May 4th 2009 9:48 am PT

This game should be 400-600 points max.

A 7 year old Xbox1 game , eh yeah 400 sounds about right.

OMG Microsoft you fail and should just give up!!!!!!

At least it’s an actual deal this week. Not some EA crap

worth it but no for me major sorry your not geting my money this week.. i wish you guy would low the cost of crack down DLC already so i can pick that up..

Am I the only one who is thinking that MS are actually trying to annoy its userbase with these so called ‘deals of the week’. It’s like they actually want us to hate them. I love my 360 and wouldn’t swap it for anything but MS you really need to fire the people in charge of these promotions.

I would LOVE to see the sales numbers from the past few weeks worth of “deals”…the only one I picked up, during this whole promotion, was the Penny Arcade one. I really think senote is on the right track and some Sony spy has infiltrated MS marketing. This theory, at least, would explain the complete loss of common sense. Next week’s deal? I predict a 10% discount on Horse Armor!

800 points no deal to me.sorry

Ya, these deals are seriously lacking. And you really do have to wonder what the point is of some of these deals. Reminds me of a weird version of the failblog “specials”. you know the ones where it says original price $10, now on sale for $35 (savings of -$25). Wonder if failblog would accept screenshot submissions of these deals of the week.

Those deal of the wEAk seems more like a “sold-out because it sucks too much”.
Come on, there are plenty of contents or full games that would sold by trucks in their prices were lowered, like, per exemple, every XBLA titles which are sold more than 800 just to let us think that buying it when it’s a deal of the week at -33% is a bargain, except that it should have been the price from the begining.
The pricing is no more coherent, selling N64 titles on Virtual Console 10$/€ is already too much, and you sell them for 15$ ????
I’m waiting for the “Sonic the Hedgehog 3″ price to confirm the new Marketplace philosophy, because both Sonic 1 & 2 were 400, if Sonic 3 is more expensive, then we will have the ultimate proof you are treated us like milking cows. I can’t wait.

You really have to go to 3 or 4 items a week for sales. If I saw something interesting at a reasonable price (at least 33% off) every week, I might buy something every week. Isn’t that the point of sales, to get people to buy?
Perhaps you’ve noticed there is a recession going on and OTHER retailers are offering deep discounts on a wide variety of products.

Quick check on ebay and there are many completed listings for Wrath of Cortex for under £4 including delivery. Why bother when you can pick up a boxed copy…

A bad game for a bad price. I bought the PS2 version a couple months back (I actually like Crash Bandicoot, especially the Warped! game) and frankly, it sucks. Uneven difficulty curve, boring “been there, done that” level design and simply NOT FUN. For 800 MSP, there are a TON of more interesting arcade games up.

So, what’s the “deal” again?

not for me, as my 360 has broken down. after 14 months it has stopped outputting any video, but this is apparantly not covered by any extended warranty. i now have two broken xbox 360s which microsoft will not replace.

Crash Bandicoot game I think this deal will, well……..Crash.

Crash and Burn on this deal?

yea yea I know, just having fun

Hey it could be worse. The DOTW could have been L4D Survivor Pack for 400 points.

WoW!

It seems like they only try to make a deal on games and addons that most dont want to earn some quick buck.

HEY MICROSOFT TAKE A HINT. LOOK AT VALVE! Their Weekend deals are absolutely fantastic and have many many times forced me to impulse buy something that I didn’t really need or even consider buying until I saw the price. Look at last weeks. Left 4 Dead for 24 bucks. That’s an insane deal on a very new game! Take a cue from them and watch the profit roll in guys.

how come the deals of the week are usually games that suck, ones that most people already have, or like this one, ones that if you search on the internet can find a cheaper copy

speaking of the XBOX originals, any idea if Beyond Good & Evil, Def Jam Fight For NY, or Strangers Wrath will ever make the list?

Why is it that Steam get their “Weekend deals” right, yet MS get their “Deal of the week” so, so wrong?

1200pts is a silly price to be charging for XB-originals.
My local gamestop had a box of unboxed XBOs for 3Euro (Buy one get one free)

I could pick up Max Payne 1+2 for 3Euro, or could spend 30Euro for a digital download version.

Give the consumers an incentive to purchase MS. Incentive, not a feeling of being short-changed.

No deal.

Not for me this week.

only problem I had with wrath of cortex was the super annoyingly long loading screens. the rest of the game wasn’t all that bad.

being a silver member this stuff doesn’t affect me in any way, but i see why people would complain…

you pay $15 for a $5 game. on top of that, you have all the “no hard copy” issues along with the game being tied to a single console.

i like how the psp does downloadable games. the game files can be downloaded and saved to a computer, which can then be burned to disc for backup. you can’t do that with content you get on the xbox 360. I haven’t tried with ps3 demos and i don’t own any download-only ps3 games. that’s the way to do dlg (downloadable games), though.

only problem I had with wrath of cortex was the super annoyingly long loading screens. the rest of the game wasn’t all that bad.

being a silver member this stuff doesn’t affect me in any way, but i see why people would complain…

you pay $15 for a $5 game. on top of that, you have all the “no hard copy” issues along with the game being tied to a single console.

i like how the psp does downloadable games. the game files can be downloaded and saved to a computer, which can then be burned to disc for backup. you can’t do that with content you get on the xbox 360. I haven’t tried with ps3 demos and i don’t own any download-only ps3 games. that’s the way to do dlg (downloadable games), though.

Yay, the game that began Crash’s era or crappy games! (aside from CTR and Crash Bash, but you can’t expect much from non-Nintendo sports/party spin-offs anyway…)

I’m gonna have to pass on this one…yet another horrible deal. MS, listen to the consumer and stop discounting crap that nobody wants to start with!

Yeah! This week I will save $10 bucks because I won’t be buying this crap!

This is pitiful, really. Seriously, just stop if you guys can’t do any better than this.

Hint: try something that people might actually have wanted in the first place, but never got for whatever reason.

Old GoW or CoD map packs, any of the song packs for any of the music games, expansions for open-world games like Oblivion and Crackdown… stuff for actually relevant games that people would actually buy.

Not some game that I could get for $5 at Gamestop.

I’d quite like to get this, because I enjoyed it when I had it first time round on the original Xbox. Unfortunately it wont work on my xbox. The game doesn’t support Pal 60 according to wikipedia. Most original xbox games will just crash for me. Is there nothing that microsoft can do via a dashboard update to make them work?

I think MS are trying to get onto Failblog or something

I would love to see 50% off all Guitar Hero DLC.

Microsoft seriously needs to call up Valve and learn how to do a deal properly.

You know, I think they actually got close this time.
http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=19545
So, it is not “bad”, but since the 360 isn’t TRULY bc, this ends up in the pile of who cares. Also, this is how much originals should always be anyway. $15 is just stupid.

We’ll that’s weird. I was actually thinking about getting this the other day because I love the PS1 Crash games. I might buy it now.

Yeah, Microsoft really needs to consider beefing up these deals. The only one that caught my attention so far was Halo for 600 points, which I picked up even though that’s about the price these Xbox Originals should START at.

Hey Major, how about reading some of these comments?

If you do, read this:

Are you guys, just like Hollywood, RUNNING OUT OF IDEAS?

Because it seems either that or you guys don’t have a clue of what people would actually want. Christ.

With all this commotion about the mostly stingy deals of the week, it would probably be better Microsoft just regularly and permentently discounted their old content so not to anger their usebase. Alienating customers will only hurt them in the long run.

Or how about this? The entire Marketplace goes 33% off.

Marketplace has been going downhill for a while now. I think Microsoft need to restaff the marketing and pricing department. They seem to forget Live Marketplace isn’t the only online outlet gamers can buy games and DLC. As if charging for items in pretend Microsoft money wasn’t bad enough.

Here we go again! something the consumers want PLEASE

@ wolfzero01: Xbox Originals only come from games already on the BC list, so if it’s not on that list (which MS has already said is final), you won’t see it as an Xbox Original.
And to those asking about why they don’t have the Crackdown Gettin’ Busy pack discounted, they already had it on sale in their weekend Black Friday sale about 5 months ago for 500 points, so they probably won’t have it on sale again anytime soon. http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/11/26/xbox-live-marketplace-black-friday-sale.aspx

I got this game for free with my Original Xbox over five years ago and still felt short-changed.

MS isn’t gonna be dumb and offer something at 25%-33% off that people are going to buy at full price, plain and simple.

Gold members are already paying money for DLC and online multiplayer that should be free; I’m sure some will find reason to rebuy a game at an overpriced ‘deal’, too….

Obviously MS shouldn’t put the new GoW 2 map packs on a sale, but they need to find a happy medium of things that will sell. Note to MS – I will buy just about any decent XBLA game that is discounted (cmon Wits and Wagers)!

MS needs to take a clue from Steam. They post actual deals. Like last week you could get the Orange Box for $10. That come with TF2, HL2, Ep1 & Ep2 and Portal. All of that for $10. MS tries to pass a 10 year old game for $10 as a deal.

JOKE!!!

At least it isn’t lame EA Sports addons that only have a 15% discount.

Gears 1 maps, CoD2 maps, song packs for GH3. Stuff for games that used to be the most popular, but have since been replaced with sequels. Since many people have those games, they’d probably be willing to buy the content for cheaper and dig out the game to play it.

I know I would.

Likewise, just because something was discounted once, six months ago, doesn’t automatically make it unable to be discounted again.

This is so retarded. These Deals of the Week are no deals at all. When will they get it right?

@ Mr Barrel Roll: If you were referring to my comment, I never said that they would never discounted it again. But they are a lot less likely to do it again since they’ll probably assume that most of the people that want it would already have gotten it, especially with a game that old.

Fair enough, but you get my point — better to put discounts for content from older games that people might already own, instead of ‘Generic EA Sports Game 2008.’ Or something like this, that, let’s face it, most people never were interested in in the first place, and won’t be any more interested with a promotion like this.

If I suddenly saw a discount for some of the GH packs or CoD2 maps, I would happily dig out those game discs to play those again. And give MS my money while doing so. Just take a look back at what used to be popular, since people are likely to own those but don’t play them any more, and discount stuff there.

I lol’d, you are funny, Major.

I’ve NEVER bought anything from a marketplace ‘Deal of the week’. Honestly, it’s never worth it. I mean if I saw some thing like some GoW2 or Fallout 3 DLC %33 off, I’d buy it in a heart beat. Too bad I already have all of the GoW2 DLC though :s.

this is brutallllllllll

i agree with everyone on this thread, the deals suck. stuff is overpriced on xbl in a recession.

go thru my gs, ive dropped a lot on xbl, but im on strike now major.

no more ms points till something interesting happens (never)

whoopie do. yawn.

what about halo 2 and games that actually sold well.

Rather than crap ?

Remember that Twitter event were they said they’d listen to our comments. Seeing as they don’t read these posts and reply, I doubt we’ll see much come out of M$ from the Twitter event. Sad and when I thought Microsoft was actually listening to consumers. I really think that Twitter event was a way for them to test their new Twitter/presentation software and we LIVE members were guinea pigs. Sad and pitiful.

Microsoft has yet to release a statement about the Lode Runner pricing either.

33% off really just does not feel like a “Deal of the Week”.

I snatched up the Braid DotW and the CoD4 map pack DotW because those felt like actual deals. I believe each of those was at least 50% off. 33% off of an already overpriced old Xbox game is not a great deal. I can get this game at a local store used for much cheaper than the ‘deal’ price.

@StaticFree

Nope, Braid was 1200 -> 800 Microsoft Points (33% off) just like this one:
http://majornelson.com/archive/2009/02/22/the-return-of-the-deal-of-the-week.aspx

I don’t even remember any CoD4 map pack deals for the Deal of the Week, but when the program first started, they had the Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack available for 400 points instead of 600 (again 33%):
http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/12/01/xbox-live-marketplace-holiday-deal-of-the-week.aspx

Now there have been deals that were more than 33% off. Penny Arcade Episode 1 was 800 points one week as opposed to its normal price of 1600, and Alien Hominid HD was 400 points instead of 800 another week, making both of those 50% off, but 33% seems to be more within the normal range.

On a side note, I bought both of the aforementioned 50% off deals even though I still have yet to play them. Hopefully I’ll get around to doing that soon. I’ve heard they’re good.

Still too expensive. I enjoyed that game though.

anyone know of a reliable source that gives a calender or some preview of coming deals of the week? i mean, if i knew what were the deals for, say, a month, i would know that everything sucks for the month (which most of it has) and spend my points on some other arcade game that i’ve been wanting, but saving my points for when it goes on sale. their profits would rise for sure off of people like me who are very frugal about spending their money, especially in this economy. wake up MS! quit being greedy/derka!