http://m.imgur.com/hyLj8kL?r just found this on reddit?

Yeah I didn't find out until it said they'd try to push it to my xbox one. Wait a minute I have a PS4 lol

A good deal though :smiley:

In case it isn't obvious, this is for xbox one, not windows

Waste of space for three days. Microsoft has done very poorly in advertising the expiry on the purchase page. Good as a try before you buy but that is how drug dealers sell heroin.

Yeah this kinda sucks that it's only 3 days. No way can I complete these in the spare couple hours I have.

I don't normally search the store for stuff but just noticed it...

You have misunderstood the deal.

dont own an xbox yet but grabbed this :smile:

saw this on their FB Page borderlands page it's free play days

I get the feeling this has been voted so hot because most people have misunderstood that it's only free for three days. It's not that good.

Looking forward to coming back to this post on Monday :smiley: Have a nice weekend people.

Strange that Gearbox would enter into an agreement with Microsoft on this. I mean, it isn't like they've got a recently released FPS MOBA sitting around that could use an injection of players is it???

Saw on Xbox uk facebook it is free to play this weekend only. Just a heads up.

Free is good :smile:

The play anywhere games are microsoft exclusives only

Might be worth adding to your account though as they are doing a few cross platform purchases

I noticed this last night, I was looking at what games I had that I could download ( I knew I had borderlands 1 to download because it was free a few months back and back compat) and then I noticed borderlands 2 which I bought a few years back but didn't think it was back compat and then I noticed the pre sequal, wasn't sure what was going on, I installed them anyway just to see if it was a free weekend or not

£18 for me also.

​More of the same, less fun I thought and genuinely unfunny, jacks a good character though. Borderlands 1 is the best, great enviroment and story.

Started playing Pre Sequel yesterday and, what a load of balls. Need to try Borderlands 2, hopefully that's a better game??

Don't assume everyone is up-to-date with the latest video game news. I was at work all day yesterday and saw a game being downloaded for free, sorry for being hopeful :smiley:

Oh I get that and those posts are understandable but there persists a number of people hopeful that somehow a screw up has coincided with a free weekend.

Most of the posts in this thread were made before there was any comment from MS, 2K or Gearbox

This whole thread is hilarious - why do people think it's a glitch or being given away for free by accident when it's been confirmed by Microsoft, 2K and Gearbox? No matter what the format of the download was all licenses will be revoked on Monday without any doubt.

They give away 1month live all of the time. I got given one because I mentioned it was my birthday so if you feel like you aren't getting anywhere pursue for the month.

still works via us store

Can only go by what's written. Can't know in advance that they were wrong. And you're way, way too late with that kind of criticism.

If you downloaded it then you are an xbox live member, maybe not a gold member an xbox live member

I totally agree. Mine is a 24GB download, and I am playing the "Story Mode". I could see the advertisement from Xbox, but they say it's a Xbox Live Members offer (which I'm not) and it's only multiplayer. Could be wrong, but for me, it is (or was) a glitch

Took a screen grab saying "I own this" and will attempt to argue that no where does it mention about the game being a temporary pass. Downloading 35gb for a couple of days access to a gameis ridiculous in my opinion.

It does not mention anywhere that this is a temporary pass. For those willing to hassle microsoft customer services it might be honoured. But I wouldn't bet my house on it

You are correct sir, its just free for weekend.

Not showing in my microsoft account purchases or on the xbox website "my games" page. Looks like this Unlock Bundle is merely the free plays days unlock pass which will expire on 30th October.

This is free for life.


NOT :smiley:

Hahaha

There may be a free weekend coming for this but I dont believe this is it the format is all wrong I think they have ment to make a free trial but ended up making it free to purchase

Its 100% a free weekend only, happens all the time with alot of games before, your not have game after weeking, period.

So, its not free on xbox anyway, at least you have it on steam forever, not just a few days.

Damn. I think i bought this on steam already

It's a freebie not a deal. HUKD really needs to replace that "Get Deal" button to "Get Freebie."

Some people seem to be **** because it's not a freebie to keep but for a few days. Come on, if this had been a glitch by Microsoft they'd remove the game from your account.

It's free so don't complain about it.

Does this mean we can play FIFA and battlefield too if we don't own them?

Downloaded and playing now. Heat added and thanks for the heads-up on this one :smiley:

That's my problem right there. HDUK is rubbish, HUKD is better.

boo was so excited, but basically another free weekend. better than nothing

LOL No

I am not sure if someone can confirm, maybe it *was* a glitch. I got it as soon as the deal was released, and apparently my xbox is downloading 23gb of game, doesn't look like a free weekend.

Be better if you read the post on HUKD:)

will this work on xbox 360 too?

Not free at all, you get for a few days.

Ordered, started to download. Realised it is for Xbox not PC....Don't own an Xbox...
Lesson one: Read the posts on HDUK
numpty (but still hot)

Not a deal, should be taken down

Great! Works fine for me :smirk:

Lame.

Free for the weekend only. Link
Also confirmed by 2K.

Finished all Borderlands games on steam and PS3. Don't own XB1.Doesn't matter it's free permanently or free for weekend, it only take me a minute to sign in on my hotmail account and register the game to my account.

technically, we did purchase it (for free)

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/27/microsoft-gives-away-borderlands-for-free-maybe-by-accident?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=fb_a-technology_b-gdntech#link_time=1477578104

Worth a read....

Wait, you actually dont own this permanently, just until the 30th?

Got it earlier not gonna play it until after the weekend tho will do my nut if I have to pay to play it after the weekend. Plus I don't wanna have a game I can't get all the achievements on

Free multiplayer weekend for all members with free access to Borderlands from 27th to 30th October. Unless purchased, the game will become unavailable from Monday :wink:

It's a free gold weekend where you can play borderlands free for 3 days

https://majornelson.com/2016/10/27/multiplayer-all-access-event-borderlands-the-handsome-collection-free-from-27-30-october-on-xbox/

Free for Gold? I've not had Gold for over 4 years & i was able to "buy" it for free.

Your welcome!

That's helpful. Thanks

Bless

All you guys make me laugh, this aint free, Microsoft do this all the time, its just free to play for a few days, period.

Same for me
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If it was a mistake it looks like its been fixed now,

Confirmed as properly free. Not limited time. As noted by an update on kotaku

Its on the guardian now...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/27/microsoft-gives-away-borderlands-for-free-maybe-by-accident

Exactly, why would they include this 'unlock' if its in everyones library anyway?

I'd have cried if I had paid money for sunset overdrive.

Meh, thought it was too good to be true for console owners.

You are missing the point in that this appeared for free on the Store for several hours before any explanation. That is why people thought it would be free to keep, it was offered for free with no explanation. It's clear now it is just a free weekend, it was not at all clear this morning.

In that case I won't bother downloading it as I'm not going to have time to play it this weekend...
Oh well.

awesome

heat!!

Was already in my to download section, not sure why!

Because Microsoft are promoting it as a free to play weekend.

Just got ace find

This is part of a free to play weekend, so isn't permanent, anyone who's downloaded it will lose the right to play it come Monday if you don't own it via monetary purchase. Not an actual deal.

Excellent - downloading now :smile:

Why not? I've had plenty of price glitches on xbox. Game of Thrones season pass for £4 was the best. A load of people who downloaded Sunset Overdrive for a free play wkend ended up with not having to pay for it.

Can't believe people think this is free to keep permanently...

It's just free for the weekend.

Xbox have already confirmed that its only a free weekend event, they have just put it up a little too early, you are not getting the full games, just a temp unlock of it (which is why the game is listed as an unlock bundle)

Just seen this on windows central. Just a free weekend
http://www.windowscentral.com/borderlands-handsome-collection-free-play-weekend-xbox-one

I'm playing it now and I got it free. I does say £18.00 on the Xbox Store. I got it on the Microsoft store online. I have spoken with 2 tech support people and they said I haven't been charged and it isn't a glitch. I don't know if I believe them though.

​I believe MadonnaProject was alluding to hiding it from Microsoft so that this doesn't get revoked. Not other hukd members. Although I believe it's only a free to play on the weekend anyway.

No i am not trying to shame anyone, i am suggesting your attitude of "i have got the deal now, quick hide it from anyone else" is a very poor way of viewing this site.

Haha are you trying to shame me for not posting deals? Well there's two reasons, when I first posted a deal it was taken down. Then I posted another and it was taken down. No mater how hard I tried I seemed to go foul of one posting rule or another. So I got dissuaded and gave up. Secondly you lot do such a good job of finding deals by the time I get to them they're already posted. I still sometimes get a message saying I have posted somewhere wrong or posted somewhere my post didn't belong so it's very discouraging.

Hence keeping my head low and enjoying the community. Not ashamed about anything whatsoever.

works great thanks

Yeah that is what this site is all about, getting a good deal for yourself and no-one else.

Edit - oh 3000 comments and 1 deal i see that is your idea of this site :wink:

It's been covered my most gaming media sites for a few hours, I doubt we're gonna make it any worse now :P

It is on too many sites already, a Google search shows a fair few highly popular sites listed it before or around the time this was first posted on HUKD.

Can I suggest something? Why don't we now shut our big mouths and not make this go viral or something? because if this IS a glitch and we can keep it corked maybe microsoft wouldn't revoke it.

????

nightmare

xbox

is this for the pc or the xbox?

Good spot.... Assuming it's not just a free play days.
Not that it really matters too much as I'm completely out of hard drive space so this is just going to sit dormant for a while!

Someone posted on Xbox One group on facebook. Might not be true and we are grabbing a freebie. Sorry for the misinform

Yup, microsoft do this all the time, free play weekends,

That's been free for a while. A lot of the 1st episodes of Telltale stuff is.

It also has minecraft story edition episode 1 for free as well

gotta be in it to win it :P lets give it a go

heat added

No problem, glad you got it! :smiley:

​Thanks but I managed to download it :smiley:

Anyone having issues. Go on the xbox.com site and although it says £18 once you click on it, the right hand side will say "FREE" and its called an unlock bundle.

thanks

Own it on disc, now lets me boot without the disc

Great!! Thanks!

if it isn't free (permanently) they really need to state this, I did buy this sometime back for £40 and worth every penny, but of course getting a second digital copy added to my account, well worth it (if only for co-op playing!)

Who's? Do you have a link? I can't see it on Xbox, 2K or the borderlands pages.

Got a link? Can't see it anywhere..

This is a free weekend game. Its on their facebook page.

thanks - worth a shot for 30 seconds work...

got mine too. reckon the license will be revoked tomorrow though

I'm guessing this is for keeps and not just a time trial/free weekend since it was a "purchase" via the store for $0.00 and not a direct download from the xbox one dashboard?

Here is the UK link for the free version (Borderlands: The Handsome Collection Unlock Bundle):
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/p/borderlands-the-handsome-collection-unlock-bundle/bvrk77xxgbwb
And here is the paid version at £18 (Borderlands: The Handsome Collection):
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/p/borderlands-the-handsome-collection/c4dqhrnn1zn5

It is not a US only deal, but two different listings on the store for the two versions

Both Borderlands 2 and pre sequel showing in my ready to install page when I turned on the console and when I go to store it says "you own this product" Thats never happened with free to play games for me before. not that fussed if I don't get to keep though as I have so many games to get through already

Mine came up as $0.00 so it could be a USA only deal and your Xbox defaults to the UK store. Which seems bizarre as Microsoft doesn't region lock your MS account so you can go between regions to your hearts content.

I'm sure this bundle will be removed as it's listed twice in the store and has not appeared on my account yet

https://account.xbox.com/en-GB/MyGames

Haven't got an xbox one just the xbox 360 atm worth the pun if I ever got one mind

Ordered. Reeks of free to play weekend, but I dare say we will see. Unable to download as not at home.

Xbox 360!? Eligible??

Heat Cracking Find :smiley:

Apart from the link which shows just borderlands 2 as free play days there has been no announcement by 2k or Microsoft about this

Has anyone downloaded this yet as I noticed on my digital collection it is not showing up

Nope. Just speculation methinks.

Has that been confirmed anywhere?

I ain't got Xbox One and I clicked to have it. Ya never know.

Just to clear things up, this edition is only for this weekend. It's A Free to Play weekend

They what, damn them *shakes fist up in the air*

wow... so happy!!!

Thats my guess too, grabbed it anyway.

Thanks! Downloading now. It will be interesting to see exactly what we get and how long for!

:man:

If I get £10 store credit out of this as was the case when they put up Fallout 4 for free and then revoked the licence I'll be happy! Probably not going to happen though.

Purchased and will wait and see if it's revoked before downloading.

Free for me but can't download now. Purchased though

Prob be another fallout 4 scenario and get revoked

Thanks for posting!

On behalf of myself and my group of friends on XB1, thank you! Needed a good game to play together. I really appreciate you posting this.

Nabbed it... Not sure what this Free Play Days is, but I've managed to "purchase" and I am not a Gold member. However, it is not showing under "My Games" on Xbox.com...

Store on the mobile app didn't show the bundle as free, but both titles separately, for me at least. Went via the website and the bundle appeared as free.

Your results may vary.

​Yeah thats what I done to get it

If you go on Xbox store and search for the unlock bundle, it's free there. But not the normal Handsome Collection

​Yeah thats what I noticed, managed to get it. No doubt be another backlog game for countless months

That is how it reads to me, but until they either correct the price or the weekend is over we probably won't know for certain. I have bought but might hold off downloading until I find out just to save the hard drive space.

I suppose we need to just wait and see with this, I hope it is a glitch and this is the unlock licence which has been put as free by mistake

​I am downloading it now on my xb1, i just searched for "border" on my xbox one store then i clicked on the first result on the left, then i clicked on "Borderlands the pre sequel" , then underneath the pre sequel "Borderlands: The Handsome Collection Unlock Bundle" was there and coming up as free. It's clearly just a waste of my hard drive space though and it's going to just be free for the weekend by the looks of the screenshot you posted a few minutes ago mate, gutted, though I had a nice little freebie :neutral_face:

Won't let me. Download

Its odd as I already bought this quite a while ago, but it still showed as a 'free purchase' for me rather than an 'already owned' on the website

Anyone actually playing this? I mean finished downloading and playing? Because I agree with what prynolfc says:
there are 2 versions, so what does 'unlock bundle' mean?

​that just says Borderlands 2 though haha this is so confusing :confused:

Nice find, price glitch no doubt as on the xb1 store it also show's as £18. :smiley:

HEAT.

http://m.imgur.com/hyLj8kL?r just found this on reddit?

Redd Hotttt Deal!! Nice!!

Is this free for keeps, or just free to play this weekend as I thought it was the latter?

I'm on my Xbox One and there are 2 versions of this! ...Version 1) = "Borderlands: The Handsome Collection" and it says was £44.99 now 59% off £18.00 6 days remaining. ...Version 2) = "Borderlands: The Handsome Collection ""UNLOCK BUNDLE"" FREE

What is the difference between those 2 versions? Is the free version with "Unlock Bundle" at the end not the full collection or something?

Thanks OP

Amazingly good deal, Thanks for posting OP

Says £18 for me, and im signed in and have gold. Can anyone confirm if its just free play?

Borderlands 1 hasn't been released for Xbox One, it's backwards compatible although not included in this bundle!

I wonder if we get to keep this :smiley:

Got it before Microsoft put a price on this!

cheers.

In case it isn't obvious, this is for xbox one, not windows

Yup its free, just checked my Xbox and both games are downloading now! Great find!

Struggled to get this using chrome but worked straight away in Internet Explorer. http://www.xbox.com/en-gb/Search?q=handsome+collection

Thanks. When I looked on the site it was £18, but following the link it was free.

Probably a free weekend started early. if it's a mistake Microsoft can easily revoke. Worth a punt though just in case.

Thanks, got me a copy.

Thankyou.. just downloading now. Nearly bought this the other day too!

Got it now but its the Unlock Bundle. Whats the difference?

Free for me, just got it

free for me!

Ok, Step 1, Click, Click. I now own this digitally.

Step 2, question why? Why is this suddenly just free!? not Games with Gold, no obvious promotion, just free. What's the plan 2K

Wow thanks!
Heat

Was just gonna post this seen it on r/xboxone. Might be a free weekend

Grabbed mine, heat added :smiley: