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Xbox One 'Weekend Fun' Promo - First 100 w/ 1 hour play gets Free $10 Credit + 1 Month Live Gold. (Gold Req)

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Xbox One 'Weekend Fun' Promo - First 100 w/ 1 hour play gets Free $10 Credit + 1 Month Live Gold. (Gold Req)
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silverrat23 on 30/01/2015 - 11:57 xbox.com (208 clicks)
Last edited 30/01/2015 - 12:04

Main key points:

  • First 100 Players to play the selected game (see below) for 1 hour from each Friday 6am (local time) receives free 1 month Xbox Gold Subscription + $10 credit.
  • Xbox One, Xbox Gold subscription and selected game required
  • Long running offer - from 30 January to 19 April
  • Game changes every weekend. Always starts on Fridays from 6am local time.
  • Offer is not available in US and UK, meaning less competition to be the first 100. :)
  • Offer available in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India, Taiwan, Korea and Singapore.
  • Gold Subscription must be active till 30 June.

List of selected games: game and (date)

  • Sunset Overdrive (30 Jan)
  • Forza Horizon 2 (6 Feb)
  • Assassin's Creed Unity (13 Feb)
  • NBA 2K15 (20 Feb)
  • CoD Advanced Warfare (27 Feb)
  • Fifa 15 (6 Mar)
  • Minecraft (13 Mar)
  • Evolve (20 Mar)
  • Battlefield: Hardline (27 Mar)
  • GTAV (3 Apr)
  • Halo Master Chief Collection (10 Apr)
  • Ten Play App [FREE] (17 Apr)
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  • Lirrik on 30/01/2015 - 12:01

    Second game is Forza Horizon 2.

    • silverrat23 on 30/01/2015 - 12:06

      I think adblock blocked the panel.

      Fixed, thanks!

  • ilikeradiohead on 30/01/2015 - 12:26

    Hmmm… 6am local time. Not really an issue for HK, SG, KOR, TW, NZ and IND, but what about Australia? 6am in Sydney is three hours before 6am in Perth?

    • Elijha on 30/01/2015 - 12:37

      so that would be different local times then ?

      • daerka on 30/01/2015 - 12:47
        +1

        6am WA.
        7:30am NT.
        8am QLD.
        8:30am SA.
        9am VIC, NSW, TAS, ACT.

        If I got that daylight savings business right, and that part of an hour nonsense.

    • daerka on 30/01/2015 - 12:37

      Actually, looks like it's more local to Perth than Sydney. lol

      It's GMT+8 for Australia.

  • daerka on 30/01/2015 - 12:27
    +2

    I don't get it. If it's the first 100, and they're only giving away 100, how on earth does that work with different time zones? Surely, by the time it starts for me (local time) there'll be more than 100 who've already played for an hour???

    Edit: Oh, GMT+8. Just read the terms. What idi… I mean who on earth turned that into "local time"?

    • ilikeradiohead on 30/01/2015 - 13:41

      It might be because, for example, India is on +5.5GMT, and NZ is +12GMT, so they just wrote one paragraph for all seven countries.

  • Zylam Marex on 30/01/2015 - 13:15

    LOL I'm still confused, when does it start for Sydney?

  • brent3000 on 30/01/2015 - 13:20
    +1

    Darn, if only it was abit earlier, im normally up from 4am onwards before I head off to work :( Could have fit it in during 4-5am :(

  • Cap N on 30/01/2015 - 13:53

    I found the defn of local time here
    http://www.xbox.com/en-AU/weekendfun/terms

    I guess it's GMT + 8 because we are contracted to their Singapore office, and Singapore is GMT + 8.

    Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India, and Singapore all contract to Singapore and I presume all have to have the same time.

    Which means it should be 9am start for us (ie Syd and Mel).

    • SirFlibbled on 30/01/2015 - 14:29
      +2

      So the adults who work full time miss out…

      Guess I'll just ignore this 'competition' then.

      YOu have to wonder why they didn't make it Saturdays.

    • Linkwick on 30/01/2015 - 15:56

      Could be worse - India's at GMT +5.5, so 3:30am!! How 3:30am on a Friday morning is a "weekend" is beyond me!! :-p

    • Benji on 31/01/2015 - 09:24

      I don't think that's correct. Every regions terms and conditions list the start as 6 AM GMT + 8 and the end as on the 19th at 23:59 GMT + 8. I'm guessing that's when the competition initially started, not what local time means.

      There's no way 6 AM local time is code for "6 AM in Perth, no matter where you live".

  • Linkwick on 30/01/2015 - 15:38
    +1

    Since when does a weekend start on a Friday morning? Why couldn't they do it on a Sat morning?!
    Not being a student or on holidays, & with the comp starting at 9am locally for me, there's probably Buckley's that I'll be in the first 100.

    • daerka on 30/01/2015 - 16:53

      6pm would have made more sense. Not sure how they're going to do this anyway, as I'm sure there'll still be way more than 100 who hit 1 hour of playtime at 7am sharp. So what if a thousand hit 1 hour play at the same time? Who gets the 100 prizes?

      • spiev on 30/01/2015 - 21:25

        Yeah this is too vague, seems completely dependent on luck… you'd have the game running before it hits the start time, you keep it on for the following hour - there'd be thousands of people with the exact same finish time (exactly one hour after start).

  • Nitr0 on 30/01/2015 - 23:12

    I hope this means HaloMCC will be fixed by April 10th. Can't wait!

  • daerka on 06/02/2015 - 10:17
    +1

    Did anyone give this a shot? I just played Horizon 2 for the hour, let's see what happens. Surely I was first, with like I don't know how many thousands probably. lol

    • stowie on 19/02/2015 - 09:57

      So how was your luck… in the first 100?

      • daerka on 19/02/2015 - 10:23
        +1

        Well, I haven't heard anything yet. Though I believe it said something about two weeks for getting your notification after the event, so there's still a tiny bit of hope. lol

        • stowie on 20/02/2015 - 09:23
          +1

          I'll cross my fingers for ya haha, thanks for the reply.

        • daerka on 20/02/2015 - 11:22

          @stowie: Ugh! I did not see this…

          "To receive the prize tokens by email, you need to opt-in to our Xbox communications.

          Please visit https://live.xbox.com/en-AU/MyXbox/ContactPreferences to opt-in and receive exciting information!"

          …until just now. So if I was in the first 100, but did not have this enabled, I would not get my prizes? Nice to not even mention that in the T&C!

          Edit: Guess this means I'll never know whether I actually won this or not. :(

  • daerka on 20/02/2015 - 12:11
    +1

    Just received confirmation, everyone who was or still is taking part in this, you MUST be opted in to Xbox communications, or you will not receive anything, even if you are amongst the winners!!!

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