May 19th 2010 6:26 pm PT

awesome! if this starts happening to games on demand titles.. il b there in a flash!

Cloning Clyde was a game that I really enjoyed, but it seemed like noone else did… Hopefully this will inspire some purchases.

Why you guys don’t lower the prices on DLC and Games that released in 2005-07?

Once overpriced games now at a decent price.

Awesome prices. I highly recommend Braid to anyone who hasn’t tried it, great game.

Well overpriced games like Metal Slug XX will not get my points. With so many great choices in the 400-800 range why waste money. Greedy publishers, we should all boycott games with as 1200 point starting price.

Good stuff, I’ll give Cloning Clyde another look. Writing was on the wall for Braid, being cheaper on all other formats, and NHL Arcade… well the less I say about that the better, I think.
More of this please!

“Awesome prices. I highly recommend Braid to anyone who hasn’t tried it, great game.”

800 points is still $10. I bought Braid when it was $2.50 on Steam.

What do the sales figures show for items that are permanently reduced or on deal of the week? I wonder if you have any PED figures Major?

Need more Arcade Hits.

Cloning Clyde is a really good game.

How long when it’s come to RAY-STORM HD.

I think I may finally pick up CC & Braid

@Stoned1999 You’re a moron. I’ll explain why in as few words as I can. Here we go, Shadow Complex, Braid, Castle Crashers. Not every game is worth less than $15. Done.

Cloning Clyde is definitely worth $5. Fun game!

Cool. I’ve already bought the games from that list that I like, but hopefully we’ll see more older titles (and maybe map packs?) come down in price eventually.

Great news, I’m gonna buy Braid and Cloning Clyde right away!

Good news. I played cloning clyde on my old profile when it first came out, and i thought that it was a pretty fun game from Ninja Bee.

I didn’t like the braid almost 2 years ago when I played the demo. Hopefully my opinion on the game has changed since then and if it has then I will buy it.

@Dedatos games on demand are a rip off the added force unleashed recently,for $30 u can get that new for $15 in almost any store. plus u get resale value out of it (little as any game may be) at least u get a return. GOD ur out that cash.. or points

I still havent bought Braid yet, maybe i should now.

@Shadow0810 You try to make a good point but the games you list have all had discounts.

I’m glad to see these discounts. I will give them all a try and hopefully buy something.

These prices are too low. I’ll wait until they’re at regular price before purchasing. It’s not like I collect interest on the points I hold on to.

For the love of god, I JUST got Braid a few weeks ago.

I like the idea of discounting arcade games permanently.

Oh great, people in a sale thread complaining about where they bought things cheaper.
Hey for everyone who says “I bought it on Steam or a flea market or whatever else”
How’s that game playing on the 360? Really well? No problems?
See that’s the whole point about buying 360 games, they play IN the 36o.
So for people who want to play games on the 360 it doesn’t matter where you can get the games.

I’ll give Cloning Clyde another look too… Already got braid wich at this price is a good choice (even if it was cheaper at steam).
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I also like the idea of games’ prices being permanetly reduced.
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What really flips my wig is how a game like braid is being permanently discounted before older titles like assault heroes 2, exit, marathon, commanders attack…
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I guess braid already sold a certain amount of copies, so number of potential buyers is low and they need a bait to catch the ones that don’t have it already.

Always good to see some long-overdue permanent price reductions like this. Maybe now we’ll see this on some more older XBLA games and DLC too? And yeah with Braid permanently 800 points now, there’s NO excuse not to get that awesome game!

Wow, permanent price drops on XBLA content? I didn’t even know that was possible. Fingers crossed this happens more often!

Also, if Games on Demand ever let a game drop below $20 I bet there would be a lot more impulse purchases of them. $10 is the perfect impulse price.

Sweet will pick up Cloning Clyde next time I get a points card and have some left over. Hopefully you can keep up the trend of marking down some of these older titles.

Please give Cloning Clyde a spin, really fun game, one of the first games I bought on the XBLA space a long time ago…. My son has a lot of fun just messing around(6 years old)

Finally I will get Braid!

Keep doing this kind of discounts Major

@Shadow0810
Only a few games like battlefield 1943, Shadow Complex and Trails HD have been worth 1200MSP, Castle Crashers was fun but its not in the same league as these. I cant comment for Braid as I didnt like the demo and never bought it.

Excellent! I would like to see more of these permanent price reductions in the future!

Cloning Clyde was AWESOME!! Braid was pretty good and NHL was free with the EA promotion over Christmas.

Guess I’ll just have to wait for the next drop and hope there’s something in it I haven’t already got.

I have been waiting for a sale/price drop on Wik for who knows how long. Figured it been out for a sufficient time to justify a price drop.

Although, Braid’s a great game. Go pick it up if you haven’t already. And there are a lot of XBLA games that is worth the 1200 price tag. Sure, 1200 for Metal Slug XX, for someone who’s not a die hard fan of the series, seems expansive. Although its probably the cheapest version of Metal Slug XX/7 you can get your hands on. It’s easy to complain about things you don’t see value in.

Microsoft went outside for some groceries, someone came in and altered the prices. They took the credit.

MS EZ Win back the fans.

I wish I bought it when it was this price >.>
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But the game is good and really fun especially multiplayer

It would be nice to see a similar program for DLC. A Game Add-on hits of sorts.

“We’ve permanently lowered the prices on a few Xbox Arcade games.”

We should hear that more often

Nice… I think this kind of promotion needs to happen permanently. After a year titles should reduce in price.

Major, do you know when the Backbreaker demo is releasing? I know it passed Microsoft certification.

Cloning Clyde is a great game if you take it for what it is.
Braid is an interesting puzzle-platformer
Who cares about NHL 3-on-3?

@dirty whirlwind – Have you considered Xbox LIVE Arcade Unplugged Volume 1? The disc has Wik, Geometry Wars RE, Bejeweled 2, Outpost Kaloki X, Texas Hold ‘Em, and Hardwood Backgammon. It’s pretty easy to find used for less than some of these titles cost on their own.

Hopefully we get a drop on some of the other older games like Bugz and Arkadian Warriors. Maybe drop the price of the Samurai Warriors Xtreme DLC from 2400 to something 1600 or under.

@dirtywhirlwind, you should be able to find the “Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged Vol. 1″ discs (the one with the white cover & thumbnails of 6 games on the front) for less than $5 USD either on eBay or wherever you buy used games. They’re all FULL versions of the games, and contain some great titles … http://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/x/xblarcadeunpluggedvol1/

Av0cad0 & Yukon Cornelius: Thanks for the tip, I was unaware that the Arcade Unplugged disc included Wik. Have seen a few placed carrying it for next to nothing so might have to grab it next time I look around. The thing about having to play it directly from disc is a bit unattractive though, but I guess at the end of day it won’t bother me at all.

Cloning Clyde was a pretty fun game, I wish they would make a sequel to it. hopefully more older Arcade Titles will be discounted also.

3 on 3 is incredible, get it

@wolfzero01 I don’t know if you’ve heard, but there’s a new game coming to XBLA on June 16 called Ancients of Ooga by the same developers (NinjaBee and J Kenworthy Entertainment) that made Cloning Clyde (I work at NinjaBee).

We’ve been calling it a ‘spiritual successor’ to Cloning Clyde because it was inspired by Cloning Clyde and has a lot of similar gameplay mechanics. There’s tons of info, pics and videos on IGN.com.

Wow, Cloning Clyde at that price is a steal (one of the few games I have 100% achievements on)

Christ, Cloning Clyde was released in 2006 and it’s taken four years for the price to be reduced. All content that old needs to be made free or put at a bargain basement price, it’s not like anyone’s buying anyway.

I love how people want other people to not get paid for their stuff “hey this should be free”
Of course if you ask them to work for free they’d think you were a maniac.

Asking for everything 4+ years old for free is a little overkill. Discounting older items on a regular basis will provide the game a lot of free publicity to people who might not have had an xbox360 four years ago. The price reduction will also give plenty of incentive for an impulse buy or at the very least download to demo to give it a shot.
Take NINJAGUY01′s comment for example, Ninja Bee is releasing a new game on June 16th, 2010. Cloning Clyde is how old? The whole POINT to most of our complaints about prices on this forum is because this is digital distribution. AKA: ENDLESS SUPPLY OF PRODUCT. The warehouse will not run out stock. The machine shop does not run out of material. After breaking even, they could sell this at a $1 and everyone still makes a profit(extreme example, but you know damn well what I mean).
The overhead to maintain a supply of digital copies of Cloning Clyde games available on XBLA is laughable to a company of Microsoft’s solvency. There is no reason not discount the older XBLA arcade games, especially the craptacular ones! Bionic Commando was what, twenty bucks a month and half after its initial release and MSRP of $60? Sixty to twenty bucks just like that. Mostly because it sucked, but I can think of plenty so-so games on XBLA that were released in 2009 that I would probably buy at a cheaper price. Same goes with the ridiculously expensive avatar marketplace priced for people with money trees.
This could turn into a entire tirade about our responsibilities as consumerists and the profit margins of XBLA titles sold for Microsoft. But I will say that this, right here, this permanent discounting of older XBLA titles is a step in the direction of the wonderful light of supply & demand balance in this here virtual world of the internetz. Oh, and STEAM will be waiting for us there.

And isn’t that another benefit of GoD, when you want a copy there’s ALWAYS one availible.