Xbox Live Gold Free Weekend 9-17-10 to 9-20-10
August 31st, 2010
Microsoft has announced an upcoming Xbox Live Gold free weekend.
Itching to dive into the definitive new multiplayer experience in “Halo®: Reach?” Following launch on September 14, Xbox LIVE Silver members can enjoy exclusive Gold-only features for a limited time. From September 17 (12:00 pm ET / 9:00 am PT) through September 20 (12:00 pm ET / 9:00 am PT) Xbox LIVE Silver members can take advantage of industry-leading multiplayer, not to mention exclusive access to movies, TV shows, music and friends via Netflix, Zune video, Last.fm, Facebook and more. These Gold-only features will be available all weekend long for the whole Xbox LIVE community.
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Hello! I have a problem with this Weekend. I live in Hungary, but my Xbox was registreted to England. I see this advertisment, that 3 day Gold Membership, and i want to enjoy, but i don’t know, how to activate. Please give me a little help, sorry for my bad english…
Bence,
You never have to do anything to enjoy Free Live weekends. If you have an Xbox Live Silver account just try and play a multiplayer match. If the servers allow you to play then you are good if they don’t then maybe Microsoft is preventing your country from participating. Good luck and hope you get to play.
hello i’m french i cant connect on xbox live gold but i have a xbox live silver and i cant connect but the time is past
what i do
sorry for my bad english
Do you have to play reach on this weekend? or could you play like MW2 or something? because its not working for me
its after 12 but i still cant do anything or play mutiplayer matches
I have a silver account I can check this with. I’ll update as soon as I verify it is active, probably in a few hours. Again, Microsoft did not sate that this was U.S. only so hopefully it works in all territories.
Sean, You should be able to play anything. They only thing I am not is included is Xbox Live Deal of the Week sales. Everything else should be available to all this weekend.
Do u have to own halo reach in order to get the free xbox live gold
My understanding is no. This is a free gold weekend because of Halo Reach but Silver members can play any game they want.
2:34pm and i just tried playing halo reach online and it doesn’t work im in the states so not sure whats up.
Yeah, its 3:38pm in ohio, I still cannot connect to free gold weekend. I have no idea why? But if someone could fill me in on the issue that would be great:)
Thanks for reading.
Yo. I’m in the USA and I’m trying to do this free gold weekend thing. I tried to access the account thing from the front XMB and nothing happened it just wanted me to pay for gold. I tried to go to account management and still nothing. So I just did like you said and tried to just play matchmaking. Still nothing. I don’t have permission to play on Xbox Live.
Hey Guys,
It looks like Microsoft messed this up. Somehow they didn’t flip the switch right. I’m also in the United States and my silver profile can’t access gold features.
F.Y.I. A real easy way to check if it’s working is to try and create or join a party. Only gold members can create or join parties.
I’ll update the post whenever I learn that this promotion is working.
xD; I’d make a joke about all the 12 year olds pissing their pants and squealing in anger due to not being able to play Reach Matchmaking, but considering I don’t currently have Gold due to financial stresses, and I had barely enough to get Reach, I’d say I’m in the same boat. Minus the ear-sodomy voice.
Currently it’s 12:30 PM PST (GMT -08:00) and nothing yet. Do you know if it’s required to re-sign in or not for the free gold weekend to activate?
I’ve even made a brand spanking new account instead of trying my Silver accounts. It still doesn’t work, there doesn’t seem to be an option to turn your Gold on, and it seems you’re always stuck in Silver. Even tried to just ignore the Silver tag and start a match. Also for the record. I’m scrolling the XMB and it seems the promotion for free gold weekend is missing. ^_^
I don’t think you have to log back in and out. That is usually only when you enter a code.
In the past Microsoft has flipped a switch in the code and the Gold check is not done anymore. No need for users to do anything.
Hopefully they add more hours Monday to make up for their mistake.
Just got gold and made a party. Guess that means it worked?
Zane, you paid for gold or got gold features like making a party?
hey guys i got it to work by going into my xbox network settings and retesting my xbox live connection by doing the test network. Cheers.
I just verified it’s working in the United States. Please try it without logging in and out to confirm if that is required and post back if possible.
Sorry, I long since stopped waiting. Didn’t want to waste my time in front of the XBOX doing nothing particularly interesting while there were caves to be explored in Minecraft.
My excuse for not playing the Reach campaign? I beat it already. (On normal. Shut up. xD; Legendary will be next.)
I can get Last FM to work, but I’m really wanting to try Netflix and all that gives me is a message to “sign in to an existing gold account” or upgrade to gold. Can’t get past that.
ok duders if u havent got it yet this is the best i can say. so ive tried everything signing out then in, new profile, or anything else that has been mentioned in above posts. so i used my exsisting profile and saw i only have silver account, okay…. so what the hey ill pop in halo 3 and try to play online… oops wont let me play ranked matches…. ill try social and whammmmy im in matchmaking and playing online all i want too. so then i throw in modern warefare 2 to try.. and kablaammm playing all online game modes as if i had a gold account, all the whislt the main screen says im a silver member.
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If you purchased Halo Reach earlier this week when it was released to the public and you’re an Xbox Live Silver user right now then your going to love this offer.
Enjoy free Xbox Live Gold Membership benefits from 17 to 19 September thanks to Microsoft who wants to allow you to experience all that Halo Reach offers in multi-player gaming.
what other weeks will this happen on.
also i was playing campaign and i got experience then halfway through i stopped getting xp what happened.
and what other weeks will this happen on