Summary
- Some Xbox users managed to pick up a copy of Alan Wake Remastered for free this week.
- The game’s price was reduced to free after players claimed the Alan Wake 2 trial that went live on Thursday.
- Turns out that was a mistake and the trial wasn’t supposed to get you a free copy of the first game’s remaster.
You might have seen a pretty great deal doing the rounds on social media over the past 24 hours involving Alan Wake 2 and receiving a free copy of the first game’s remaster just for downloading the sequel’s trial. You might also have discovered that when trying to cash in on the deal yourselves, it didn’t work. That’s because it seems Xbox giving away Alan Wake Remastered for free was an accident.
A free game bundled with a free trial is quite the steal, hence word of it it spreading like wildfire on social media as soon as people noticed it. It didn’t take long for it to be noticed either as people went to the Xbox Store to download the Alan Wake 2 free trial as soon as Xbox revealed it’s a part of its FreePlayDays this weekend. Someone noticed claiming the trial reduced the price of Alan Wake Remastered to free and then word began to spread.
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Remedy has frequently bundled Alan Wake Remastered with Alan Wake 2 for no additional cost. Smart marketing as anyone who wants to try the sequel but isn’t sure they should because they haven’t played the first game can get it and play it without having to spend anything extra. That deal has been available to anyone buying Alan Wake 2 on Xbox recently, and that’s where the free trial oversight comes in.
Alan Wake Remastered For Free Sounded Too Good To Be True
And Turns Out It Was
It seems that when people claimed the free trial of Alan Wake 2, their respective Xbox accounts were fooled into believing they own the game. That meant they could then head to the store page for Alan Wake Remastered and pick up the best-looking version of the game for nothing at all. While there was a belief it might have been intentional, reports that the loophole has quickly been pulled close suggest it was almost certainly a mistake.
That means, unfortunately, you can no longer claim Alan Wake Remastered for free after claiming Alan Wake 2’s free trial. You can presumably still get the first game for free if you buy its sequel though, so a silver lining for anyone who hasn’t played any Alan Wake but enjoys the three hours of the series they can still play for free this weekend.
The only thing that remains unclear is whether those who cashed in on the mistake before the shutter was slammed shut will be allowed to keep their free copies of Alan Wake Remastered. Usually, companies tend to reverse the transactions in situations like this, although with a game this old and a mistake that was corrected so quickly, I wouldn’t be surprised if Xbox lets this one slide.
Alan Wake Remastered
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October 5, 2021
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