Microsoft rewarding Xbox Live veterans with special 360s

Microsoft is surprising its longest-lasting Xbox Live subscribers with a special edition console in celebration of the service's 10-year anniversary.

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Xbox Live is turning 10 years old, and if you've been a member for nearly that long you might have a surprise waiting for you today. Microsoft has confirmed that it is rewarding long-time Xbox Live user with special edition consoles. At least one veteran found the surprise console at home.

Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb confirmed the giveaways with a tweet (via Kotaku). The special edition console has its own color scheme, and logos touting a "Decade of Entertainment" and "XBL10" on the side and disc tray of the console, respectively.

Hryb's tweet didn't quite specify what counts as "the longest." The service launched in October 2002, so users who have been members the entire time are probably few and far between. It's safe to assume that anyone who's kept up a Live subscription for that long already has an Xbox 360, so this decorative brag piece might end up on eBay someday.

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    November 14, 2012 2:00 PM

    Steve Watts posted a new article, Microsoft rewarding Xbox Live veterans with special 360s.

    Microsoft is surprising its longest-lasting Xbox Live subscribers with a special edition console in celebration of the service's 10-year anniversary.

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      November 14, 2012 2:10 PM

      Heh, I'd been a member since the beta (still have the orange memory card) but cancelled my live sub a few months ago. Doubt they would have sent any of these to the UK anyway.

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        November 14, 2012 3:22 PM

        Yeah me too, well my dad has that account now. Would have been awesome to have been given one of those. MotoGP and Mechassault were the days of old!

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        November 14, 2012 4:24 PM

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      November 14, 2012 4:19 PM

      I have 7 years under my belt. Doesn't really seem like its been that long.

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      November 14, 2012 5:51 PM

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      November 15, 2012 7:17 AM

      I got 30 days. And that was free.....

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      November 15, 2012 7:25 AM

      sigpro and I were talking about this earlier in the week. I dug up my original signup date of 11/18/2002 which was three days after it went live.

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        November 15, 2012 7:28 AM

        I'm guessing that anyone who signed up during the first year it went live and has maintained since then would qualify for the 10 year edition.

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        November 15, 2012 7:47 AM

        i am trying to find my original sign up date, how did you do it

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          November 15, 2012 7:48 AM

          https://commerce.microsoft.com/PaymentHub/Subscription

          click 'view history' and scroll all the way down.

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            November 15, 2012 7:54 AM

            according to my that number that shows up on your gamer profile on the xbox, i've been on for 9 years.

            according to that site, i have a new subscription as my credit card expired a few months ago and i never bothered to update it. i doubt i would get one of those xboxes anyway, but i have two histories -- one that started 6/2003 and one that started last month

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            November 15, 2012 8:03 AM

            11/16/202 for me but then I switched to a family account a couple years ago and that is a new cycle.

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            November 15, 2012 11:15 AM

            11/20/2002.

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      November 15, 2012 7:25 AM

      This is pretty amazing. I've been a member since the beta days (and have the shirt to prove it!). Microsoft rarely surprises, but this is a combo breaker.

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      November 15, 2012 7:32 AM

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        November 15, 2012 7:49 AM

        A group of buds and Ghost Recon Coop was where it was at. Great times.

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      November 15, 2012 7:56 AM

      Don't worry, after 10 years of subs, those people have already more than paid for a new console

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      November 15, 2012 7:57 AM

      Rats. I'm at nine years. :)

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      November 15, 2012 8:05 AM

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      November 27, 2012 2:22 AM

      10 yrs of rrod and paying to play p2p

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