CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Yes, they are in the process of fixing it, it seems.
Some £8.99 games are now down to £6.99.
Some £8.99 games are now down to £6.99.
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So they are going up but to the nearest .99?
You know what this spells for the games on demand store for xbox one tho, hope they learn from the issue.
Steverulez
Member
Its not the sort of thing they should be getting wrong in the first place. But I am glad they are fixing it. I hope its in line with what it currently is. Then I can go and buy some points to celebrate.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
So 800 pts games will now be £6.99 and it looks like 400 pts games will now be £3.49.
Haven't seen any 1200pts/£11.99 games that have switched yet.
Haven't seen any 1200pts/£11.99 games that have switched yet.
DONE
so you think
400 points (£3.40) games are now £3.49
800 points (£6.80) games are now £6.99
1200 points (£10.40) games are now £10.49
1600 points (£13.60) games are now at £13.99
Seems fair
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Seems like it'll be around there, Gowans.
But they will expire a year after conversion, right?
Udham
Member
From India, apologies if posted before.
I'm not on beta but people are reporting that 800 points game now cost 40% more than what they used to.
Earlier:
800 MSPOINT = 544 RS.
Now:
Now the same 800 points game will cost = 760 RS.
However, this is very uneven pricing since 1200 points game will cost 940 RS, roughly 15% more than the earlier pricing.
Notably, 9.99$ games on Indian PSN cost 480 RS. We gonna be PSnation soon. ;p
I'm not on beta but people are reporting that 800 points game now cost 40% more than what they used to.
Earlier:
800 MSPOINT = 544 RS.
Now:
Now the same 800 points game will cost = 760 RS.
However, this is very uneven pricing since 1200 points game will cost 940 RS, roughly 15% more than the earlier pricing.
Notably, 9.99$ games on Indian PSN cost 480 RS. We gonna be PSnation soon. ;p
John Caboose
Member
No idea. I would guess ~3-6 weeks. Basing that on nothing but a gut feeling.
Try to read this and other threads on currency-specific info on how the MSP transition will affect you. Don't want to break NDA with specifics.
Sucks because I redeemed the bulk of mine already, and may not get a One for myself for some time or at all. I stand to lose a ton of points. It's nonsense they would wipe out already redeemed points from your account that weren't even promo points.
Miles Quaritch
Member
They have addressed both cases. It's actually 2 years for converted points, and never for money added later:
Iced_Eagle
Member
Not sure if this was posted, but MS has told Joystiq that the higher prices were an error, and anyone affected will be refunded the difference.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/10/xbox-live-beta-experiencing-incorrect-pricing-in-select-regions/
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/10/xbox-live-beta-experiencing-incorrect-pricing-in-select-regions/
Macho Madness
Member
Now we know why there's an NDA.
gutter_trash
Banned
it was the case for PSN games in Canada being cheaper than their XBLA counterparts because of the Spacebucks points on Xbox
KittyKittyBangBang
Member
Exactly, getting MS Point cards are sale is literally free money, I wish they would have kept the points, but understand why they did it.
also, the update took a while to download, so if you get in, go make a sandwich while the update installs
Miles Quaritch
Member
Two years is decent enough. Might even have a One by then....
YES! I had a feeling this might be the case, but was starting to lose hope as other regions starting to chime in about their price conversions.
Miles Quaritch
Member
I wouldn't say it's fair in the purest sense of the word since prices have seeimingly risen, albeit by 0.09p, but at least we're not getting screwed over as hard as we were a couple of days ago.
It's a beta test, for crying out loud. It's supposed to make things wrong that get fixed afterwards.
Miles Quaritch
Member
It's possible, but at the same time I wouldn't be surprised if there was an element of let's see what happens when the bump the prices to compensate for the currency rate differences.
Steverulez
Member
Its a beta test, you expect bugs, glitches. Surely all the prices were basically "Convert 400pts to this value, 800 to this" - its such a basic thing and they should have checked it before they released. I don't consider it to be a technical thing.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
I've got the final prices:
400 point games are now £3.49
800 point games are now £6.99
1200 point games are now £9.99
1600 point games are now £13.49
400 point games are now £3.49
800 point games are now £6.99
1200 point games are now £9.99
1600 point games are now £13.49
That's decent, a few pennys more and few less
TEST.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Much better. Not happy about the slight bump, but at least it's not a £1 - £2 difference.
mangochutney
Member
Exactly, it would have gone through many stages before reaching this point.
They would 100% have not blindly released the beta to everyone without going through a rigorous internal QA process first.
It should also go through a pre-QA stage where the stakeholders go through the release to confirm they are happy with how their requested features and changes have been executed etc.
This beta is more about finding edge cases and odd scenarios not glaring errors like incorrect pricing or that major functionality is not working as intended.
They could give a big QA team 4 months on it and they wouldn't find stuff that people will find during this test, because everyone has different console revisions and all manor of different things installed on their console and an internal QA team would be hard pushed to go through all permutations and that's why they do these betas.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
They've fixed it so you'll get about the same.
IdreamofHIME
Member
It's that what they were before more or less? I know I was buying 1200 cards from GAME for £10.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Give or take a few pence, it's pretty much the same as before.
Nealand Liquor
Member
What I'm wondering is what is the point of allowing the converted points to expire? Why?
Hell I could be wrong, but the expiring points seems to be one of those cases where a company makes a change then pushes through an additional policy that benefits nobody other than themself. I really think with all the bad press MS has received lately, pushing through a policy that doesn't benefit their customers and that will in all likelyhood give them free money, is a horrible move. Sure I had $23.00 in points converted and I will spend them in two years, but that doesn't change the fact that, afaik, there is no good reason to enforce points/money to expire.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Probably just some dumb accounting thing.
Indeed, those original prices were too nice and round to be automated, especially when the system that calculates the points conversion doesn't round it up either.
It's still annoying that they have now made it so you are going to be left with pennis on your account which you will never use up.
Miles Quaritch
Member
So this is interesting,
I redeemed 240 points on the tenth to double check the conversion rate and it now says those points/currency will expire....
I thought only points initially converted where pegged to expire?
I redeemed 240 points on the tenth to double check the conversion rate and it now says those points/currency will expire....
I thought only points initially converted where pegged to expire?
John Caboose
Member
I now retract this advice.