Unable to redeem Gears of War 1 gift code from Gears of War 4 preorder

Grimmsel · Oct 13, 2016

The original Gears of War for xbox 360 is still not buyable in the german xbox live store or as boxed versions at local dealers. Neither on xbox 360 nor on xbox one or on xbox.com webstore. But the game is downloadable on xbox one if i insert the disk version
on xbox one.

Not shure if the codes generally not redeemable in germany or the code I received is corrupt.

The original xbox 360 Version was never officially released because of the refused rating. The pegi version was set on index by BPjM, a german governmental agency for youth protection, because of depiction of violence within the game. This summer this indexing
was cancelled. The Ultimate Edition got a rating by German USK and is released in Germany on Xbox one and Windows 10, but not on Xbox 360.

Maybe I should ask german Microsoft support directly.

Miss Bijoux · Oct 14, 2016

Hey Grimmsel -

Thanks for posting. This is an issue that is currently being looked into. When we have an update we can share, we'll be sure to let you know.

Thanks for your patience!

BayCurve3881771 · Nov 2, 2018

I bought the gears of war 4 ultimate edition and it came with the codes for all 4 previous games, upon trying to redeem the codes only GoW 2 and judgement managed to be downloaded but 1 and 3 didn't. There was something wrong with the codes, I spoke to a
costumer service representative from Xbox for over an hour and a half and the only thing they could come up with is that there should something wrong with those codes for those 2 games. What I got after trying to redeem the codes were messages saying "Sorry,
an unexpected error had occurred. The error has been recorded and we will investigate. Please try to redeem your code later."

Brandon Sershion

I contacted NVidia twice already and have told me to contact Microsoft to check and see if it was successfully redeemed I think my main issue is that I had gears of war 4 preordered on my Xbox when i redeemed the Nivida code and cancelled my preorder on
gears of war 4 to ensure i wouldn't get charged for it

Henriqueghost45

on 13/10/2016 I got the game gears of war 4, and along with it comes the codes to access the previous games, but the code to gears of war 1 and 3 am unable to use, are not valid.

Grimmsel

Question: A "Gears of War 1" Code is attached to the Gears of War 4 boxed versions for the german market (The boxes with the gigantic red USK18 logos on the cover".

Why is Microsoft doing this, if the GoW 1 Code is not redeemable in Germany?

Loraine Mon

Hi,

To better assist you with your concern, may we ask if you have purchased or pre-ordered Gears of War 4?

If you purchase and redeem Gears of War 4 on Xbox One or Windows 10 between April 25, 2016, and December 31, 2016, or if you redeem a code for the game as part of a console bundle before December 31, 2016, you'll receive the following Xbox 360 backward-compatible
games:

Gears of War
Gears of War 2
Gears of War 3
Gears of War: Judgment

These codes are only playable on Xbox 360 or Xbox One.

For additional information about this promotion, you can check this link.

Regards.

Grimmsel

The original Gears of War for xbox 360 is still not buyable in the german xbox live store or as boxed versions at local dealers. Neither on xbox 360 nor on xbox one or on xbox.com webstore. But the game is downloadable on xbox one if i insert the disk version
on xbox one.

Not shure if the codes generally not redeemable in germany or the code I received is corrupt.

The original xbox 360 Version was never officially released because of the refused rating. The pegi version was set on index by BPjM, a german governmental agency for youth protection, because of depiction of violence within the game. This summer this indexing
was cancelled. The Ultimate Edition got a rating by German USK and is released in Germany on Xbox one and Windows 10, but not on Xbox 360.

Maybe I should ask german Microsoft support directly.

Unable to redeem Gears of War 1 gift code from Gears of War 4 preorder