The time of the year is around where I get a bit on edge on this thread, because Summer of Arcade brings repeat sales or offers less widely desired content just to steer our buying focus on the XBLA promotion titles. The Gold Memberships a decent number of us pay for seems to be devalued with the majority of weeks of membership discount offers that do not interest us during this period (and maybe some more outside the period). I thought we were off to a great start with XBLA DLC sales having Scott Pilgrim and Clash of Heroes DLC on discount week 1 of Summer of Arcade. Coupled with the Sales & Specials + app, we have gotten a larger variety of offerings of discounts across different formats (DLC, XBLA DLC, XBLA titles, Games on Demand, avatar parts), it appeared as if this year's DotW offerings during Summer of Arcade were poised to be the best since the 2010 Summer of Arcade DotW offerings (a lot of DLC for AssCred2, Borderlands, Forza3, DragonAge:O, Bioshock2). Then we learned this week's and next week's offerings and the discounts on the Sales & Specials + app has underwhelmed (so far this week); not smooth sailings for me.
[quote name='airco']Meh, maybe it was different in other years (it's best if I don't comment on the quality of those games), but this year has pretty much nothing to offer besides two games that we can hope
might be good. Why not just go with the standard "release two games a week" thing that MS usually goes with, so they can give their users more games that they might possibly pay for? Or better yet, why not use the promotional period to release even more than that? If Skullgirls was any indication, games have a tendency to just sit for a while before being released, so MS could use a promotional period to release a bunch of good games at once, therefore giving us a reason to use our 360s, instead of playing Steam games due to their manufactured dry spell.
Yes, agony. WHERE IS THE JSR AND GGXX+ MS THEY WERE ANNOUNCED MONTHS AGO YOU SAID THERE WOULD BE JSR AND GGXX+
Oh well, guess I'll just go back to Ys.[/QUOTE]
Amazing, you enjoy games I enjoy. JSR, GGXX:AC+, and even Ys! I wish Nihon Falcom whould license out the rights again for the Ys Eternal series to be on XBLA, and have the pixel art instead of the poly art. The more recent editions would also benefit with a larger display and higher texture resolutions as well. I can only dream.
As a fan of brawlers, a big fan of
Guardian Heroes back in the day, I know there's still XBLA games I look forward to ^^. At least I will get this (not to be confused with the other game in the franchise that Amazon keeps telling me my preorder has been delayed so many times):
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[quote name='Royal High Knight']I better not find out someone in this thread works for MS, or else............[/QUOTE]
or else, they may catch me constantly complaining on the lack of good sales that interests me =P ... followed by their evil laughter, knowing they torture me on purpose >_< ... and maybe catch me doing the following:
[quote name='rpmboy']Well we can't get
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=325711.[/QUOTE]
Even though I am not in the beta, I block the ads (on the lower right corner of every section) on my dashboard, so I don't get the item either. Blocking the random ads makes it so that I miss out on all the "download and win" or "play and win" notices, and I'd have to check the gamerpics/themes section for those registration items; but if it is one of those interactive ads for avatar parts (like the Windows Phone) I have to completely miss out. [I think I set my router to block rad.msn.com or something like that and my dashboard just replaces the ad with 3 avatars but clicking on it does nothing]. I block just because I feel I pay for Gold, but not to be advertized to.
Well, I guess the Underworld DLC is a new offering for deals, for those who have the game. I had no idea the DLC is 360 exclusive, and I only got the game from PS+ but yet to try the game. Are the DLC worth it (for me to actually purchase the game and the DLC)?
Time is also running out for me to decide on the Live Rewards.
Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 value pack,
Pinball FX 2 Avengers Chronicle, or just not bother. I don't think I've ever seen the costumes for Capcom fighting games ever on sale (aside from the Japanese marketplace), yet it still does feel like a waste of MSP. I haven't been hitting
Pinball FX 2 as much lately and I haven't even gotten to a few tables I bought from the last sale for the tables, and 200MSP back for 800MSP is not too shabby. I do enjoy
Pinball FX 2 though.
Finally good luck to those who participated in this past weekend's cheeve challenge.