xbox live

Tar.Aldarion

If you use your free two month subscription to xbox live, is there possibly a way to get on without having a credit card? They try to subscribe you afterwards and we can't get on to see is it worth getting.

kensutz

Eh?

Tar.Aldarion

Ok, you buy an xbox, you get two months of xbox live with it for free. You enter the code. It asks you for a credit card afterwards to let you continue. Can you get around this?

ntlbell

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Ok, you buy an xbox, you get two months of xbox live with it for free. You enter the code. It asks you for a credit card afterwards to let you continue. Can you get around this?

nop

Tar.Aldarion

Ok thanks, that's a crappy free trial

Ciaran500

I'm still not definate what you mean but you don't need to put a CC in to get your free trial and to continue on live you can pay by CC or buy cards instore.

Tar.Aldarion

It does ask us for a valid cc, I'll try again, thought it was weird that we could not do a trial without a cc.

Ciaran500

I used the free trial and wasn't asked for a CC.

ntlbell

Ciaran500 wrote:

I used the free trial and wasn't asked for a CC.

I'm pretty sure you have to enter one I did.

I think there's also on xbox.com the reason to why.

I could be wrong.

mcgovern

Ciaran500 wrote:

I used the free trial and wasn't asked for a CC.

Same here but that was not long after launch.

Truther

If you don't want to use credit card you can buy xbox live codes in any game store.

lee_baby_simms

I'm 100% sure theres a 'redeem code' option.

Tar.Aldarion

What's a redeem code?
Also, we are trying to use one of our many free trial codes to se is it worth buying a code from the store. Will they not just ask for a cc then too?

mcgovern

The redeem code button is in the bottom right corner of the Marketplace blade if I remember correctly.
I can't remember what way the 1 month free trial works, but most of the free trials (1 day etc) and the actual 3 month, 6 month and 12 month cards you can buy, just have a code you enter here which upgrades your account.

Vegeta

I thought if you created a new gamertag that you got a month free, no questions asked.

Has this changed, if not it could be a work around.

Tar the only real difference is the ability to play online. Which is implemented pretty well in most games.

So if you don't want to play other folk online then don't bother with it.

Burning Eclipse

I regularly set up new accounts, be they American, Japanese, hell, even Korean. Also, some Irish ones (so friends can play online with me). They always get a month free! Select silver membership and the next screen will prompt you with the info that you're eligible for gold membership for a month! Simple as.:p

Tar.Aldarion

Yeah, I want to kill people in halo, tired of beating housemates 15-3 hehe
Just want to see for free if our connection will make it work well.
Pes would be nice online too.
Are people ranked?

I regularly set up new accounts, be they American, Japanese, hell, even Korean. Also, some Irish ones (so friends can play online with me). They always get a month free! Select silver membership and the next screen will prompt you with the info that you're eligible for gold membership for a month! Simple as.

But do you not need a code to get on to live in the first place? We can see no way to get by entering a cc.

koneko

I get the feeling Tar is talking about Xbox (original), and the rest of ye are talking about 360. Maybe not.

With the 360 when you start a new account it automatically has 1 month gold for free, you don't have to enter any CC details. With Xbox, I think it might be a bit more complicated, it's been so long, I don't remember exactly.

Tar.Aldarion

Yeah just a normal cheap ass xbox

brav

ya with xbox 1 you need a credit card, on 360 you get 1 month free when you create a new account

Burning Eclipse

koneko wrote:

I get the feeling Tar is talking about Xbox (original), and the rest of ye are talking about 360. Maybe not.

With the 360 when you start a new account it automatically has 1 month gold for free, you don't have to enter any CC details. With Xbox, I think it might be a bit more complicated, it's been so long, I don't remember exactly.

Koneko are teh smrt!

Ya, that explains it all really!

koneko

I thought so. Damn muppets, assuming and all that

I think with Xbox (original) you do have to enter a CC. I used a Live Starter pack at the time, but I remember getting charged on my CC at one point so I did have to enter it.

Tar.Aldarion

Ah well, thanks.