5th June 2009, 11:44 PM
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/...atings.ars
So it seems MS is finally allowing what they had already been doing on the original XBox, and we can now buy our content directly, no awkward use of points where you end up paying more money just because you have to buy more points than you actually need to make the purchase due to the "block" setup. Now, if I can just make use of the rest of my points to "zero out" that record, it'll be great! Also, they're allowing users to rate games so that more people see and perhaps buy those little cult classics that are really good but just never seem to get the popularity they should.
So that only leaves Nintendo as the sole user of that idiotic point system. Ante up Nintendo.
So it seems MS is finally allowing what they had already been doing on the original XBox, and we can now buy our content directly, no awkward use of points where you end up paying more money just because you have to buy more points than you actually need to make the purchase due to the "block" setup. Now, if I can just make use of the rest of my points to "zero out" that record, it'll be great! Also, they're allowing users to rate games so that more people see and perhaps buy those little cult classics that are really good but just never seem to get the popularity they should.
So that only leaves Nintendo as the sole user of that idiotic point system. Ante up Nintendo.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)