I think we're going to start seeing this more and more, companies are beginning to see that they can make a lot of money with online gaming and will exploit it (and us) where ever possible, whether these costs are justified or not, i don't know but expect to be pulling out your credit more often. There are a lot of marketing ploys designed to ease you into spending lots of money, like microsoft points for instance, rather then having a dollar value, say 1 point per dollar, you purchase 1000 points for $16.50, once your payment has been made all you see is that you have 1000 points, now that instantly devalues the real dollars that they are worth, so when you see something as basic as a t-shirt for your avatar being 200 points, you think "so what, i have 1000 of them" not realizing that you've just spend $3.30 for a tiny shirt animation. some of these clothing items can get up to 400 points. all i'm saying is companies these days are geared towards parting you with your money so be careful, and think into what an item or service is actually worth to you V what they are REALLY asking for it.
Moderators seem to be easily offended these days. considering this site is for people who play games that contain content that would make most people throw up, let alone beoffended bya few cuss words.
Go on, say it. everyone on the internet has an opinion, clearly yours is more important so lets hear it.
i dont get what people dont understand about a corporation like microsoft. Their goal is to MAKE MONEY! why would they introduce a feature that gives us stuff for free? Witchsight
Why do restaurants and thousands of other establishments give away things for free? To keep customers coming back. Achievement points arent even free, you need to buy games to get them.... for MS, its far fetched, but not nearly as pointless as you make it seem.
True, it would make Xbox more attractive over PS3 if you could earn points just by playing games,I don't see why they don't. I have about 12,000 gamer points at the moment,that took me ages to get, what if that amount of points allowed me a $12 discount, granted that would pay for some DLC'S entirely, but it took me over a year to earn those points, surely you would buy a lot more then that during the year. then again... It's microsoft, if we held our breath for a 2 cent discount we'd all suffocate.
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