| Jonathan Jennings |
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thank you MS, nothing more irritating then spending $20 when all I want to buy is a game on sale for $5 and this gives me the chance to purchase indie games on a whim. As of now all indie games purchases I made over XBL are the result of my XBL account having the equivalent to loose change...what else do I buy for 340 MS points?
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| Alex Leighton |
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I actually prefer the points to real money. With real money, you're always left with an odd amount which you can literally buy nothing with (like the 43 cents I have in my PSN wallet). At least with points, stuff is rounded enough that you can always get the full value of the card. Also, stuff actually costs what it says it costs, you don't get hit with taxes at the checkout and find out that you're two cents short and have to add another 10 bucks, which you will never fully use. Obviously this only applies if you don't use a CC.
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| Glenn Sturgeon |
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This may be a step forward, but they have to accept paypal. That way you can pay exactly what you owe, nothing more and you never need to send your credit card info. Theres no way im giving either ms or sony my cc info to store on one of thier servers so i can get DLC or games.
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| Victor Reynolds |
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as i said on kotaku, say good bye to great deals on MS point cards from amazon sales and the like. >:(
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| Matthew Mouras |
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I didn't like them at first, but MS points have come to grow on me over the years for a number of the reasons people stated above: security, ease of use, sale prices on external websites. Why invest all the resources necessary to change a pillar of their architecture that is currently working just fine? I hope that, as MS suggests, this is just a rumor.
Though... it would be nice to have a digital distribution model more like Steam :) If this change would bring them closer to that, I'd support it. |
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| Benjamin Quintero |
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This could be a good thing for the Indie games if they take away the abstraction. It will be especially dangerous if they store your credit card and charge direct instead of pools of MS points :).
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| Marcus Miller |
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I have mixed feelings. I bought Kinect Haunt the other day for 800 points ($10). I had to buy 1,600 points($20) so now I have an extra 800 points sitting in my account. I just wanted to by a $10 game and I end up spending $20.
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| Matt Ployhar |
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I agree with Micah. While point systems do have some merit... it's also an obfuscation tactic.
Points & Rewards based systems like this have been designed & perfected by Businesses & Academia guru's as a means & tool to psychologically get consumers to spend more. (I call it a mental shell game). It's easier to spend points... than it is money... and mentally alleviates some buyer's remorse issues. There's more to it than that but I think you all get the point. Time for speculation!!!! It was posited to me yesterday by a collegue that the Xbox Group's impetus behind this would be to help them get into other Geo's - namely China. That hadn't occurred to me but seems as good a theory as any for them to do this. They're definitely not doing it without an agenda behind it. |
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| Jack Kerras |
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I got 12,000 points for Christmas. O_O;
...okay, I guess I have a little spending spree now. |
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