Xbox Live Marketplace was just recently made available on the Xbox Live website. Instead of having to browse, purchase, and queue the content on the Xbox 360 directly, you can find content and queue downloads to your 360 with a few clicks (and spend your points even quicker!) A probable unforeseen bonus for many (which will be fixed soon more than likely) is most people can now receive some limited content! There are many scenarios where a user could receive a special code for limited content; preorders and limited edition games often come with some extras. When you use these codes on the browser based version of Xbox Live Marketplace, it has been found that it takes you to a publicly available URL to purchase and queue the content! What does this mean for you? At this point, it seems a lot of content that has been recently removed from the marketplace (Left 4 Dead demo, recently removed for those who missed it) are still available, as well as other limited content such as Call of Duty 4 Picture pack, Gold Plated Lancer Assault Rifle for Gears of War 2, Bungie Day '07 content, and more being found as the day progresses. Several downloads were found that cost 99999 points as well (what a deal!) There is a group of people on SlickDeals who are gathering a list of this extra content as it is found.
List of removed content found so far, not available in all regions. If all else fails you can enjoy Banjo before its release date if you plan to buy it. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Prestige Icons Picture Pack Call of Duty: World at War CoD: World at War - Day 1 Tactical Edge CoD: World at War: - Collector’s Edition Tactical Edge Gears of War Gears of War - Gears of War Emergence Day Message from Cliffy B (720p) Gears of War - Emergence Day Theme Gears of War - Emergence Day Gamer Picture Gears of War 2 Gears of War 2 - Gold-Plated Lancer Assault Rifle Gears of War 2 - Gamestop Exclusive Theme Guitar Hero III Guitar Hero III: Dream On by Aerosmith Halo 3 Halo 3 - Bungie Day '08 Theme! Halo 3 - Bungie Day '08 Gamerpics Halo 3 - Bungie Day 2007 Theme Halo 3 - Bungie Day 2007 Picture Pack The Last Remnant The Last Remnant - March To War Set (Pre-order extras, 100 M$) Left For Dead Left For Dead - Demo Lost Odyssey Lost Odyssey - Double Bonus Pack Lumines Live! Lumines Live! - Heavenly Star Skin Lumines Live! - Breeze Skin Test Drive Unlimited Test Drive Unlimited - Pagani Zonda C12S Roadster + McLaren F1 Test Drive Unlimited - Lamborghini Gallardo Coupe Tom Clancy's EndWar Tom Clancy's End War - FirstWar Enlistment Pack Xbox Live ARCADE Games Banjo-Kazooie (1200pts) - Get it early, before release on 12/3/08 99999 MS Points Fable II - Limited Edition Content Gears of War 2 - Flashback Map Pack Gears of War 2 - Gold Plated Hammerburst Halo 3 - Exclusive Xbox 360 Halo 3 Special Edition Gamer Pics Halo 3 - Exclusive Xbox 360 Halo 3 Special Edition Theme Rock Band 2 - Bonus tracks
Well, thats nice. Anyone got 99999 Microsoft Points I can barrow! Lol. I need like 2 things! So I actually need 199998!
Not bad. Great for the people who use it alot. Last thing I bought from the market place was the new maps for call of duty 4.
I know what ya mean, I was disappointed the Gears of War 2 Gold Plated Hammerburst was listed at a stupid price. People who didn’t get the Limited edition can still get the Gold-Plated Lancer Assault Rifle for free though! Depending on the game you play there’s some rare stuff you can get which has long since been removed from the market place. Edit – Apparently this has been fixed now
Unfortunately I think you’re a bit late, by all accounts Microsoft blocked this little trick quite quick.
Microsoft STILL hasn't removed this one yet, its still available for download, STILL running at 99,999 Microsoft Points.