February 17th 2009 8:05 am PT

Sick. I’ll buy some points tomorrow and play it!
Can’t wait to ride shotgun on a bike

This Is Great I Been Playing It This Just Killing Sony Fanboys Lol All Microsoft Needs To Do Is Fix There Red Ring Problem And They Will Never Touch The Xbox Please Fix The Red Rings Its Been Messed Up Since Launch And Still Red Ring Fix It!

Why are you 2hrs late? This has been available for over 2hrs now.

I had to delete my Burnout Paradise updates just to make room for this. Any chance of a price cut on those hard drives?

why not in japan? my primary account is a japanese one. this sux really bad.

Lovin the Crue soundtrack
Hatin the fact I have to juggle dinner and DLC.
Man, I should have eaten earlier. One question, how am I supposed to fit this, Halo Wars AND hawx into the next three weeks?????

just downloading now ,this is gonna be sick .i cant wait to get full wood..

This is region locked. I ask, WHY? If it’s available in all regions except Japan, why the region lock? THOUSANDS, if not more people in non-LIVE-supported countries would’ve bought this expansion happily, spending tons of Microsoft Points on it – now they cannot, because the damned thing is region locked. Worst decision this year, Microsoft, you just cut yourselves from a lot of money and got yourselves a lot of new haters.

my first impressions of this dlc is IT ROCKS big time trust me if your into gta your gonna love this. its well worth the price..go on you no you want to..

Why can’t I download this in Switzerland? There were no hints that the game might be locked, and even your banner suggests it is only Japan it is unavailable.

i’m just like you ( dreampage )

i’m from Saudi Arabia and i can’t download it

40p cheaper to get it online! haha

I’m from Russia and can’t by & download too (((
Why is region lock?! (((((

Woohooo, already paid and added it to my queue to download.
Pitty the 360 doesn’t support WOL as i could have started it downloading now while at work.

This DLC is unbelievably amazing!

Props R* and props to MS for the 50 mill exclusives

i’ve got an UK account, and can’t download it either.

Come on, region lock?! Why?! Why I just can’t give you my money for this stuff?!

Major Nelson, please, do something about this stupid region lock.

can’t download in the Uk either…however I am trying with the SG account.

Are you serious? Region-locked?
Major, please let it be available for everyone, please! Thousands of people aren’t able to buy it because of its stupid locked region.

Sorry to have to this but everyone argues about the price of arcades!
1600mp for DLC what a scam!

now wait till tuesday when every american will whinge about the price of death tanks!

@VEGEMITE 98

This is not map pack with 3 maps. The content easily justifies the price. It’s more content than most games.

400 point less than Death Tank and you think this DLC is a scam? Each to their own.

im in the uk let me download it im playing it now!

If you are having problems downloading from Majors Link do the following:

Login to the xbox homepage and make sure it is on YOUR OWN COUNTRY.

Now go to marketplace and select L & D and add it to your queue. If you don’t do this the Marketplace site thinks that you want to download the US version and gives an error. (I have had this issue before in the UK when the links were for the US store. To do a quick bypass for the UK just change EN-US to EN-GB in the link that Major posts.

Major, is there a universal link that will take you to your own region as this would stop everyone moaning.

I moved from Ireland to Germany and now I won’t be able to play TLAD? I get the the “This item is not available…” on my 360…

@IrN ChRiZ – it’s not that the problem.
The real problem in this case is – DLC is region locked. I’m from Greece with UK account and can’t downloading this, thousands people from other countries too. WTF Microsoft? I can’t spend my points for most wanting DLC so far? Absolutely lame and stupid story!
Please Major, do something. This must be available for all people.

I’ve tried logging out and logging back in to the UK site, but i stillc ant download it, telling me its not in my region, even though its blatantly available on the front page of the UK site

i used the link at around 9.30am,watched Terminator 1..and by the time it had finished the L+D had downloaded

it still wasnt on my marketplace(UK)when i started the download…but it is up there now

and dont forget people in UK,to download the new gamerpics as well,when you download them you register yourself for a chance to win goodies(GTA4 themed XBOX360) if you also play L+D in the following week

@Smoothbond

i used this link at 9.30am

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/games/offers/0ccf0001-0000-4000-8000-0000545407f2?cid=SLink

and just scrolled down and selcted it to download,next time i turned on my 360 it was already downloading

played a few missions,its pretty cool riding your bike around with the rest of the Lost

Im Trying to download from France via xbox.com and i also get the message:-

Sorry

This offer is not valid in your region, or it has expired.

Whats going on mircrosoft!?!?!

I’m picking up the 1900space bucks today!

It’s not working for Brazil

My mate recently moved from NZ to Australia and went totally off his rocker when he too got the “not available in your region message”. I mean come on people, the problem isnt the region locked games but the inability to change your Country associated with your gamertag.

I read in old posts on this site when this thing was first introduced that MS would be allowing users who moved to change these settings on a case by case basis, however it seems this was just nonsense as tech support just says to make a new gamertag, lose all your gamer points, marketplace points etc. Its absolutely ridiculous and just plain wrong.

My download is frozen at 48% :s

I actually bought 2100 points today, thinking i’d be able to buy it… I was WRONG! So yeah no DLC in Slovenia – same with ALOT of other good stiff, for example GTA: SA.. i cant download anything T.T

Half of the world can’t download this probably, so how can Microsoft say “yeah we have extra GTA content and Sony doesn’t” -man f*** that… USA and UK can play it, others can’t .. that’s not so special. And why loose money when they can sell it everywhere? Its all because of legal issues, because mothers are worried their sons will play it and kill people… If organizations like ESRB, PEGI, CERO, BBFC wouldn’t exist, no one could say “this has too much violence” and distributors and publishers from all over the couldn’t listen to them so they would just make it worldwide. Thanks allot Microsoft. If i only knew how they check the region, IP or DNS too? If they only check IP’s, than it shouldn’t be a problem to obtain it even thought they don’t want ut to play it

Your theory on game violence as the reason for region locking is pretty naive. Its all about money, same with DVD region coding etc. Stop people importing etc. Different copyright laws and whatever.

MS needs to change this however. If you can access Live, you should be able to DL this no questions. Because you have moved overseas you should not have to create a new gamertag to buy points or DL locked games. People buy points before purchasing this, so MS is taking peoples money for something that many can’t even have. What an absolute crock.

Just downloaded it with no problems at all!

It seems that you can use a VPN, buy it through Xbox.com and download it to your Xbox without issues.
Let’s see…

@HairBandReject .. yeah in the end it all comes down to money. I guess your solution would work, but less money for Microsoft ^^.

…lol & they said networking is the future. I think not people are much more confident in buying hard copy.

Seems to be working now.

Saving my MS Points for Death Tank that comes to XBLA tomorrow.
Might eventually get Lost & Damned. But not just now.

:} Same here, working for Slovenia now.

Hmm to buy or not to buy, that is teehhhh questionaire.

Now working for This English man living in Paris! Just need to get back to the house asap to play it now!!

Region lock removed.

@metallicorphan

all good now, cheers

I like the part it’s exclusive for Xbox owner, but not so exclusive like that. Region blocked, why???????

Not so smart… it’s BS.

woohoo!

Thank you microsoft guys for unblocking the content so we can spend our money!

WHERE IS THE RACE PRO DEMO!!!!!!

Pretty good so far, although a little annoyed that the main character is again a remorseful guy instead of a nutter.

I have been taken off my bike by eager team mates crashing into me, but all in all, very good.

Darn! i gotta get some points!

Downloaded. So far, so good. Can’t wait to play more.
And thx for Microsoft for removing region restrictions.

Wow, this is WAY too expensive!! I was hoping for an 800 point price like most DLC. I have bought tons of DLC at 800 points and lower. 1600 is outrageous and I’ll be skipping it permanently unless it comes down in price significantly over the next few months.

ElektroDragon – You have got to be joking… It is a full expansion, that as others have said, contains more gameplay than some full price games! 19.99 is NOT all that expensive for what you are getting, especially considering what other expansion packs have charged and considering their content. To each his own, but, really… Find something better and more deserving to complain about.

I bought it on Amazon, coming in a few days. I am in no rush to play, way to busy.

1600 points though ?!?!?! Wow !

Going to get it tommorrow after my two midterms, then i’ll be playing alllllll week!!

I’m a Brazilian and here we don’t have problems with any games, but Microsoft don’t like us, and block this DLC to US too.
So, if m$ don’t want make money selling this item to us in Brazil, I won’t use my VPN count to buy this DLC.
I don’t care.

Obviously, you’re missing the point about the “I can’t spend my money (points) because of the region-lock!”

Guess what.

You’ve already payed for it. How? You bought some MS points, that’s where MS get’s it’s money from, not your DLC. So, if you’ve already redeemed the code for your 1600/2100/whatever card, bad luck for ya.

this is awesome

Downloaded and played a little of The Lost and Damned. I have 2 questions: First why did Rockstar make starting The Game so dumb by having to hit pause and go into the pause menu instead of giving people a choice on the load screen? And the second is : I am no developer or programner but one of the songs I was sure to be on LRR Station was “Born to be Wild” by steppenwolf but its not.

I still can’t believe Microsoft actually wasted so much money on this mediocre DLC (especially when the core game itself is the worst game in the series). They should’ve used that money to create a new IP or something. I will stay far away from the DLC and anything related to GTA4 from now on.

Why the hell did they take the annihilator helicopter out of free mode?!!!

@DNAgent

While I respect your opinion, I couldn’t disagree more.

I said screw it and just started to downloaded it. Very large file, can’t wait to play it.

We definitely need a menu to choose between the two at startup & not going through the pause menu. I spent 10 minutes going through the cell phone trying to find it and redownloading, thinking it might have corrupted.

here how you can EASY Skip Regional Block

0-. Your XBOX360 must be off
1-. Download and Install HOTSPOT SHIELD ( http://www.hotspotshield.com)
2-. Ejecute HOTSPOT SHIELD and connect
3-. when it’s connecter go to http://www.speedtest.net and be sure that your new IP is from USA
4-. Now login with your gamertag in http://www.xbox.com
5-. Be sure that your location is USA.
6-. Go to the marketplace
7-. search GTA4 LOST AND DEMAND and download it and put it in your queue (you can close now HOTSPOT SHIELD)
8-. Now start your XBOX360, now you will see in your queue LOST AND DEMAND…
9-. wait it finish… lets play then

This new story is really entertaining. I’ve had some really cinematic moments while driving around on my chopper.

I completed the game in 4 hours. Only 23 Missions. (NOT INCLUDING SIDE MISSIONS).

1600 MS for 23 easy missions? I want my money back!

Anyone having problems with the add-in locking? It locks all the time for me.

I hade more pleasureing time watching trailers than playing it. Some stuff in the trailer never happend and i got 100% in the lost and damned

@DNAgent
I dunno how you can say that considering the game isn’t even listed in your recently played titles. How do you bag something that you have never played?

@Secret Fuller
I see you are making multiple posts about how bad it is… and yet as I type you are:
Online
Playing GTA IV
TLAD:Get Lost – Area Alderney

This was glitchy in the download phase but I guess that was just a function of the demand for it. Looking forward to playing this tonight

this is stupid whenever i load on gta 4 it automatically loads L+D… i want to go back to gta 4 once in a while to do achievements grrrr!!!

the only way i can think of getting back to gta 4 is deleting the L+D… does anyone know if theres a proper way or if rockstar never actually thought about this and are just retarded

Hey where do i get them GTA LATD gamer pics at.

@Maini8000
Press start and then scroll over to where it says “Game”. Either load a previous GTA IV save or start a new GTA IV game. That should do the trick. Use the same method if you wish to go back to Lost & Damned.

Stonep2277: Its download & register gamer picture, I think its only in uk.

the reason im playing TLAD is to get all the 250 G which i did. and i love grand theft auto IV. I wish rocstar are busy making the second eposoide for xbox live, Lets hope for the best!

@Secret Fuller: Oh ok damn i want them they look cool as hell bro.

@Secret Fuller: They are busy making the second one that’s coming out later this yea, if I remember right. Cant wait to have it today

I can never wait. Im the biggest gta iv fan.

Me too lol

@SilentBob251 thank you

where do i register to get them gamerpics??

@Maini8000 The easyest way to do it is to add me and then il tell you.

On Rockstar web site it says that you can fully customize johnny’s chopper (BIKE), How do you do that?

And they made a tow truck but how do i tow a car?

Major how come you get every game before it comes out!? ITS NOT FAIR! give us halo wars too!

@Maini8000

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/offers/022f000b-0000-4000-8000-0000475207f5?cid=SLink

Do you know SilentBob251 how to tow a car or customize johnny’s bike?

I can’t wait to get this…

Arrrrrgh I need to get off work so I can keep playing!

this add-on is just amazing…i love it…the story is much better than the story of nico…and the dialogs and cut-scenes are really cool. I am looking forward to the next Episode. This Add-on is 1600 Points worth!

only 23 missions most of the new cars isn’t drive able, Only 1 safe house.

secret fuller

STOP IT!

YOU’RE PATHETIC!

Sorry i was just hoping for more Missions and Cars. In the lost and damned in Free mode you cant fly the Annihilator Helicopter. You must say thats anoying for GTA IV fans.

Major Nelson. Please tell rockstar about the Annihilator Helicopter in Free mode.

Anyone disappointed by this addon? Didnt last very long for my son to finish this off. 2 days after school.. Didnt feel it was worth the points at all.

c’mon! put it down to 1500 points! Microsoft sells points in packs of 1500 and 3000, im 100 points short. stupid pricing…

i wasnt dissapointed…it was short thats true…i finished it after 2 days but it was worth to buy it cuz u also have the new multiplayer modes. Gang-Fights and some secondary missions.The presentation of the 23 missions was amazing so i am really amazed about the addon. I hope the next and last episode will so nice like this one too. Let the next Episode come Rockstar! I will buy it for sure!