Sanic
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I'm gonna try it just in case, thanks.
edit: takes two days to create the account 0_o
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Xbox Live Ultimate Game Sale - Feb26-Mar4 (Press X to switch from cash to MSP)
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I'm gonna try it just in case, thanks.
edit: takes two days to create the account 0_o
Sindou_Hikaru20
Member
2,99 = 480 Points? Yeah, Microsoft -.-
Dark Octave
Banned
I enjoyed it.
I'm not sure how it holds up for hardcore RTS players.
I hated the El Shadai demo, but for $3 would I be a fool to not give it another shot and pass on it?
Nah, fine for me. I just snagged The Darkness for $4.99. Killer game.
Bumblebeetuna
Gold Member
It says 2 days but mine was approved in like 15 minutes so idk.
But idk when they'll add the points to your account. I made my account a couple weeks ago, did the survey for 20 Allards, then did the "buy something on the marketplace!" for 100 Allards. Two weeks later only the 20 point survey reward is showing on the site for me and they are yet to add it to my account.
Diablohead
Member
It's alright, I played it co-op outside of the first 2 levels so can't go by single player performance. IMO multi with friends is the best part of the game by far.
I would say Halo 3. But I also really enjoyed Halo 4.
Best RTS on a console IMO.
MrGreencastle
Member
Definitely picking up Halo 3 at that price. Final good sale because we probably won't be playing any of these on the next box. Still, tons of great deals here, well worth it if you're waiting on some. Halo Wars and Bioshock are really good.
Edit: Hmmm still seems to be listing Halo 3 at $20 on the Canadian marketplace. Hopefully it goes down more to the $10 it was quoted...
Edit: Hmmm still seems to be listing Halo 3 at $20 on the Canadian marketplace. Hopefully it goes down more to the $10 it was quoted...
Fox Mulder
Member
Steam had good sales on everything, while MS has pretty much put all their weekly xbla sales behind the Gold subscriber fence.
The prices and sales for the Games on Demand titles have also been laughable since they started offering them too.
It's not outrageous that people have reservations about jumping into a MS digital market.
MrGreencastle
Member
Yeah, this is the first XBL sale in recent memory that actual feels like a sale and not just temporarily making some titles almost as cheap as they are at retail for a week or so.
MS had a pretty good sale around Christmas/New Years.
Voice of Reason
Banned
And remember the MS Store Black Friday sale? Insane.
Diablohead
Member
That was US only, a shame
Christmas live sale was rather great, would have bought a lot of games then if I did not own them already.
MikeE21286
Member
Even Microsoft forgot how points translate into real money :?
Well, I might buy some of these now. Salty about the fact that my points don't translate correctly.
statham
Member
those are the ones I'm getting with rayman too.
rakkadakka
Member
It's not outrageous at all to have reservations about that. I'm just curious what the Gaffo reaction is going to be if MS continues having these kind of sales.
You just missed it for $35 on Amazon yesterday. The lowest right now is $40 on Gamestop.
statham
Member
Kill Your Masters
Member
Subscribed, thanks for the OP.
So do I understand this correctly, the games listed as 'week long sale' are now determined, the rest of the expected list will be a daily deal?
Is Dirt 2 any good? edit: Or should I get GRID. Need a new fun racer to waste time.
So do I understand this correctly, the games listed as 'week long sale' are now determined, the rest of the expected list will be a daily deal?
Is Dirt 2 any good? edit: Or should I get GRID. Need a new fun racer to waste time.
The Grim Heaper
Member
Wait, did MS actually pull through and have a good sale?
onimushroom
Member
Came here to bitch about the fact that El Shaddai isn't available on the UK store, but seeing as Microsoft's math with the similarly priced Raving Rabbids goes like this:
RAYMAN RAVING RABBIDS (85% off) - $20/1600 > $3/240MSP/UK:£2.69/480MSP... Yeah, eff this nonsense.
Good deals for US customers though!
RAYMAN RAVING RABBIDS (85% off) - $20/1600 > $3/240MSP/UK:£2.69/480MSP... Yeah, eff this nonsense.
Good deals for US customers though!
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Yeah, the rest of the deals will be split up in to Daily Deals. So tomorrow Halo games will go off sale and I could imagine them having, say, all the AC games on sale for the day etc.
Kill Your Masters
Member
Ok thanks for the heads up.
It's a good list, if the prices are good I might snag 3-4 titles I had on my list for quite some time.
they had one of the best sales in video game history during the holiday, so yeah.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
that's a ludicrous exaggeration.
I usually agree with you, but if he's talking about the MS Store BF sale (and compared to other physical product sales), it's not really. Just about every game they had was $10 new (with free shipping, I believe). I personally bought about 15 of them. I'm not aware of a better sale on physical products.
Shalashaska161
Member
Man El Shaddai was a good game. I think it's the last game I spent $60 on and it was totally worth it. Buy it!
Certainly a good sale considering they were physical products and could be traded in for more money than you spent.
chaostrophy
Member
The original price of Rez was $50, on the PS2. It's been 80% off ever since being released on XBL, on top of having vastly improved graphics and sound. A crazy good deal.
MrGreencastle
Member
Yeah Halo 3 is 1360MSP in the Canadian marketplace, looks like a few others are not the correct price, either.
Insane Dead
Member
Major Nelson is aware of the wrong prices so everyone should wait before they buy something. http://majornelson.com/2013/02/26/additional-xbox-live-ultimate-game-sale-items-on-sale/#disqus_thread
He posted this in the comment section on that link. Also this only affects microsoft point prices.
"If you want to purchase the content w/ MSP please be aware that there is currently an issue where the MSP price my not properly display.
They're working on it and should have it fixed later today."
He posted this in the comment section on that link. Also this only affects microsoft point prices.
"If you want to purchase the content w/ MSP please be aware that there is currently an issue where the MSP price my not properly display.
They're working on it and should have it fixed later today."
I'm really hoping that this is the precedent for how Xbox online sales will be from now on. If they truly plan to combat PSN and Steam, they're going to have to offer deals that actually draw purchases. El Shaddai for 3 bucks? Ain't no way I'm turning that down. I might have to get Bioshock 1 too, just because.
Don't believe it's Canadian but how about this one? I never used it personally and stock seems low too.
Yeah Halo 3 is 1360MSP in the Canadian marketplace, looks like a few others are not the correct price, either.
Probably because the Canadian Halo prices aren't $10. They are all showing up as $19.99 for me. Only Halo 4 looks to be the proper price ($39.99)