When gamers get frustrated with paying high prices for multiple live downloades for game add ons we often blame the companies making the games for being greedy and keeping prices high but that is just not the whole truth. The main problem is that Microsoft demands a sizeable chunk of each and every download because downloads are a business not a service to benefit gamers as in customer service versus sales.
This will likely never change but greed is still greed. For instance we already are faced with high prices for the avatar marketplace items. If Microsoft and in the same way XBOX had any sense the avatar items would be on average 20-80 pts. This way all gamers will buy items and likely as a result gamers will download dozens of items which in turn benefits the live community in that the avatars will truly become more an expression of the gamer and not just the bare minimum of what each gamer found cool and affordable. Gamers could really create some wild avatar looks if we were all able to get are hands on larger amounts of items.
For instance the live commnity should have seen a Holloween costume avatar creation competition with new avatar items and prizes for gamers that really pulled of amazing creations.
Which is the point behind the avatars in the first place right? Aren't we all suppossed to take them at least marginally seriously in that other gamers do get a first impression of who the gamer is behind the avatar that they have created? Get serious Microsoft and loose the vice of greed and also sloth. Don't be lazy or afraid to serve the community of live gamers well. The gamers on live are much more a community that PS3's awful service. The gamer is best served by getting the most for their money which keeps everyone happy. Stop taking advantage of our gamer fandom just to charge the same 560 pts for a game avatar item that you do for game add on downloads. How is it fair to charge the same for these as if they are of equal work put into there creation. Point is a game is played more and contains more depth than an avatar item. Does no one listen to good analogy when they hear them. Let me remind us all of one from Ron White. "I walked into the sunglass hut and saw a nice pair of shades and asked the salesman how much? He said $385 and i replied, How do you sleep at night, he said you just don't get it. I said yea well let me try, I mean i just bought a color 32" television that decodes a signal from space and puts a picture on the screen in the highest quality possible for $285. And you want me to pay more for the shades? It think i get it. The he told me that the shades get basic cable and i felt like a shithead."
Alright joking aside the analogy is good. There is more technology and cost to create game downloads than there is for some avatar item. (PS> lets hope that when all is said and done gamers at least get a x-mas bonus this year. Even if its another holiday theme for the dashboard is all we get. It would be nice to say thank you to the gamers that fund your operations, eh, Microsft. ????)
This will likely never change but greed is still greed. For instance we already are faced with high prices for the avatar marketplace items. If Microsoft and in the same way XBOX had any sense the avatar items would be on average 20-80 pts. This way all gamers will buy items and likely as a result gamers will download dozens of items which in turn benefits the live community in that the avatars will truly become more an expression of the gamer and not just the bare minimum of what each gamer found cool and affordable. Gamers could really create some wild avatar looks if we were all able to get are hands on larger amounts of items.
For instance the live commnity should have seen a Holloween costume avatar creation competition with new avatar items and prizes for gamers that really pulled of amazing creations.
Which is the point behind the avatars in the first place right? Aren't we all suppossed to take them at least marginally seriously in that other gamers do get a first impression of who the gamer is behind the avatar that they have created? Get serious Microsoft and loose the vice of greed and also sloth. Don't be lazy or afraid to serve the community of live gamers well. The gamers on live are much more a community that PS3's awful service. The gamer is best served by getting the most for their money which keeps everyone happy. Stop taking advantage of our gamer fandom just to charge the same 560 pts for a game avatar item that you do for game add on downloads. How is it fair to charge the same for these as if they are of equal work put into there creation. Point is a game is played more and contains more depth than an avatar item. Does no one listen to good analogy when they hear them. Let me remind us all of one from Ron White. "I walked into the sunglass hut and saw a nice pair of shades and asked the salesman how much? He said $385 and i replied, How do you sleep at night, he said you just don't get it. I said yea well let me try, I mean i just bought a color 32" television that decodes a signal from space and puts a picture on the screen in the highest quality possible for $285. And you want me to pay more for the shades? It think i get it. The he told me that the shades get basic cable and i felt like a shithead."
Alright joking aside the analogy is good. There is more technology and cost to create game downloads than there is for some avatar item. (PS> lets hope that when all is said and done gamers at least get a x-mas bonus this year. Even if its another holiday theme for the dashboard is all we get. It would be nice to say thank you to the gamers that fund your operations, eh, Microsft. ????)
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