darth los
27-Jan-2010, 06:27 PM
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6247722.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;4
There's Definitely sound legal reasoning here. How can a company offer a service and then not offer a way to pay for it or atleast give you your change back?
I mean you don"t go to McDonald's, order a #3, slip the cashier a twenty and get no change back and then when you ask for it they tell you that you will not be recieving any change, however you can use what's left towards a future purchase, but for all intents and purposes that twenty is now the property of MS.
So not only are they securing a current sale but ensuring a future one as well because if you don't use it with them it can't be used at all. There's something wrong with that.
MS are greedy bastards anyway, engaging in practices like charging for dlc that should be free and incidents like this one. Not good business people.
Here's a comment left by someone which does a good job of explaining it.
This lawsuit definitely has merit. If all I want to buy is a map pack, I should be able to do so without investing a single penny beyond what it costs (in actual dollars). With the points system, I have to spend approximately 7-8 dollars (600 points) on something that costs 5 dollars (400 points), and then I lose the additional value if I don't buy anything else; it doesn't matter if there's stuff available for 200 points or less, I don't want it, and Microsoft effectively makes you buy other products to utilize the points you've bought. And yes, I realize I can save those points for other map packs, but more often than not, I have to spend more money to buy more points, and I always have an overrage after that transaction, and so the cycle continues. Imagine if your local Best Buy charged you 22.75 for a DVD and you gave them $25.00 cash, and instead of giving you change, they said they would hold onto it for your next purchase. They can't do that, and neither can Microsoft.
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There's Definitely sound legal reasoning here. How can a company offer a service and then not offer a way to pay for it or atleast give you your change back?
I mean you don"t go to McDonald's, order a #3, slip the cashier a twenty and get no change back and then when you ask for it they tell you that you will not be recieving any change, however you can use what's left towards a future purchase, but for all intents and purposes that twenty is now the property of MS.
So not only are they securing a current sale but ensuring a future one as well because if you don't use it with them it can't be used at all. There's something wrong with that.
MS are greedy bastards anyway, engaging in practices like charging for dlc that should be free and incidents like this one. Not good business people.
Here's a comment left by someone which does a good job of explaining it.
This lawsuit definitely has merit. If all I want to buy is a map pack, I should be able to do so without investing a single penny beyond what it costs (in actual dollars). With the points system, I have to spend approximately 7-8 dollars (600 points) on something that costs 5 dollars (400 points), and then I lose the additional value if I don't buy anything else; it doesn't matter if there's stuff available for 200 points or less, I don't want it, and Microsoft effectively makes you buy other products to utilize the points you've bought. And yes, I realize I can save those points for other map packs, but more often than not, I have to spend more money to buy more points, and I always have an overrage after that transaction, and so the cycle continues. Imagine if your local Best Buy charged you 22.75 for a DVD and you gave them $25.00 cash, and instead of giving you change, they said they would hold onto it for your next purchase. They can't do that, and neither can Microsoft.
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