Anyone on the fence, I can't recommend these games enough. The first (already Backwards Compatible), hasn't aged as well, but 2 and 3 are still fantastic. They really were Bioware at their finest (I loved Star Wars KOTOR, but man does it feel old now).
First trailer for Mass Effect Andromeda was also released today, so now is as good as time as any to get caught up.
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oUkTuRkEyIII
7 Nov 168#17
All 3 are showing on my account. Must be EA Access as I have never bought any.
bandit17
8 Nov 163#59
Good job EA Access, November seems to the be best day of the year so far with all 3 Mass Effect games, Mirror's Edge Catalyst and UFC 2! :smiley:
Does anyone know how to download the me 2 and 3bpaid dlc for free on ea access? Bit annoyed as i own 2 and 3 discs but none of the paid dlc in ea access is showing up as free and i just wasted money to buy itvas title by op was a bit misleading or is it just me?
Wartonk
10 Nov 16#75
According to reddit
Ea acess
Has Mass Effect 1 with both DLCs
Mass Effect 2 Digital Deluxe (no main story DLC)
Mass Effect 3 Digital Deluxe (contains From Ashes DLC)
Which i dont get as from ashes is t in my download que
Looks like you'll still have to pay out a lot for all the extra DLC :disappointed:
Wartonk
10 Nov 16#74
Does anyone know how to download the me 2 and 3bpaid dlc for free on ea access? Bit annoyed as i own 2 and 3 discs but none of the paid dlc in ea access is showing up as free and i just wasted money to buy itvas title by op was a bit misleading or is it just me?
Snakeyes646
8 Nov 16#73
Absolutely, only bought the disc version of me2 by the time me3 came out I bought the trilogy on ps3
jaydeeuk1
8 Nov 16#67
CBA to play ME1 again, but can't wait to get stuck in to 2&3 as female shepard again.
Ordered it on PC a year or 2 ago, only to find there was no controller support (at the time) so didn't even bother installing.
voyager123 to jaydeeuk1
8 Nov 16#72
none for me
Yuzo
8 Nov 16#71
Slightly off topic but just got this collection on PC from mmoga for £6.31 :smiley:
WalkerboyUK
8 Nov 16#58
CEX have gone into full w****r mode again overnight.
Yesterday afternoon Mass Effect 3 on the 360 was being sold for £3.20
Following the announcement of backwards compatibility they have hiked it up to £10.
Snakeyes646 to WalkerboyUK
8 Nov 16#60
Well if the demands there, why not? seriously the BC is taking off big time so if you have games that you love on 360, get em now before they become BC & the price goes up! (mass effect games are still worth that amount btw!)
PaulLFC to WalkerboyUK
8 Nov 16#70
I was quite surprised I managed to pick up a copy of Blue Dragon from CEX yesterday for £6, and in good condition too. Game and Grainger Games had already hiked their prices to £10+.
PaulLFC
8 Nov 16#69
Are you sure you didn't buy it previously on 360? If you own it it'll show up. I don't, and no DLC was available for me as of last night.
shasnir
8 Nov 16#68
Great.
TylerDurdenUK
8 Nov 16#66
I got ME2 & 3 on disk ages ago in the hope they went BC, I have a code for EA Access, now seems the right time to use it, and maybe sell the disk copies
ajcroskery
8 Nov 16#65
They became backwards compatible 3 weeks after I finished playing the trilogy on my xbox 360... :confused:
Kingy1
8 Nov 16#62
Downloaded these last night from the vault.
I dont think DLC is available on EA Access for free as it says in the OP. Certainly wasn't showing for me last night
Snakeyes646 to Kingy1
8 Nov 16#64
Shows all dlc for me for 1/2 at least
slliw
8 Nov 16#63
im surprised that most people didn't keep the originals. I've got all 3 included an unwrapped collectors edition for ME3
WalkerboyUK
8 Nov 162#61
This is always the CEX argument for a price rise - supply/demand, yet they sit there with hundreds/thousands of copies of something they couldn't sell when it was the lower price (not ME specifically).
£10 for Mass Effect 3, on disc, when you can pay £20 for a year's EA Access subscription, which gets you all 3 Mass Effect games, plus a bucket load of other games...
Now tell me who has their pricing strategy right - EA or CEX?
bandit17
8 Nov 163#59
Good job EA Access, November seems to the be best day of the year so far with all 3 Mass Effect games, Mirror's Edge Catalyst and UFC 2! :smiley:
yogurt
8 Nov 16#57
mass effect 3 at cex now for £10 :-D
Jay ITFC
8 Nov 16#55
Any way to import saves for ME2/3?
voyager123 to Jay ITFC
8 Nov 16#56
if they have been saved to the cloud yes
6ixFoot1
7 Nov 16#54
That's great!
Captain HUKD
7 Nov 16#53
Thanks OP & EA Access - never played any of the series but will definitely give it a whirl at some point.
Illusionary
7 Nov 161#52
Yes, of course.
BuzzDuraband
7 Nov 162#51
mudstuff
7 Nov 16#50
Heat for the heads up, saw it as soon as posted and grabbed all 3 from Game before seeing that they'll be on ea access haha. Unshipped but game doesn't seem to allow me to cancel, have to message them tomorrow... Cheers anyway though op
byjimini
7 Nov 16#49
How bizarre that they don't show up (yet) in the EA Access app yet are available in the Ready To Install menu.
6ixFoot1
7 Nov 16#48
But can you play them on the Xbox One? The BC ones
scottz17
7 Nov 16#47
Can confirm that it's through EA Access as I've just installed it. The games were not showing as ready to install until after I'd got EA Access. Well worth the £3.99 to binge on Mass Effect for a month! Thanks OP! :smile:
voyager123
7 Nov 162#46
Thanks I should real!y pay more attention, with any luck tales of vespira if it hasn't already
Blue dragon with any luck as he already mentioned it was going to be BC
kaisah16
7 Nov 16#41
Haven't played #3 yet. Thanks for this :smiley:
pcgamer2014
7 Nov 16#36
Sorry for being daft but if I own the physical 230 copies of the ME games, do I get them free on Xbox One?
thanks!
ahayden80 to pcgamer2014
7 Nov 16#38
only if u have ea access at the moment
teddy1590 to pcgamer2014
7 Nov 16#40
If you put the disk in your Xbox One, it will download them. You need to keep the Disk in to play them, unless you have E.A Access.
ahayden80
7 Nov 16#39
but u can install them using your discs but the disc will need to be in to play
gemvis
7 Nov 161#31
Cant see price on them going up much if at all even now BC due to them being just put up on ea access personally the next biggie I reckon will be black ops 2 which surprised wasnt done last week.
oUkTuRkEyIII to gemvis
7 Nov 161#33
Phil Spencer tweeted this is going to be a good month for BC so fingers crossed. I could easily jump back into BOPSII
BuzzDuraband to gemvis
7 Nov 16#37
Xbox One's 3rd birthday on the 22nd. Spencer has been teasing something big for the BC catalogue.
ahayden80
7 Nov 16#35
yeah a couple of them are but the bigger expansions aren't apart from part 2 of 2 of citadel expansion which requires the first one to play
ahayden80
7 Nov 16#32
doesn't look as if the dlc for mass effect 3 is free as there is none ready to install after downloading the full game
My gold ran out the other month & I can still play 360 games from GWG on silver account
oUkTuRkEyIII to dance_with_the_reaper
7 Nov 16#30
I think you get to keep the 360 ones.
aseddon130
7 Nov 16#29
It must be EA Access related then, or if u own the DLC then it adds it to your account.
teddy1590
7 Nov 16#28
Ok, so changed the title to reflect that they're on EA access as that's the better deal. If that's not ok Mods, just change it back.
aseddon130
7 Nov 16#20
Someone without EA Access should check the store to make sure
BuzzDuraband to aseddon130
7 Nov 16#27
There's no pricing on the store for the last two. Numero uno, however is priced at £14.99.
aseddon130
7 Nov 161#25
Dunno if they fixed it with 360 but years ago you could keep any Xbox 360 game that was free with GwG even when u went to silver. I know Xbox One stops you from playing the Xbox One GwG games when you are silver but I don't believe Xbox 360 does.
teddy1590
7 Nov 16#24
Yeah, was thinking the same. Can't see E.A letting folk sign up for a month to grab all their 360 games forever.
BuzzDuraband
7 Nov 16#23
You know what mate, I could spin you a load of bull to save face, but I honestly don't have a clue :smile:
If I was to hazard a guess, I would assume, realistically that they would expire with the sub.
BuzzDuraband
7 Nov 162#19
Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a winner.
I can confirm (even though not purchasing them, I did that on the PS3) that ME1,2 & 3 are in my ready to install queue.
teddy1590 to BuzzDuraband
7 Nov 161#22
Buzz, do you know if 360 Access vault games are similar to 360 Games with Gold, in that if your subscription ends you keep them? I had a look around and couldn't find anything discussing it, and figured you are one of the HUKD go to game guys.
thedvdmonster
7 Nov 161#21
Heat for being vault games, never played one will have a spin.
oUkTuRkEyIII
7 Nov 168#17
All 3 are showing on my account. Must be EA Access as I have never bought any.
voyager123 to oUkTuRkEyIII
7 Nov 161#18
same here
K1LLER HORNET
7 Nov 161#16
YES!
Easily one of the best video game franchises ever made.
I don't think Andromeda will be as iconic.
scholesy27
7 Nov 16#14
sorry for asking a newbie question can you transfer the saves from your 360 to xbox one to continue the old save?
teddy1590 to scholesy27
7 Nov 16#15
Yeah. You need to upload your 360 save to the cloud, then download it on Xbox One.
aseddon130
7 Nov 16#11
The ea access app doesn't show them so I wonder, maybe it is because I own the DLC that it's triggered that I own them both?
ahayden80 to aseddon130
7 Nov 16#13
I hadn't bought anything of mass effect 2 and 3. definitely full games and free dlc so far as I can tell for mass effect 2
RadiantDuck
7 Nov 16#12
Literally the main reason I bought a xbox One was anticipation that these would get bc! Just enough time to play through before March!
ahayden80
7 Nov 161#10
yeah I'm pretty sure the first one is as well
ahayden80
7 Nov 162#7
must be on ea access as well as it has shown ready to install on mine
aseddon130 to ahayden80
7 Nov 161#8
I did wonder how I own them already, awesome!
rawdog1985 to ahayden80
7 Nov 16#9
Are all three on Ea Access? as I'm getting an X1 in a few weeks and if they are all on there it saves me buying them at retail.
Thanks in advance
Lothra
7 Nov 161#5
Mass Effect 3 is £3.99 on Music Magpie, also in the 3 for £10 which has other BC 360 games.
teddy1590 to Lothra
7 Nov 16#6
Cheers, added a link to the comment for 3.
voyager123
7 Nov 16#3
cheers for heads up, had them for awhile on the off chance, can see these shooting up in price now like most BC games
teddy1590 to voyager123
7 Nov 16#4
I posted this one as heads up, but to be honest, I'm not sure how big a price rise there will be. There were so many millions of copies out there that I can't see it getting to scarce. That said, Black Ops probably sold more copies than all 3 Mass Effects combined, and that had a massive price rise when it went BC, so who know.
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Opening post
Confirmation here.
Grab them before the inevitable BC price rise.
Anyone on the fence, I can't recommend these games enough. The first (already Backwards Compatible), hasn't aged as well, but 2 and 3 are still fantastic. They really were Bioware at their finest (I loved Star Wars KOTOR, but man does it feel old now).
First trailer for Mass Effect Andromeda was also released today, so now is as good as time as any to get caught up.
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Latest comments (76)
Ea acess
Has Mass Effect 1 with both DLCs
Mass Effect 2 Digital Deluxe (no main story DLC)
Mass Effect 3 Digital Deluxe (contains From Ashes DLC)
Which i dont get as from ashes is t in my download que
Looks like you'll still have to pay out a lot for all the extra DLC :disappointed:
Ordered it on PC a year or 2 ago, only to find there was no controller support (at the time) so didn't even bother installing.
Yesterday afternoon Mass Effect 3 on the 360 was being sold for £3.20
Following the announcement of backwards compatibility they have hiked it up to £10.
I dont think DLC is available on EA Access for free as it says in the OP. Certainly wasn't showing for me last night
£10 for Mass Effect 3, on disc, when you can pay £20 for a year's EA Access subscription, which gets you all 3 Mass Effect games, plus a bucket load of other games...
Now tell me who has their pricing strategy right - EA or CEX?
thanks!
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/Search?query=Mass%20effect%203
If I was to hazard a guess, I would assume, realistically that they would expire with the sub.
I can confirm (even though not purchasing them, I did that on the PS3) that ME1,2 & 3 are in my ready to install queue.
Easily one of the best video game franchises ever made.
I don't think Andromeda will be as iconic.
Thanks in advance
£3.99 @ Music Magpie (Credit to Lothra)