If you don't have a personal account, visit the Microsoft account page to sign up. Gift cards can be redeemed to personal Microsoft accounts, not business or corporate accounts. If you’re having trouble redeeming a gift card or code, select one of the following troubleshooting scenarios that best fits your issue, and it will expand to display more info:
If the card or code is for a subscription, you can find it in your Services & subscriptions. When some apps or games are redeemed, they will take you to the product page where you can also download and install.
If the card or code is for a specific app or game, we'll add it to your personal library, where you can download and install it. You can use it to buy things from Microsoft Store online, on Windows 10, and on Xbox One. If the card or code has money on it, we'll apply the entire balance to your Microsoft account. What happens after I redeem my gift card or code? If you see Redeemed code under Payment method, the card or code was successfully redeemed. On the Order history page, look for the date that you redeemed the card or code, and you’ll see the order number and how the card or code was used. To see if your card or code was redeemed, check your order history. How can I tell if my card or code was redeemed? Don’t worry about hyphens, the system takes care of those for you. If you aren't already signed in, sign in to the Microsoft account on which you want to redeem the code.Įnter the 25-character code, and then select Redeem. In Microsoft Store, select the See more menu (located next to the Search box on the upper right side of the page).
On your Windows 10 device, select Microsoft Store on the taskbar.
Here's how to redeem a gift card or code from Microsoft Store on a Windows 10 device: Like hmmm you have this game for literally 50% off retail and it just came out last week, and you only have Russian/Chinese copies? Sounds legit.Note: To redeem a gift card or code on your Xbox One or Xbox 360, see How to redeem gift cards and codes. On Steam for example you can keep extra copies in your inventory and gift them to friends later. Could be up to the platform (uplay, origin, steam) to give options for that, though. Would you like to make them giftable? Or, it could ask you to confirm that these extra copies will be disappearing into oblivion if they don't make a gifting option. It could prompt you saying this, this, and this already exist on your account. The authentication stuff happens through the API in the background.ģ. It's all API, discord has no information other than a username. It probably works via an API, like "linking" your twitch or steam accounts to discord. I don't think this will be an issue whatsoever. How it works is that you buy a game from a site, like Fanatical, and at checkout you have to enter your uPlay account.Ģ. This is not their in-house solution, they have developing this with a UK company Genba Digital. It's called Silent Key Activation (SKA) and it's actually quite simple. Illegal key sales and grey market sites have been a problem for literally everyone in gaming industry, and seems that Ubisoft will lead the charge it removing game keys completely. Yeah I can see this taking off immediately. They believe this will be the industry standard in a year and Genba Digital is working with another AAA publisher on another platform.
What if you buy a bundle and already own some games? Do they get stuck between two worlds in vacuum? I am sure not a lot of people will be happy with linking their accounts to third party sites, no matter which ones. What if you wanna sell a gift? Do you enter someones specific account and an let's say e-mail invitation gets sent? Genba has already set it up for ten digital game distributors – including Fanatical and GamersGate – while others like Green Man Gaming have their own equivalent tech in place.īasically a lot of them have been on this for some time it seems. With silent key activation now in place, Ubisoft is refusing to sell its PC game keys through any third-party marketplace that isn’t SKA approved.