If you wish to give a recreation to a pal or member of the family this vacation season, gifting a digital recreation is a good and handy choice. With the Microsoft Retailer on Xbox, Microsoft Retailer on Home windows, the Xbox App on PC, or the Microsoft Retailer on-line expertise, it’s by no means been simpler to ship somebody a near-instantaneous reward on Xbox or PC.
To see how straightforward it’s to reward a recreation on console, you may watch our tutorial video under, or learn on for a step-by-step information.
Gifting Via Console
To ship a digital recreation as a present in your console simply go to the Microsoft Retailer, discover the sport you’d wish to reward, find the reward wrap icon, and click on on it.
This can open the “Purchase as reward” choices, the place you may both select somebody from your pals record or sort in an e-mail. Notice: Be sure the particular person receiving the reward is in the identical nation as you.
From right here, simply select your fee choice and purchase as a present.
Your pal will obtain a message each on their Xbox console and the e-mail related to their Xbox account. From there they solely must click on on “Redeem code” and they’re able to play!
You can too ship add-ons and subscriptions as presents, similar to Xbox Recreation Move Final!
Gifting Via the Xbox App on PC
This is identical course of as shopping for a present on console – merely seek for the sport you need to ship, then hit the “…” button and decide “Purchase as Present” within the dropdown menu. You possibly can select to ship this to an Xbox pal, or ship to an e-mail deal with.
Gifting Via Internet Browser
On the net your expertise shall be fairly related, although you’ll solely have the e-mail choice. Go to the Microsoft Retailer On-line, discover the sport, add-on, or subscription you want to ship as a present and click on on “Purchase as a Present,” within the “…” dropdown menu beside the purchase button, be it in your desktop or cellular gadget. After you log in to your Microsoft Account, select your fee methodology, and you might be able to go.
Gifting Via the Microsoft Retailer on Home windows
On the Microsoft Retailer on Home windows expertise, you’ll solely have the e-mail choice. Go to the Microsoft Retailer on Home windows, discover the sport, add-on, or subscription you want to ship as a present and click on on “Purchase as a Present”, icon under the purchase button. After you log in to your Microsoft Account, select your fee methodology, and you might be able to go.
For all the small print on gifting digital video games, go to our help web page.
This text has been up to date for 2024. The unique model of the article was written by Daniel Martins.
