Why I need to set up payment option to download free games with gold?

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  1. RetiGergo
    RetiGergo Guest

    Why I need to set up payment option to download free games with gold?


    Hello,

    Why I need to set up payment option to download free monthly Games with Gold via XBOX Live website? On XBOX 360 you can download these games without payment option.

    Thanks.

    :)
     
    RetiGergo, Jul 28, 2018
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  2. Ekgflatliner
    Ekgflatliner Guest
    Free demo can't be downloaded due to "You have no valid payment options on file"

    Why can't we download free content without a payment option? This makes absolutely no sense. I am on a pc trying to download a demo to my Xbox 360 but can't download free content because I don't have payment options set up? Why are any payment options necessary
    at all, and why would it check to download free content?

    I see threads going back to 2013 and further where this was happening, how can this still be an issue?
     
    Ekgflatliner, Jul 28, 2018
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  3. Stormeve
    Stormeve Guest
    Can't download Forza Horizon as a Xbox Live Gold member?

    I'm currently attempting to download Forza Horizon for free since I am a gold member. However, whenever I try to download the game, it wants me to add a valid payment option.

    I went ahead and checked on the Microsoft website, and I still have PayPal as my payment option. What's up with that? Why can't I use PayPal as a "valid payment option" for
    free Xbox 360 games?

    It works fine for Xbox One games in Games with Gold. I downloaded Earthlock about a few minutes ago with no problems.
     
    Stormeve, Jul 28, 2018
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  4. brandiesel1
    brandiesel1 Guest

    Why I need to set up payment option to download free games with gold?

    On Xbox 360 if you stop paying for gold, you can still play those games. On Xbox One you cannot keep playing them. While there hasn’t been an official reason given (not that I know if anyway) it’s probably to entice people to pay for gold if they want to
    keep playing them since they already have a card attached to their account.
     
    brandiesel1, Jul 28, 2018
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  5. brandiesel1 Win User

    Why I need to set up payment option to download free games with gold?

    On Xbox 360 if you stop paying for gold, you can still play those games. On Xbox One you cannot keep playing them. While there hasn’t been an official reason given (not that I know if anyway) it’s probably to entice people to pay for gold if they want to
    keep playing them since they already have a card attached to their account.
  6. ngocphi Win User

    Free game

    you need a valid payment option to get the free games with gold for Xbox 360

    Plus an adult acount

    For on the console you need to click get price

    But for 360 games either a valid payment option or a Xbox 360 console is needed to download without a payment option or a Adult acount
  7. kev edin Win User

    Asked to change payment method when trying to download 360 games in Gold on an XBox one

    I dont store my credit details on Microsoft.not after I got ripped off. I can downloaded free games and games with gold for xbox one . It's just the 360 free games you need to have a payment set up . Surely it should know your subscribed to gold .
  8. Smwutches Win User

    Want to download Assassin's Creed Revelations free, but i can't

    You would need a credit card/Paypal on file in order to download the 360 games with gold games, even though they're free. The 360 store is set up differently from the store on the One. The One does not see your Microsoft account balance as a valid payment
    option for 360 content.
  9. WPAK Win User

    Não consigo comprar jogos de Xbox 360 / I' can't buy Xbox 360 games

    Hi there,

    to download/purchase the Games with Gold you will need a Gold subscription on your account (The account used in the forums doesn't show as Gold) and for 360 games you will also need a valid payment option on your account.

    Eventhough the games are free as far as I know it will be used as a verification step to get the games (for free)
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