Same PSA applies to XBL's Games with Gold, btw (Gaming)

by Kermit , Raleigh, NC, Monday, May 08, 2017, 21:21 (2543 days ago) @ Korny

I've never used either website to download games... I just do it on the XBox dashboard. There is always a "games with gold" on the side that lists them all off for me. So basically I've never had a problem :D

The top left of the Crossbar on a PS4 is dedicated to PS+ (the free games, Plus exclusive deals, your free game library, etc...), but it doesn't list the PS3/Vita games that are crossbuy, which is my biggest complaint (if you pull up those games in the console store, they do show up as free, but they don't advertise that).

As far as the website goes, I just type "Free PS+ games" into google every month, and it's literally the first link. I just add all of the games to the cart at once, and check out. I don't know if that link auto-updates every month, but I've never bothered bookmarking it, since typing it on the address bar is just as fast.

Good tip. You still get that stupid loading page, though.

I just get a loading pop-up. I click confirm, and continue to put each game in the cart. Maybe it's extra annoying on a Mac?

Nope. Windoze. I'm talking about the loading pages you get just by trying to load in the store. The pop-up you get trying to log in doesn't even work half the time for me. I've given up and used the phone app.

The xbox.com experience is horrible today. A similar Games with Gold link takes you to the games. When I clicked on them, it prompted me to buy, which I thought was weird because I've already got the licenses. I noticed that as soon as I entered the Microsoft Store context, the site logged me out. Grrr.

Back when I'd try to get my GWG games, on top of everything, it would always prompt me to send for a verification code, in an attempt to get me to use Microsoft's two-step verification crap. The few times that I considered giving in, it always said that the service was unavailable. It became enough of a thousand cuts that I slowly stopped even checking the free games since odds are it was Pool Nation FX for the tenth month in a row (Xbone was usually unplugged, so I'd just build the library through the website)...

Yeah, I realize that in Kornyworld everything playstation is wonderful and everything Xbox is shit. I'll say it again--they both suck.