Good old Microsoft. Just as it hiked up the price of most "top tier" XBLA games to 1200 Microsoft Points, it reveals the 800 MS Point card. Yes, that would have been handy six months ago.
The 800 Point card is priced as $9.99, and I suppose it will be handy for Community Games, once Destructoid has found all the good ones for you. Outside of that though, I can only see this as Microsoft giving you a giftwrapped present, only to open it up and find a hairy poo inside. One of those poos squirted out after someone has swallowed a load of bubblegum, so it's slightly off-color and extra stringy.
Seriously though, the fact that most big XBLA games are 1200 Points now is bullsh*t, and something I warned people about when Microsoft tested the waters with Braid and Castle Crashers. The 'Soft knows that it can get away with these charges now, which is why everything is 1200 points.
If you want proof, just looke at Banjo-Kazooie versus Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. An N64 game versus a PSX game. One is 1200 Points on XBLA, one is 800 Points. One is post-Braid, one is pre-Braid. You know damn well that Castlevania would have been 1200 Points in a post-Braid XBLA. And that, my friends, is stringy bubblegum poo.
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1:33 PM on 12.19.2008
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@Jim Sterling: add me on PSN, please (I sent a request)
Anyway did I mention that Germany also still does not have Community Games?
God dammit Microsoft get your heads out of your asses and release those damn things already.
I'm looking at you Boris Schneider-Johne. You are the goddam product manager for Germany and I definately expect more from you that just being "in my Xbox" about once in a week.
Once the price is close to or above 20 I want something tangible. But whatever, I buy tons of digital stuff on the PS3, 360 and my PC..I'm just impatient. SOTN is so awesome.
But yeah, I have no problem paying $15 for a quality game, like Braid, or Banjo Kazooie, or stillwaitingforapatch Castle Crashers. We all got a deal with 800 point Castlevania SOTN. I think we should hold the rioting until they start trying to charge $15 for Dig Dug, or God forbid, Space Giraffe.
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Well, that's what i'm going to tell myself anyway when I go to purchase Banjo for the second time on XBLA.. *cries a bit*
Also I remember when xbla games were 400 points a pop ! 400! And from what I remember we were all being ultra tight bastards back then too. Also the only thing those 800 cards are gonna be good for is DLC which seems to be holding steady for the most part at 800 points, and in somecases worth it.