July 27th 2010 1:03 pm PT

Absolutely. The sports games with constant upgrades every year seems like a waste to put on G.O.D. Who’s actually buying SvsR 2008?!

If you’re going to release bad games and especially two of the same at least lower the price of some of the existing games on the market place.

I can’t tell you how long I’ve waited for Oblivion’s price to drop to $20.

LOTR: Conquest = Epic Fail. It says on the product page: “Online Multiplayer 2-16″. This is simply a lie as EA has shut down the servers for multiplayer month ago. MS be aware as at least in Germany this would be sufficient to get into serious trouble the German law.

Overpriced shut down Multiplayer Game and more useless sportgames..yay…

Seriously what was the point of G.O.D.? As i said before…you can get ANY game on disc for lower prices…plus most of them are just not worth buying…

@ fuzzyGURU

dude thanks for the info!! I rented this and didn’t like it, but I was not on LIVE yet and figured I didn’t like it cause it seemed like it was made for online play. I actually have this in my que to download……..going to cancel it right now. What’s the point of having achievements in a game if you can’t get them?!?! FAIL!

after the brilliant Star Wars Battlefield 1 and 2,i was really looking forward to Pandemic’s LOTR:Conquest..got it on day one,however i can’t think of a bigger disappointment this gen than that title

why would one buy old & overpriced games (30€ = 38,74$… are you out of your mind?)
i really hope M$ is losing money

Hmm, well what can I say Major? You’ve just had 15 guys give you the correct public opinion about Game on Demand and for free! Personally I’d say fire your Market Research guys you pay a large paycheck to and continue to listen to your public, experienced gamers. So far basically nothing has been brought to Games on Demand that warrents the cost, I’d maybe pay that price for a newly released game but not some old stuff that I can get a physical version for less. Personally I’d ditch the project and spend more time bringing demos and add-on packs or do a dual release with a multiplatform new game and gather some realistic data that way!

@Hypershot; Tempting (nice link), I do love a RPG and played the original on the Master System and was curious when this came out for the 360 (in 2006!) but was put off by the addition monthly fee for the online play, or have they removed that recently? I may drag the demo of the marketplace to try this one.

Just repeating earlier sentiments, this is a truly terrible offering much like nearly every other month. I can’t believe you are filling your servers with GBs of these game images – does anyone actually download and pay for some of these titles?

I agree with comments that your marketing team have somewhat of a disconnect with the gaming community with these overpriced and uninteresting titles.

Uploading a title like LOTR with shut down servers is poor form – I’m going off comments here as I don’t know the truth. But if that is the case, that is exceptionally dire to even pass off a title for sale in such a way.

Larry,

Can we get an answer to the question of why all the Games on Demand titles are so old and overpriced? Its an entirely digital product, and the titles are usually 1+ years old, yet we are still charged high prices for them. I can go out to the shops and buy a boxed title for £9.99 brand new, sealed with awesome artwork that I can put out on a shelf and collect. These ondemand titles lack all of this and yet we are still treated to £20 titles that are years old. For instance this Lord of the Rings game even has broken multiplayer now due to the servers being shut off, why was this title ok’d? This seems very ‘money grabbing corporation’ and like Microsoft are trying to squeeze every last penny out of titles. Microsoft and Xbox generally have the better image amongst the consoles as being more gamer focused, be offering us dead old titles at higher prices, it just comes off as amateurish and pushes us away more than you’d expect. I’d love to log on and find a title thats a few years old available for £7.99 rather than £19.99!

I seriously thought this was a joke list…Guess not. Wow, what a bunch of old, unplayable, overpriced crap. Who in their right mind would even fathom charging someone $30 for a digital download of a game(Smackdown 09) that people can buy for $10 at Gamestop? Overall, the games on demand is a joke. A few are same price as used copies(GTA IV, Burnout Paradise and Revenge, and Bioshock) and one is a few bucks cheaper than a used copy(Mass Effect is $24.99 used right now)but other than that, the rest are overpriced big time(COD4 is $29.99 G.O.D. but $14.99 used) Don’t even get me started on the Xbox originals at $15 a pop when they can easily be found used for less than $10 and in some cases less than $5. Get a clue.

Yes I would like to know what Microsoft is thinking when they chose these games

Pass.

real smart releasing a game the has multiplayer only you can’t play it with EA shutting the servers down. while there may have been a few decent games released, Games on Demand is a joke

Very disappointed they are selling a game where the servers are shutdown. It means I’m going to double-check everything I buy.

Why do they even have the older games there? Where is 2010?

@CARGO, BEST COMMENT EVER!!

Major Nelson only gives the info whats on G.O.D . The publishers (Ea,ubisoft) makes the prices.

I’m with the majority here. These titles are very overpriced.Plus you really need to update the LOTR:Conquest page to acurately reflect that it no longer supports any live features thanks to EA shutting down the servers. If I bought it from Games on Demand I would be expecting a refund.