26th November 2006, 5:13 PM
Ah yes, it seems that Nintendo has this point thing down. How annoying... Well, as it stands it appears that every single game that would normally cost less than $10 now, effectively, costs $10. All I want is Bonk's Adventure really (as I don't have it), but I'm not about to be essentially forced to pay more than it's listed at. If there was something else that evened it out that I also wanted which used the exact amount I'd have left over, yeah no problem, but as it stands? No way.
Then there's MS's Zune which also uses Disney fun bucks to make stuff effectively more expensive than it is.
Oh yeah, I've heard that apparently this system is getting popular because it avoids credit card charges. Don't ask me how, as you still have to use that card each time you buy points. Further, I use a debit card anyway that doesn't even have a cost to use, so it doesn't affect me. Really it just ends up annoying. I wish these companies would stop this nonsense and just give us an actual price. I mean the point cost does directly translate into American dollery doos, so I don't see how that would be a problem. If they don't want to dispense with the stupid point thing, at least let us do a direct buy and you can do a cute little conversion of money directly into exactly the point cost of the item before our eyes, like a little show or something, if that's what makes you feel good. Just don't do this. It's stupid. MS had it right with the original XBox Live price listings. Apple's got it right with their iPod store. Why did everyone have to screw it up after that?
Then there's MS's Zune which also uses Disney fun bucks to make stuff effectively more expensive than it is.
Oh yeah, I've heard that apparently this system is getting popular because it avoids credit card charges. Don't ask me how, as you still have to use that card each time you buy points. Further, I use a debit card anyway that doesn't even have a cost to use, so it doesn't affect me. Really it just ends up annoying. I wish these companies would stop this nonsense and just give us an actual price. I mean the point cost does directly translate into American dollery doos, so I don't see how that would be a problem. If they don't want to dispense with the stupid point thing, at least let us do a direct buy and you can do a cute little conversion of money directly into exactly the point cost of the item before our eyes, like a little show or something, if that's what makes you feel good. Just don't do this. It's stupid. MS had it right with the original XBox Live price listings. Apple's got it right with their iPod store. Why did everyone have to screw it up after that?
"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)