Age of Empires III is currently going for 10c/10p on Games For Windows

[andrewducker]

Here.

You need to have a MS Live account (the same one that's used for an MSN chat account, or for XBox Live). In fact, it takes you through the XBox Live signup, which was slightly confusing. You'd think they'd streamline that, or at least put different branding on it.

But for 10p, who can complain?

Edit: And after setting up my account, I popped back to the page and it referred to me as "WailedNeptune7", and I thought something had gone drastically wrong with their login system. But no, it had just assigned me a random "Gamertag", and then started referring to me by that name. I know MS are shit with usability, but really, What The Fuck?

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[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

*shakes fist in anger* Last Wednesday apparently they had the same deal on Arkham Asylum, dammit, and I missed it.

-- Steve's debating whether or not to get AoEIII; he wasn't much interested in the series before, but it's hard to knock a retail-release game for 10¢.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

I bought it a while ago for me Sven and Hannah as we play AoE II so much... My review would suggest 10p is a fair price.

[matgb]

It gets worse. I go to create an ID, but it tells me my email address is already associated with an account, so I should type in my password.

I try multiple iterations of my generic throwaways I use for non commercial stuff, none work. So I go to reclaim my password. Which tells me my email address is not associated with an account.

Good job I know how to hack gmail addresses to look different.

FYI:

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

On the xbox live you can score a free month of Gold level membership by adding a new hotmail address then saying no to upgrading to Gold, so it gives you a free month!

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

Cost me less than 3p
I used M$ points which should equate to 8.5p, but we picked up the points at stupidly low prices

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pointer. I was wondering whether Microsoft games were available anywhere.

It's too bad Age of Empires I isn't available. I've been craving it for a while.