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Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot, right as you leave the starting gate.
Maybe they should replace the frontpage of the store with a giant red ring of death!
Why aren't those downloadable?? Well, the 360 games at least.
ha ha!
Why would you buy a 360 game in the first place? ZING!
Besides L4D that is ;)
*Does the Team Fortress 2's Engineer Dance*
forgot to mention...FAIL
And to think I was considering getting a copy of office home/student for it. Jesus christ, Newegg and Amazon charge around $80 plus free shipping, and MS Marketplace charges retail price ($149) with $8 on top? Such failure.
It's still a step above Nintendo's own online store. Barely. You can get anything you want directly from them, as long as it's Nintendo Power, a Player's Guide, or a part for a system (not a "I'm going to go inside this thing and fix a problem myself" part, mind you--more along the lines of battery covers).
I like Vista... :\
Shipping is the least of my concern - Cutting out the middleman and still ripping people off for retail msrp + shipping is. They'll prob charge extra $20 shipping for release date delivery. It's a sad day if people support this. No thanks! I rather travel 2km to my local Walmart and buy it for $59.97 (2 cents savings) and support the student paying for school.
At least you have the option of buying games from them, even is the shipping sucks. It always baffled me why Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo wouldn't give you the option to buy straight from their stores if you're browsing for something else at the same time. Now they just have to make the shipping reasonable...
Probably avoiding real competition is part of their deals with retail. Not really uncommon, is it?
Free shipping from Amazon FTW
Ugh.
I love how these publishers are trying to offer more direct routes to buy from them but utterly refuse to offer competitive prices.
yes lets all goto the Microsoft store and get ripped off!
MicroSoft = Massive failure
Nintendo fails more Jim. Much more. Microsoft still fails at this though
Come on everyone, it's M$ we're talking about here. Failure is their middle name. Why so surprised?
I wish companies would be a little better over all this online purchase stuff, MS dropped the ball here.
I pre-ordered L4D on STEAM for $45, awesome right!? No, not really....
It was in US funds and after the conversion into Canadian on my CC I paid a bit more than what I could have picked it up in town for. I had no idea that it was charging me US through the entire purchase process untill I looked at my CC bill.
At least Microsoft's ExpertZone still has free shipping...
But they took Gears off the list just before Gears 2 came out. >.> Probably afraid the hype for 2 would actually encourage people to finally pick up their cheap copy of Gears.
*Grumble*
Is this [name] what was supposed to compete w/Vista or's that unreleased? Out of the 3 console companies Microsoft has by far done the best. It constantly seems to be making moves. Sony's done the worse by poisoning the exclusives it could please us w/the taste of.
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