NXE update preview program
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After the Fat Princess pricing ruckus, where people were trumpetting the fairness of MS's points system, I was scratching my head a second just there. How can it cost more in some regions than others? And now I see it's because, yeah the points prices are about the same, give or take, rounded to local denominations, but someone's had the audacity to actually charge more points for the same titles!
How on earth did they come up with those Viva Pinata prices?? Do they really think the UK has a far higher demand for the game which affords a higher price to maximise revenue?
How on earth did they come up with those Viva Pinata prices?? Do they really think the UK has a far higher demand for the game which affords a higher price to maximise revenue?
I've always wondered about this, but doesn't the UK price include a (rather hefty) value added tax? The US prices are exclusive of federal income tax, state income tax, state sales tax, local income tax, local sales tax, local property tax, etc.
If I take my income, subtract 28% in federal income tax and 6% in state income tax, then add 5% in state sales tax, the price of a $29.99 game just went up to $47.71. And that's not even including all taxes...
These delays are something I don't understand. My dashboard has seemed to get much, much slower the more I've used my 360. Just playing content I've already got takes a long time, as the blasted thing insists on loading related items from Marketplace before activating the "play" button. I thought that the new dashboard was supposed to fix this, but it sure hasn't for me. (I just upgraded last night.)
This is not an attempt to make this into a PS3 vs. 360 comparison, but I remember that the Playstation Store used to be gawd-awful slow compared to Marketplace, but then Sony redesigned the Store and it's really snappy now, while my Marketplace crawls on a 16 mbps connection. I hope MS will be able to speed things up soon.
Probably no help to you, but I've heard that if you have an arcade with built-in memory, copying your profile to the built-in MU will give you performance gains.
I don't have the problem anymore. It went away. Not sure why. Everything is fast now.
Haven't seen or heard anything other than user-generated tracks for Rock Band. I'm just glad they're getting their own stores seperate from Add-Ons since everytime I go there the newest arrivals are always full of Rock Band or Guitar Hero tracks. Crowds out the non-music games.
Tommy McClain
Here's mine...
Games: 649 items
Game Demos: 585 items
Videos: 99 items
Avatars: 1 items
You only got 570 more items in your history than I do. LOL
Tommy McClain
The PayPal feature went live this evening...
Major Nelson said:
Go here to add your PayPal account to your Xbox account...
https://www.xbox.com/accounts
Tommy McClain
EDIT: I added my account. Pretty simple. Not sure if it's any better than having my debit card associated with it. Some people might prefer it. Wished they offered you a discount for using it.
Don't have PayPal? If you did, then that would be ideal since it can only be used to buy MS Points.
Tommy McClain
RancidLunchmeat
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I thought I already wrote this but maybe not... I think we're experiencing the beta part of the upgrade. Sometimes it is BLAZING fast and other times it is so slow it doesn't even load the icons infront of the avatars on the friends list and other times its so slow it doesnt even load the avatars for a couple of minutes.
Too bad too, because I like watching Nav play with his warthog
Too bad too, because I like watching Nav play with his warthog
Sometimes it is BLAZING fast and other times it is so slow.
Too bad too, because I like watching Nav play with his warthog
I don't have much of a game history, but there were times it was slow for me as well.
I too was watching Nav drive his warthog around this evening.
Did anyone get disconnected from XBL tonight, around 11:05 pm EST? A coworker and I were hitting up thenew Dark Corner's Horde when we were both disconnected. We're both in the NXE Preview but have different internet providers.
Hm, actually, that's true. Maybe I'll give it a shot.
I don't have much of a game history, but there were times it was slow for me as well.
I too was watching Nav drive his warthog around this evening.
Did anyone get disconnected from XBL tonight, around 11:05 pm EST? A coworker and I were hitting up thenew Dark Corner's Horde when we were both disconnected. We're both in the NXE Preview but have different internet providers.
Yes but I am now connected again.
RancidLunchmeat
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I got disconnected tonight as well, about 8:30 PST or so. Tried to get back in later to download the batman demo but it wouldn't connect at all.
15%. A $30 tax-free list price translates to ~£18. Add 15% VAT and that's ~£20. Microsofts 2400 points is $30, £20, so that's about right. As I noticed later, the problem is that regional pricing has price-hiked a couple of titles.
Off topic, apologies in advance:
Ahh...so your VAT is actually quite reasonable. (I suppose it depends on your definition of reasonable.) I thought it was higher, because in the US we occasionally hear about proposals to replace the income tax with a VAT, which would then have to be in the ~40% range. Of course, I see that you have an income tax as well, so I'm not complaining...
Have you had a chance to look into getting a Live card like off of Amazon? For 6 years I have been doing the auto renewal and decided to jump on the deals at Amazon and got 12+1 months, PGR4, 360 Key pad all for $50
i did the same.... had renewed automatically on a credit card linked to my account for years and then bought that deal with the text pad, PGR, extra months... pretty sweet! I'll be looking for those deals from now on.
as NavNuc said, it used to be hard to remove CCs but they added an easy, remove or change, edit feature for all your linked accounts at Xbox.com.
Yeah, I mostly got burned slightly when I didn't bother to replace my expiring credit card (as I was going to stick to silver for a while) only to then find out that I couldn't even log into my silver account, since MS said I owed them money. Solved with a phonecall, but bitter misanthropes like me that's painful.
