Halo The Master Chief Collection Digital Download

SO ,,, this will show why reading the small print is important.

See that scrolling text box, it has a LOT in it telling you what's included ...

BUT ... then this showed up ... check the 4th line from the bottom about the Halo 5 Beta

"Halo 5: Guardians Beta : GAME DISC REQUIRED"

eerrr.... okay, but DIGITAL downloads DON'T have a disc so how ???

Wee call to Xbox Customer Support Line 0800 587 1102

The guy on the other end of the line thought it was odd and not something they had noticed ... off he went... came back with the expected news

It's a typo for the digital version.

If you get the hard disc version then yes you WILL need your MC Collection disc to play the Halo 5 Beta and when you go to play it you will get a screen alert to make sure you have the disc in.

The DIGITAL version wont blink the alert.

Can you imagine if that wasn't the case tho ... you download your 45gig game and 20 gig update (apparently that is how big the game is) and go and play and get excited for the beta only to find out you cant cos you dont have a disc ... the 0800 number would meltdown ... the forums would crash !!!

But worry ye not ... and maybe there will be a small wording change on the dashboard in the next few days :D

Digital Download Gripe

Yes it has been a while since I wrote anything on here. Been busy with Teeny Dudes and my own Sproglets and general life stuff. 

BUT ... this digital download stuff is really getting on my goat, and today I REALLY need to say something about it.

SO...


Dear Xbox ... you want us to use the digital download thing right??? well here is an idea. make it worth our while. 

Today we see Rayman Legends digital download on the dashboard for £34.79

 https://store.xbox.com/en-GB/Xbox-One/Games/Rayman-Legends/b1613d47-2330-459a-a99f-4cc84a481db9 

but Asda have it for £27 for the hard copy disc

http://direct.asda.com/Rayman-Legends---Xbox-One/003734872,default,pd.html

SO... as a mother and a gamer, with 2 kids who game, and a husband who games ... and in these current times of austerity ... where the *bleep* do you think I'm gonna get this one from.???

One to two quid fine, that would be a minor grumble that would get a typically British quiet whinge while it made it's way down the phone lines ... but nearly £8 is far too much to be let away with that.

Look at the competitors prices ... charge a competitive price... and we WILL use the system

and xbox again

no...we were NOT going looking for another 1 point LMAO

but here's another cool one from a day or so later :)

and yup...another xbox score post

you know something...I don't think I need to explain,

so if you don't know,check the other xbox tagged posts LMAO

Xbox gamerscore again

xbox score again

yup...another one lol

he says he's going for 123456 next lmao

and 'Tedi score again

Okay...yeah...missed the 99999 and 100000, but these have been done legit and the only one ending in a 9 we had seemed to be bullet witchs 15 hours for 99 score...and we're not going to rubberband a controller overnight to do it LOL. Oh, and also getting the 1 point after (probably BWs Hell difficulty) was going to be hard too...especially when he's trying (unsuccessfully) to get some score on the board for the uk xbox.com forum challenge.

Eviltedi has done it again

Another "interesting" number to go with the earlier 44444, 55555, 66666, 77777, and 88888

eviltedi's gamerscore

About 2 years ago hubby accidentally got this score

So he had to even it up, got 55555 at one point...we took a pic but i cant find it at the moment. Anyways, after that we thought...hold on...all the 4s,all the 5s...lets see if we can work out all the 6s and...

Needless to say we were then on the hunt for another single point achievement and a couple of months or so later we got his score to this point

Can you guess what's coming next ?

YUP...after much more gaming the next milestone was getting close...searched through things to find a 1 or 6 point achievement...CLONING CLYDE !!! I got that one AGES ago and got the 200 points, but 'Tedi only had 79 points on it so far. In that game was a 16 pointer...but there was an 18 point that would unlock before it...thankfully tho there was a 12 pointer to "even" it back up

After much Frog Clyde jumping on that fecking Flushed Away level to get faster than the Par time the 18 blinked....went to cheat menu, switched on Mutant Clyde...16 blinked...connected 2nd contoller,opened up a versus game in split screen and the 12 point blinked...score at that point was 88828 !!! EEEEK much excitement...60 points was all that was needed. Back to Crackdown and Crackdown 2 and a couple more achievements.

I went shopping...needed some bits and bobs (got the chocolate cheese) came back home and he'd JUST unlocked the last one for....

WHHOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Now to look for a 99999 :-)