A Letter to XBox Live
Dear XBox Live...
This is more of a comment than a request. No response is necessary, unless you intend to actually sell anything on XBox Live. Although I'm sure the world is teeming with masses of morons who will still make you a healthy profit. However, I recall basic math from elementary school and therefore know how to divide.
The prices of XBox Originals on XBox live are completely whacked. Fable for example, is 1200 points, which equals $18.60 CAD. I can buy this game (even the Lost Chapters extended version) for $12.00 -- regular price -- from local retailers. And I even get a disc, so I don't have to worry about filling up my dinky little 20GB hard drive. BTW: Where the hell do you even find these 20GB hard drives? Refurbs from 1995?
If you plan on actually selling these games, they have to be CHEAPER than their retail counterparts.
That is unless you're solely targeting the ultra-gamer who is now beyond any hope of actually leaving the couch and whose ability to divide is limited only to how many handfuls of Doritos they can get out of a bag to determine how many bags they'll need to make it through Fable in a single sitting!
I also find it totally ridiculous that you sell point packs in multiples of 500, but sell games in multiples of 400, making it a mathematical chore to figure out how I can actually spend them all. Again, preying on the brain mashed couch potatoes. They have rights too!
I recommend you lower the price of the game or, even better, the points; and sell the packs in multiples that match how I spend them. Or here's a novel concept.... LET ME USE REAL MONEY!!! Oh wait, then you would lose control of the value of your fantasy currency...I get it.
I'm off to buy the $12.00 version this time.
Thanks for listening.
Clinton
This is more of a comment than a request. No response is necessary, unless you intend to actually sell anything on XBox Live. Although I'm sure the world is teeming with masses of morons who will still make you a healthy profit. However, I recall basic math from elementary school and therefore know how to divide.
The prices of XBox Originals on XBox live are completely whacked. Fable for example, is 1200 points, which equals $18.60 CAD. I can buy this game (even the Lost Chapters extended version) for $12.00 -- regular price -- from local retailers. And I even get a disc, so I don't have to worry about filling up my dinky little 20GB hard drive. BTW: Where the hell do you even find these 20GB hard drives? Refurbs from 1995?
If you plan on actually selling these games, they have to be CHEAPER than their retail counterparts.
That is unless you're solely targeting the ultra-gamer who is now beyond any hope of actually leaving the couch and whose ability to divide is limited only to how many handfuls of Doritos they can get out of a bag to determine how many bags they'll need to make it through Fable in a single sitting!
I also find it totally ridiculous that you sell point packs in multiples of 500, but sell games in multiples of 400, making it a mathematical chore to figure out how I can actually spend them all. Again, preying on the brain mashed couch potatoes. They have rights too!
I recommend you lower the price of the game or, even better, the points; and sell the packs in multiples that match how I spend them. Or here's a novel concept.... LET ME USE REAL MONEY!!! Oh wait, then you would lose control of the value of your fantasy currency...I get it.
I'm off to buy the $12.00 version this time.
Thanks for listening.
Clinton
posted by Clinton Begin at
12:10 AM
