Thanks for the post I have been meaning to get the expansions for a long time and 10 cents is a bargain.

I'll be checking this out when I get home from work.  If this is indicative of how Microsoft intends to compete with Steam, I'm happy to climb aboard.

I can confirm that this doesn't work for people outside of the United States.  As it seems, GWL doesn't work in it's new format for Australian's at all.

thanks for the notices, a real deal... wonder what the actual angle is because they must be paying more for the credit card use then what the price was.

Well I kind of understand. It's not like they're the first one to do this, but the system acts like it will take a Windows Live ID which I already had, as in actually say you can sign into it and get going, then it bumps you to an Xbox Live account which pushes you to a gamertag which then tells you to restart the client to log in again. Bah. I had to restart the client twice to get the game to download and install. My sister was about to kill me for getting her into it because she encountered problems too. I had to remind her it was a game for a dime.

Yeah, but for $.10, waiting a week really won't be that bad... quite lousy that some folks can't play immediately, though.  Not exactly the best introduction to their "new/relaunched/rebranded" service. 

I've often wondered why Microsoft can't get a halfway decent product going on the games for windows side of things.  They've had about a week long sale going on with the age of empires deal being the only exceptional deal to come out of it... their games RARELY go on any sort of sale which means the only reason before to use the client was if you had to install the client for some other game.  I think tying all of their services together is a great idea though, but frankly, they will get a great spike in adoption rate because of this sale, and then NO ONE at Microsoft will consider doing anything to actually encourage ANYONE to keep their client installed by way of sales, etc. 

Yeah, for 10 cents you can't really complain...I don't mind waiting.

Actually I think I got ripped off! I paid 9 pence plus 1 pence VAT, which works out as something like 16 cents.....that's like an extra 60%....outrageous!!  I do consider myself lucky though because it seems there's quite a few people in different countries that can't take up the offer.

I also read on other forums that people are just advising to install the game and then uninstall the client afterwards because it's not needed, so I'll probably do that when I get my key. Doesn't seem that intrusive though....doesn't even seem to run in the background....well there isn't an icon for it like Steam or Impulse on my tool bar and nothing showing on task manager.

I tried to get it.

THE DAILY DEAL HAS ENDED

Yay....I got my key!!

Ah man, you sux.  No one told me.

yeah - I think I stumbled across the deal on joystiq.com though I usually follow those sites.  Rediculously good deal. Oh, and from what I've read, I believe EVERYONE that could not get a CD key on day one got 1 today.  So, their service was far from perfect, but they stepped up and resolved their problem within 24 hours... now they just need to do something to keep me from uninstalling their client in about 7 days.  I'd bet against Microsoft here.  Someday they will hire someone that is good at this sort of thing...