[QUOTE="roddollente"]
Ooh. I fail at reading.
"Further, Microsoft only sells point packs in multiples of 400, often leaving gamers with excess points after purchasing content that they want. This last point is the subject of a new class action lawsuit..."
While Microsoft's system is intentionally stupid, unfair, misleading, shady, anti-consumer and annoying, I don't know if what they're doing is illegal. I hope it is.
Most of the time if you're going to buy an item you're forced to pay a downpayment on the next item you're going to purchase, and so on and on, really difficult to end this cycle.
Imagine if this was a real physical store. It would make no god damn sense and no sane person would shop there. But for some reason this is deemed acceptable in the digital world. Imagine if it wasn't, maybe you'd be awarded points for purchasing stuff like what a normal store does to encourage you to come back?
"But it's only 250 points or whatever."
So effing what? Imagine the accumulated sum of all XBL users. Microsoft is getting millions of dollars in interest free loans.
And I once did buy something I wasn't planning on just to get rid of the leftovers. Bought the Pure theme. Since you can't preview themes I didn't know that it was a piece of crap. I'd want a refund, but since this is the digital world that's not possible.
Digital distribution can suck so hard.
InsaneBasura
[QUOTE="roddollente"]
i guess people here dont know what the lawsuit is for?
basically, the guy says there's a minimum of purchaseable points from MS.i.e. a game is worth 800 MS points but the minimum is like 1000 so you have an extra hanging even though you only wanted to spend 800 points from it. this, in turn, will push the consumer to purchase more, but as he purchases more, there will still be leftovers from the point system. it means this is a hideous way of charging consumers for something that they initially wouldnt buy. i know you guys will say, 'then just dont spend it!' but the logic here is that MS knows that you either have to buy more points, or you can just leave it there with the extra points. at a consumer's point of view, you'd think it'd be better if you just spend more since you already have a 'downpayment' but that leads to more and more leftovers leading to more purchases. get it?
InsaneBasura
Ooh. I fail at reading.
"Further, Microsoft only sells point packs in multiples of 400, often leaving gamers with excess points after purchasing content that they want. This last point is the subject of a new ****action lawsuit..."
While Microsoft's system is intentionally stupid, unfair, misleading, shady, anti-consumer and annoying, I don't know if what they're doing is illegal. I hope it is.
Most of the time if you're going to buy an item you're forced to pay a downpayment on the next item you're going to purchase, and so on and on, really difficult to end this cycle.
Imagine if this was a real physical store. It would make no god damn sense and no sane person would shop there. But for some reason this is deemed acceptable in the digital world. Imagine if it wasn't, maybe you'd be awarded points for purchasing stuff like what a normal store does to encourage you to come back?
"But it's only 250 points or whatever."
So effing what? Imagine the accumulated sum of all XBL users. Microsoft is getting millions of dollars in interest free loans.
And I once did buy something I wasn't planning on just to get rid of the leftovers. Bought the Pure theme. Since you can't preview themes I didn't know that it was a piece of crap. I'd want a refund, but since this is the digital world that's not possible.
Digital distribution can suck so hard.
Pretty much sums up my problem with the point system.
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