22 Nov 2008 - 21:50

No it isnt tsun I did and im in the UK and it is ALL blocked now

(1 reply) #7 zoonyx on 23 Nov 2008 - 00:06

yes - because you are in the UK.

"Not available in this region"

#7.1 +Matthew™ on 23 Nov 2008 - 01:46

It appears that people in the UK can access it by changing the URL a bit

Look for the bit that says en-US and change it to en-GB

Well it worked for the Golden Lancer anyway

(3 replies) #8 +Matthew™ on 23 Nov 2008 - 00:08

Now what is the chance of the ban hammer coming down for people who do this?

#8.1 willdev on 23 Nov 2008 - 00:24

Not High, It's Microsofts responsibility.

If there's a loop hole in there service they shouldn't ban others for using the loop hole!

#8.2 Sauron Reaver on 23 Nov 2008 - 00:29

I can't see them going ban crazy. What about the people that, in the craze of the new release, innocently downloaded some of these "special" downloads.

How will they be able to separate the innocent from the not-so-innocent?

#8.3 +Matthew™ on 23 Nov 2008 - 01:45

Yeah, but surely there will be something in their terms of service that will stop you, if not, I'm gonna give it a whirl

#9 +Sam Symons Live on 23 Nov 2008 - 00:30

I can't get anything except for one CoD5 weapon...I managed to add the Lancer to my queue but when I went to download it on the Xbox it said it cannot download. Darn.

#10 stifler6478 on 23 Nov 2008 - 00:33

I got excited when they had a link to Banjo Kazooie, but alas, it wants me to pay 99999 MS Points for it

-Spenser

#11 brent3000 on 23 Nov 2008 - 07:39

i see a push for silverlight as well...... DOes look alot nicer with it though

(2 replies) #12 chAos972 on 23 Nov 2008 - 10:34

"That offer is not valid in your region."
"That offer is not valid in your region."
"That offer is not valid in your region."

Useless...

#12.1 +Smigit on 23 Nov 2008 - 10:35

For alot of it you can just create a US live account and get the content. Doesn't all work but I got a few US only items.

Infact I've had a US, UK and Korean account for some time in addition to my Australian one in order to take advantage of region specific offers.

#12.2 Avalanche on 23 Nov 2008 - 19:03

Got an US account and nothing works, get the same message.

(2 replies) #13 +Sam Symons Live on 24 Nov 2008 - 00:15

They fixed it and everything everybody got was taken away heh. Also all that content does work anywhere, you just have to get it the way it's meant to.

#13.1 BlackShadow on 24 Nov 2008 - 01:00

Still working for me

#13.2 SkyyPunk on 24 Nov 2008 - 04:06

BlackShadow said,

Same, all that I had queued is still there

#14 +Sam Symons Live on 24 Nov 2008 - 04:48

Hmm, strange. I read somewhere that everything had been fixed up. I was tricked!

#15 NeoFlix on 19 Dec 2008 - 20:17

its ok this is one of the ways that microsoft will try to milk you dry. they figure if enough peole liked these thngs then why not try to make a profit off of it. so prbably and possibly they will make a re release of these demos or add ons that are not currently available. Dont get me wrong i like micrsoft and xbox live...

#16 MLG_PURPLEMONK on 20 Dec 2008 - 21:00

yo man i tried to download the Left 4 Dead demo and it ****ing said "this offer is not valid in your region". Wtf can any 1 tell me wat region works?

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