3000 Microsoft Points - what to spend them on?

spudbynight · 10 Nov 2011 at 10:33

I have been given 3000 Microsoft points by Microsoft.

I have been looking around the games for windows live marketplace. The selection of games is pretty small and the prices are not great. Those points work out at roughly equivalent to £25 to spend.

Any advice on what I should buy? Do they have much in the way of sales? Should I hold onto the points?

Diplexbullet19 · 10 Nov 2011 at 10:42

SamPazz · 10 Nov 2011 at 11:31

Trials HD is pretty good, 800 points. As for sales probably not

shaggyd · 10 Nov 2011 at 12:51

If you like rts, Age of Empires Online might be worth a look. I have paid £40 so far for the 3 civilisations and a few extras. The units & quests are varied and the rpg elements are fun, such as equipping your troops with gear found in looted chests. The online aspect is crap, as few will help in co-op and there are plenty of gold sellers (who can be ignored).

spudbynight · 10 Nov 2011 at 15:43

Anyone know any games on the marketplace that will activate on Steam?

spudbynight · 10 Nov 2011 at 15:44

SamPazz said:
Trials HD is pretty good, 800 points. As for sales probably not

That is XBOX only from what I can see.

AWPC · 10 Nov 2011 at 15:46

spudbynight said:
Anyone know any games on the marketplace that will activate on Steam?

None as they do not sell any games which have Steamworks apart from DOW2+ Chaos Rising. Just save your points for the Batman Arkham City DLC which is most likely 560 MS Points x 3 @ launch or buy some more points & buy Batman Arkham City as MS usually have slightly cheaper prices than Steam anyway.

spudbynight · 10 Nov 2011 at 15:48

I have Arkham City on preorder already so I might wait for that then.

hairyfeet · 10 Nov 2011 at 15:53

Age of Empires online might be worth a glance, should be some gameplay footage on youtube if your interested in the series

SamPazz · 10 Nov 2011 at 16:14

spudbynight said:
That is XBOX only from what I can see.

So it is, oops :eek:

spudbynight · 9 Jan 2012 at 18:53

Still got ALL these points. Not spotted anything worth spending them on.

Still in shock at Crysis2 being £59.99 on Marketplace at the moment.

Witcher1979 · 9 Jan 2012 at 19:24

Gears of War on PC is good, with the extra game content.

ripper24 · 9 Jan 2012 at 21:04

Trails HD is a good crack
also if you have a kinect then 'Fruit Ninja'

Battle Field 1942 is a very good addictive run and gun, especially when drunk.

derv · 9 Jan 2012 at 21:43

Are they transferrable? If it was me I'd find someone to trade the points for some Steam games

KillBoY_UK · 9 Jan 2012 at 21:44

Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury

Witcher1979 · 9 Jan 2012 at 22:24

ripper24 said:
Trails HD is a good crack
also if you have a kinect then 'Fruit Ninja'

Battle Field 1942 is a very good addictive run and gun, especially when drunk.

Battlefield 1942 is run and gun and you can get it with m$ points?

:rolleyes:

Kinect games on PC?

spudbynight · 10 Jan 2012 at 09:35

voorhees1979 said:
Gears of War on PC is good, with the extra game content.

Is it worth £14.99 now?

spudbynight · 10 Jan 2012 at 09:37

KillBoY_UK said:
Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury

XBOX only.

I need to find Windows stuff....

Witcher1979 · 10 Jan 2012 at 09:59

spudbynight said:
Is it worth £14.99 now?

Well I would not pay £14.99 cash for an old game, but I was given some points so it did not matter to me. But it is a great game, way better then the xbox version. Has the extra brumack or whatever they are called missions. Still active online. It is a hefty price though but so is everything on windows live

spudbynight · 28 Jan 2012 at 11:10

OK - just got Flight Simulator X which is on sale this week for £9.99. That cost 1200 points leaving me with 1800.

I went to buy Gears of War but it came to 1840 points. The smallest number of points you can buy is 500 (which would leave me with 460 afterwards) Is there anyway to pay with points and cash? Can you transfer points to someone else? I just really don't want to be stuck with points I can't use.