We all knew it was coming, and today is has been confirmed that Microsoft will soon be charging for a range of pretend clothes with which to adorn your twee little Avatar. Images of the NXE's summer update reveal a whole new Avatar wardrobe, with prices attached.
As you can see from the above image, a Steampunk jacket will cost you 160 Microsoft Moon Dollars. Frankly, that's 160 Moon Dollars too much to play dress up with something that has absolutely zero use to anybody whatsoever, but there are people out there who will buy it. Lots of people.
How about you? Will you be suckered in by the lure of Steampunk and Halo shirts, or are you holding out for 19th Century ruffs?
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8:40 AM on 07.17.2009
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Good job "gamers"
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That's the biggest problem with Microsoft, they promise us the world, but they don't even deliver on half of it, and they fuck up the other half completely. Anymore remember Velocity Girl? What happened to that back in E3 2005? We were promised that people could make, and sell things on the Marketplace. Yeah fucking right, its Microsoft doing all the selling, not us.
This is what makes me think that Project Natal is just a pipe-dream as well, and half the stuff that they faked at E3, will never become a reality either. Microsoft is all smoke, and mirrors when it comes to E3. The faster that people realize that, the better off we'll all be!
With that said, yeah, I'll buy something if I find I like it enough. But I'll be picky.
HELL NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
2. What the fuck is the point of the Avatars anyway? 2 games that allow you to play as them?!
3. I will never, ever buy f'ing clothes to dress up a useless, lifeless ragdoll!
4. Someone will surely buy this shit, because with a bit of advertising (Steampunk, buy, buy, buy!) you can sell anything.
This is bull.
It's still coming. MS is gonna have a few previews going out to select Live members and press. Plus the Marketplace and a ton more dashboard features.
It's gonna come when that big update with Last and Facebook comes.
I'm only using the "awardable" clothing.
sad, but probably true, I think home has made sony about 1.7 million and they did nothing. Seems like MS want a taste of the pie now.
Meh, nevertheless I agree with previous comments. I wish it was literal nickel-and-diming or that was the price of the whole pack. As it stands, that's a total ripoff. I just hope they keep the unlockable clothing.
I think people shouldn't be calling anyone who gets these utterly stupid, though. While I don't support the pricing of this as it stands, I can still see myself getting something from it, ripoff or not. The way I see it, there's going to be a fuckton of ripoff items, and maybe a handful here and there of some bitchin' stuff, like the goggles. Most of the time after buying DLC I have an odd amount of points left, not quite enough for more DLC but more than gamerpics, and to expend them on something other than the trillionth gamer picture pack or just let them rot there for the next DLC purchase that leaves me with even MORE of an odd amount of moon dollars, I may just get one of the aforementioned bitchin' items, as useless as they are. It's sad that Microsoft has such anti-fun rules regarding avatars, or this might actually be cool. Ah well.
....that was much longer that I meant it to be.
Darwin would cry if he could see us now.
If I have anyone on my friends list buying clothes for their avatar, I will immediately remove them from my friends list.
Seriously, chill out people.
I'm so there. >_>
Okay... somebody who obviously only supports xbox (i know what assuming makes) actually you'd be surprised how much people on Home DONT buy. especially the cool cribs that you can arrange yourself and then throw parties at.
hmmm. i guess it's so horrible that MS has this great plan to have a clothes market for the virtual avatars and all Sony can come up with is this dumb MMO where you get to meet other PS3 users and go to the community theatre and watch all sorts of dumb things as well as hang out in the mall and watch those completely unnecessary and uninformational videos that show on the wall there. as well as a completely idiotic virtual bowling alley that you can meet new people or play a game with your friends... no way MS would ever do something as stupid as that right?
in all seriousness and all sarcasm set aside; expect 360 Home to be downloadable next spring.
BTW Epic title FTW :)