Yesterday, a couple avatar items on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace were shown as being purchasable via real currency instead of Microsoft Points. Microsoft is quoted insisting:
“This display error doesn’t signal a change in payment options, but rather an error in how the offers were configured in our services which resulted in an inconsistent experience. It is in the process of being resolved.”
This kind of change would effectively put Microsoft in even more direct competition with the Apple and PlayStation stores, seeing as both of the latter currently use real money as currency. Lots of speculation about the Microsoft Points system makes it out to be a greedy scheme, as more often than not, you end up purchasing an amount of points that is impossible to spend in full. This leaves your account with “unused money” sitting in it to stare players in the face whenever they see their account balance. After players see this, it then makes more sense to purchase more points in order to use the points they have, and therefore get the most bang for their buck.
How do you feel about the Microsoft Points system? Would you prefer a real money marketplace?
It was a really huge problem for me because at that time I needed some money because I have been doing all the student life things and as we all knows that students don’t have enough cash in their pockets and that is true but I always wanted to buy a new Call of Duty that were on XBOX as a big hit as my friends mentions. So I found myself getting personal loan here and then I feel so good about getting money it is like I just went to heaven and then this bug happened and my heart explode, that is a true story people all over here.
The prices that they choose are really high!