View Full Version : Lumines Live to require multiple purchases
asphix
08-25-2006, 12:48 PM
Hrmm, I was really looking forward to Lumines Live.. this might make me boycott the game just due to the principle behind this absurd scheme.
The initial game purchase is 1200 points ($15). Then you have two additioanl packs you can opt to purchase as you work your way through the game. One for 400 pts (allows you to play more single player missions) and one for 300 pts (allows you to proceed further when playing a CPU online).
Neither of them are needed... but it just rubs me the wrong way. I'd rather them just charge $25 for the full game and thats that, with an option of the stripped down version for $15. This scheme just makes things confusing, and the fact that you cant buy them straight out, but have to have them offered while playing through the game is annoyingly chaotic in its delivery.
Maybe I'll just buy the base game, but I'd have rather just had the option to spend $25 bucks and have a full version.. I cant help but think that a system this convoluted isnt giving me "options" but instead is trying to swindle me blind.
What do you all think?
Source = Opposable Thumbs (http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2006/8/25/5108)
ugh! I think its too much in the first place, eh maybe if it was 1200 for everything i could see it being viable, but ugh! I'm not happy with it either, but I guess I have to give them a bit of good faith after getting texas hold em for free.
KilloWertz
08-25-2006, 03:04 PM
I think the price is just fine (it was more expensive on the PSP when it first came out), even adding on the extra 700 points. My problem is how they are doing this though also. Why not just have it all in one package? I would still buy it even if it was 1900 points. OXM could have been wrong (Gamespot thinks they might be), but it wouldn't surprise me if it happened. This process makes little sense, so it is possible these are just add-ons like Gamespot thinks. In the end though, I'll still buy it because it's a really good game, it's still cheaper than a regular game, and it's hard to pass up a high quality game from the Arcade when some of the recent ones have been busts.
RandomHero
08-27-2006, 05:51 PM
It is probably due to the complaints MS get of expensive items on the Marketplace. Their solution? Split expensive items into smaller packages.
Maybe they will adopt the idea of having a basic version and a 'premium' version, that way players who know they want the full game can just pay in one go, and those trying it out can just get the cheaper one and have the chance to upgrade.
MS must be losing it.
microsoft just wants more cash
hot chief DSO
09-05-2006, 09:04 PM
probably because they have to pay sony?
i love this game on psp... i do very well... but it gives me an occular migrain:/
asphix
09-06-2006, 07:26 AM
I dont think they pay Sony... I dont think Sony was involved with the development or publishing of the title on the PsP.. though I admit I dont know who did, so I could be mistaken.
I think its just an experimentation. Either way, I'll be downloading it later tonight or tomorrow :-D
If anyone wants to go head to head send me an FR and we'll give it a go!
VballChick PMS
09-06-2006, 07:38 AM
wow! thats bootleg
KilloWertz
09-06-2006, 06:13 PM
I dont think they pay Sony... I dont think Sony was involved with the development or publishing of the title on the PsP.. though I admit I dont know who did, so I could be mistaken.
I think its just an experimentation. Either way, I'll be downloading it later tonight or tomorrow :-D
If anyone wants to go head to head send me an FR and we'll give it a go!
Ubisoft published the PSP version. Sony had nothing to do with the game besides it being on their system.
The way they are making you pay for the game won't stop me from getting it either. No release date has been announced for the game yet though.
Morrowind
09-06-2006, 06:28 PM
Good, now this will only be for the rich. w00t w00t. Lumine$ Live 4 Life!
asphix
09-07-2006, 07:12 AM
It had been announced (though possibly not officially) as Sept 6th.... but I guess that got pulled?
source (http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2006/8/7/4901)
Other sites reported the same, but thats the first one I had off hand.
KilloWertz
09-07-2006, 03:54 PM
It had been announced (though possibly not officially) as Sept 6th.... but I guess that got pulled?
source (http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2006/8/7/4901)
Other sites reported the same, but thats the first one I had off hand.
Yeah, it was, but I think that was all part of that unofficial release list for the next wave of Xbox Live Arcade Wednesdays before Microsoft released their own official list. I would assume it will be released soon though because it was reviewed in the last issue of OXM.
Sir Tequila
09-07-2006, 09:31 PM
Um. MS isn't losing it. The developers decide the points in most cases. Which would mean Q! Entertainment in this case.