Oh God, the Great Avatar Debate. The Avatar Marketplace hit Xbox 360 early last week and there has been a very special debate going on ever since. One that deals with whether or not it's reasonable to buy clothes for your digital avatar with these so-called "Micro-Transactions."
I'm not really sure you can consider $4.00 a Micro-Transaction, considering around 1/4th of Arcade games are $1.00 more, and those at least come with game play and achievements. Well, most of them, anyway; I'm looking at you Interpol.
Some say buying clothes is the same as buying anything else online or digitally (Music, Movies, Games). I have to reiterate my stance earlier and say with music: you can listen, with movies: you can watch, with games: you can play, but with avatar clothing purchased on the marketplace: you can hope people like what you look like. What I mean is, if you want somebody to know you wear Adidas clothing, why should you have to pay for the real clothing, and then purchase it digitally? Adidas should be covering the charges for the advertising that's incurring because of it.
Now, I'm not saying everything on the Avatar Marketplace is unreasonable. I'm sure there will be an item that is a must-have for me no matter what the price (Assassin's Creed Robe), but that hasn't happened yet. Until then, I will be saving my Microsoft points for some excellent arcade games and over-priced DLC.
The Game Styles section in the Avatar Marketplace on the other hand is the prime example of what Microsoft should be doing with the Avatar Awards. Instead of charging $12 for a Clone Wars outfit, light saber and all, they could have put those resources into the next Star Wars game, for example.
Who knows, maybe Assassin's Creed 2 will be attached with a full-body outfit. Then again, maybe we'll get some white shoes awards and have to buy the outfit for $15.00, hood not included.
In the words of a good friend, "For every $1.00 you spend on avatar clothes, donate the same to a child in need." - Stallion83
Friday, August 21, 2009
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2 Comments:
Good blog post, i liked your interesting word choices.
haha. Omega, Rand, and I made your ears bleed that day. Sorry about that man. 1up for the blog.
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