In today's wacky episode of That's Our Microsoft, the company introduced Lode Runner to Xbox Live Arcade at 800 Microsoft Points, a full 400 Points lower than people had expected. Unfortunately, it turns out that Microsoft had made a balls up of things once again, and has since altered the price to 1200 Points. D'aaaawr, that's our Microsoft!
"If you got it at 800 points, you're lucky," is all Major Nelson can say with the news that Microsoft upped the price a day after releasing it. As one can expect, the Xbox Live community is not happy at all, especially as a number of them were singing XBLA's praises for such an unexpected and welcome low price. Thankfully, Microsoft acted quickly to stamp out any rumors of generosity.
Once again I should point out that before Braid and Castle Crashers, this game would most likely have been released at 800 Points and stayed there. I'm still a little disgusted that MS held its best games to ransom like that, and now thinks it can get away with charging 1200 Points for anything it sees fit. Nonsense like this Lode Runner fiasco just exposes the farce of MS Points even more.
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4:20 PM on 04.23.2009 | 
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Hah. You rich bastard.
What a load of shit, it should've at least been 800 for the entire day. Or it should be next week's "Deal of the Week", cause the deals now are so terrible.
@Naim
1200 points is $15. Your not knowing the actual amount is the deception that MS trades in. The less consumers are aware of what they're spending, the less it "feels" like it actually costs.
MS should make good on this and drop the price down for the week and let people who were going to buy at 800 have that chance. Otherwise, Lode Runner's gonna just sit there stagnating until it goes on sale.
I hope Amazon.com's Arcade store continues selling games at periodic discounts. Hell, they should open up an Amazon-PSN store while they're at it and do the same for that.
I can see only R-Type Dimensions as being 1200 because it's 2 games in one, switching between HD and old school graphics, and online play.
Everything else (besides Lode Runner) is pure shit. I agree, I hope Amazon has this on sale soon.
XBLA games used to be $5 or $10--perfect impulse buys. Now there is a constant barrage of garbage $10 titles and the rare gem that will cost you $15. I'm not cheap--I have well over 40 retail 360 games, but I have flatly refused to purchase a single XBLA game over 800 points. It's a shame, I was actually looking forward to playing this game.
That's just lame.
Oh, and Lode Runner isn't even CLOSE to worth the upped price.
Lode Runner isn't worth 1200....I'm sure sales will prove that real soon. I guess I can go ahead and get Bionic Commando for 800