Xbox 360 Consumables! (It starts...)

[A Black Falcon]

Well, in the specific case of those PC games, it's not nearly so bad because the micropayments are in lieu of having to pay $50 for the box and then $10-$15 for a monthly fee, in most of the games that have them... for what MS is talking about here though, yeah, dumb. Most online gaming companies do NOT encourage the sale of game money for real money for a reason, it can easily destroy a game's economy... though that only matters for persistent world games; for other ones, it's just a money-grabbing operation for the game operator. :)