Steam, 50% off Arkham Asylum (plus a few others)
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GFWL will soon be selling its own game.
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/61471
Not a fan of the system myself thou.
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/61471
Not a fan of the system myself thou.
Really got their finger on the pulse, haven't they? 
I can't see their prices being very competitive, and every time I've downloaded dlc from there, my download speeds have been laughable. I'll happily give it a go one day if there's a good offer on there though, try it out.
I can't see their prices being very competitive, and every time I've downloaded dlc from there, my download speeds have been laughable. I'll happily give it a go one day if there's a good offer on there though, try it out.
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Xbox live works great, so no reason why GFWL shouldn't. The points system is a bit ******** though. I hate having to buy odd amounts and have some left. But they've done it to save them selves money. When people pay small amounts using a card they lose out as the card company charges them. Recent update to GFWL live seems to have sped things up and streamlined it quite a bit.
I dont think MS points exist because they want to save themselves money (I doubt they would have supported anything but 'top-ups' via CC and not directly paying for the item via CC), but its a great way to ensure people end up with odd amounts which they cant spend without spending more on points 'top-ups' and with any currency it allows them to 'artificially' inflate the pricing without necessarily making it obvious to the consumer...
ps3ud0
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I dont think MS points exist because they want to save themselves money (I doubt they would have supported anything but 'top-ups' via CC and not directly paying for the item via CC), but its a great way to ensure people end up with odd amounts which they cant spend without spending more on points 'top-ups' and with any currency it allows them to 'artificially' inflate the pricing without necessarily making it obvious to the consumer...
ps3ud0
This is heinous lies, surely? I've always thought of Microsoft as a crowd-pleaser, willing to go the extra mile for the end user and only charging what they must to survive. That's why they gifted us Win7, wasn't it? I'll lose all my faith in capitalism if it turns out they're just another money-farming collection of software abusers, buying their way through life on the sweat of the ignorant.
Does that mean i can buy the smallest amount of points possible and buy multiples of them instead of a single 1 to screw MS out of more money?
That said i refuse to use such a ridiculous system. I'm not 5, i'm not going to buy more points than i need when theres no legit reason i couldn't just use my damn money for it.
@Deadbeat, i though you were deadly serious for a moment
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Theres no way MS will let you pay for an item thats 80 points with a card as its like 92p in money. Its an xbox thing that shouldn't be carried over to PC if all we will be buying is items that are £5 or more.
No paypal accepted.....Can't see them selling many games then..
And what is Microsoft Points ??
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I see two reasons for the Microsoft Points system.
The altruistic: Little Jimmy and Jenny are too young for a CC, the points system allows them to make their own purchasing decisions within the limits set by parents, pocket money, ability to bully and outright theft.
The business model: The points system is a cash up front model with the added benefit of any surplus being held by MS. Most here would I'm sure frown on any supplier who charged a pre-order before the date of shipment yet this is exactly the behaviour the buyer condones when purchasing MS points - MS take the money at the moment the points are purchased, it matters little to MS when the points are redeemed. The fact that points can only be purchased in fixed allotments has the added benefit, for MS, of allowing an official mechanisum by which they can habitually 'overcharge'. The monetary sums involved around the odd few hundred points may be trivial ( or not when multiplied by 1,000,000 users) but when full games are charged at retail prices around the £30 (4000 points) to £50 (6000 points) mark (my guesses) and these points are purchased days or weeks in advance, well, I think the business 'logic' is easy to see.
The altruistic: Little Jimmy and Jenny are too young for a CC, the points system allows them to make their own purchasing decisions within the limits set by parents, pocket money, ability to bully and outright theft.
The business model: The points system is a cash up front model with the added benefit of any surplus being held by MS. Most here would I'm sure frown on any supplier who charged a pre-order before the date of shipment yet this is exactly the behaviour the buyer condones when purchasing MS points - MS take the money at the moment the points are purchased, it matters little to MS when the points are redeemed. The fact that points can only be purchased in fixed allotments has the added benefit, for MS, of allowing an official mechanisum by which they can habitually 'overcharge'. The monetary sums involved around the odd few hundred points may be trivial ( or not when multiplied by 1,000,000 users) but when full games are charged at retail prices around the £30 (4000 points) to £50 (6000 points) mark (my guesses) and these points are purchased days or weeks in advance, well, I think the business 'logic' is easy to see.
