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http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PZGHSFGVWRCKXEKQ4UQFBC4G5I Dwayne

Australia Here… So No mortal kombat deal and two crappy arcade items i
wouldn’t pay 50 points for… Sorry if it seems negative, But after the
great start (bastion) i have hurt feelings…

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XOTBJKUR4IW74YLQH2LHQTE2BU Kairu

hmmm. No offence, but whatever team is in charge of these ‘deals’ really needs to take a leaf out of Steam’s book.

The dashboard is riddled with ads and we pay for gold, so it’s not like you can’t afford to take a loss on deals for once. Two of the ‘deals’ so far have been on offer several times this year, so please put something new on offer.

Steam’s free, ad free, and offers the best deals and a greater variety. Yeah Xbox has; Youtube, Facebook and all these apps. But you can get them free on your PC aswell.

Raphael Hooper Braga

Well said…
Anonymous

Agreed. Steam makes me want to got back to PC gaming. PS3 / Steam integration for Portal 2 opened my eyes to what I had been missing. As soon as I’m done with my Xbox backlog, I’m bootcamping windows and going back to PC. Cheaper games, free online, better resolutions… the writing is on the walls. Too bad Steam doesn’t have more Mac games.
http://twitter.com/Navarin Bennijin Turbo

Indeed, and apparently these apps are a gold privilege… privileges I barely use.

http://twitter.com/PrestonNorthLad David Casey

Pay for Xbox Gold – get up to half price games.
Pay for PSN – get free games.

Come on.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Jan-Vaclavik/100000506187042 Jan Václavík

Unless they changed the rules recently, you dont get any free games, as those games are not yours. You are just renting those games. Once your PSN+ subscription ends, you can kiss all those “free” games goodbye.
- Lee Rayson
  
  gotta love how people seem to believe paying for PSN+ is giving you free games it more like an long term rental
  - Rob adams
    
    Yeah, I pay £10 a month to Boomerang and get “free” games
  - http://twitter.com/Navarin Bennijin Turbo
    
    PSN+ does give you better special offers than PSN already offers though.
    But in fairness you’re spending more money to spend less money…
    
    Also these deals aren’t even Gold-only.
- Michael Gilliam
  
  Since I generally play a game and then move on, I fail to see where this is a problem. Once a game is completed, there is normally very little compelling me to go back to it. There are a few exceptions to that rule, but they are rare and worth paying for.
  
  The apps are nice, but I bought the system to play games.
- Anonymous
  
  I think they occasionally give out games that you can keep (very rarely but I believe it has happened) but in general, yes, I agree. If I’m paying to get those “free” games, I expect to get to keep them.
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M2GAI5UEWQPOI6L4UIKE3VSYC4 Lucan
    
    Yeah, when things f-up.

Anonymous

If only I had MK …

http://www.facebook.com/people/Jan-Vaclavik/100000506187042 Jan Václavík

Todays deals are pretty bad.
You should throw in more titles. Even some_old_stuff_no-one_would_buy would make the deals look better. You are having fighting game deals, why not throw in MvC2, Soulcalibur, Street Fighter II HF or something? Having 5+ games on sale would look that much better.

http://profiles.google.com/harrypottersdaddy Harry Potter

After the horrendous black friday xbox live deals, I thought there was no way future deals could get any worse. I guess I’m mistaken.

Anonymous

That’s what I was waiting for! Was hoping the MK characters would go on sale. Thanks!

http://twitter.com/ENich1 E.Nich

ONLY Deadliest Warrior as a stand alone game? REALLY? It would be great to offer more fighting games in days like these. Anyways, I guess it’s good for people who own MK9.

http://twitter.com/mightyfiregoat mighty goat

Pass. nothing so far has made me spend cash on points & its looking like that’s not going to change anytime soon. if there is a massive christmas eve/day blowout on xbla games then I might be tempted or I might just stick with my f2p games on pc and buy extra content for well supported games. Imo ALL xbla games are over priced when compared to the pc versions. we get sub par versions of games that have all support killed in the first few months of release while the pc versions end up having double the content for a lower price. when is Microsoft going to stop hindering the progress of xbla tittles & start pleasing the xbla gaming community?!?!? more support + more content + lower prices + more sales = more money & happy gamers!! Microsoft you need to set the benchmark for digital gaming and stop being the donkey running with horses!!!!!!!!

http://twitter.com/AntaraelDulacre Antarael Dulacre

As I said before none of the Items available in Germnay so NO deal today at all…thx…and the leaked list appears to be right….so yeah can save all my points for other deals…maybe dotw next week will have some…but I doubt it..2011 was a terrible deal year…(speaking of dotw deals not the special sales)

http://twitter.com/ENich1 E.Nich

I’ve recently got a Xbox 360, so I don’t know the rest of the year, but dotw of last week (japan finest) was very good imo.

http://twitter.com/xserd13 Xserd Ultima

You call these a deal?

http://twitter.com/xserd13 Xserd Ultima

You call these a deal?

http://www.facebook.com/TheRealDarthBrady Daniel Brady

Once Again… LAME. Steam is soooo stomping on your sad excuse for an Holiday sale, and they will get my money instead. Go to Steam Store page and see for yourselves.

http://twitter.com/CAPP360 Brian

You cant really compare a gaming giant like Steam who cares about gamers to a company whose only concern is the bottom line.

http://twitter.com/mightyfiregoat mighty goat

if the “leaked list of deals” is true then Ms really won’t be getting my money. most of the deals are for dlc and getting a reduction only on dlc is not a good deal in my eyes. what about all the people who don’t own & have no interest in owning those games? if kinect fruit ninja or whatever is really the christmas day deal thats pathetic!!! 2012 for me is looking like the year I really will be giving up on the 360. it really isn’t “the gamers console”. funny

Hugoku

Well, this debunks the supposedly “leaked” list.

Although I was expecting SF III, it gives me hope that some Bastion-caliber stuff will show up in the coming days.

Season pass deals though? I guess it is great for those that are interested in those games.
I would certainly jump on the GoW3 season pass, although I would be upset that it gets a discount so soon, If I had already bought it.

In fact, I would never expect them to be on sale.

http://twitter.com/AntaraelDulacre Antarael Dulacre

No it doesn’t…
1. SF III was announced for tomorrow…todays deal wasn’t listed and I can think of why…since it was posted on german news sites first, we don’t get any of the deals here because none of the items are available on the german marketplace….for today we got nothing…
- Hugoku
  
  That’s what I get for not paying attention! It indeed skipped a day. So YAY for SFIII!
  
  You don’t get the Deadliest Warrior deals either?
  - http://twitter.com/AntaraelDulacre Antarael Dulacre
    
    Yep if the list stands correct…SF3 tomorrow…
    
    And nope neither of the deals are on the marketplace…nor is the first deadly warrior, duke nukem, doom, dead rising contents and arcade games, crackdown, ninja gaiden, the first two gears games etc etc…germany sucks gamewise…
Anonymous

Or MS changed it up a bit just so the list could be debunked.

http://twitter.com/VforVashaw Austin Vashaw

Awesome, I’ve been waiting for a drop on the overpriced MK pack. Thanks!

http://twitter.com/MKTheory John Doe

$5 per character is overpriced? Even when the Season Pass deal gives you four characters for the price of three? Oh lawdy lawl!

http://twitter.com/VforVashaw Austin Vashaw

Awesome, I’ve been waiting for a drop on the overpriced MK pack. Thanks!

http://thetjhzone.blogspot.com Tylerh1701

Really hope it’s not Street Fighter tonight, why not lump that game in with these ones? (Fighting games)

Anyways, we shall see. I need me some Toy Soldiers: Cold War discounts!!!

CyberSkull

The only daily deal that has impressed me so far is for Bastion, and I already bought it when it came out.

http://www.facebook.com/anthony.dangelo Anthony D’Angelo

Same here!

http://twitter.com/JRish923 Rishi Maharban

Ummmm these 12 days of deals simply put SUCK….

http://twitter.com/MKTheory John Doe

Out of all Fighting games you guys picked the Shittiest Warrior. A game that plays like it should be in the Indie section. And why only two Fighting games? No SoulCalibur? No MvC2 for the hundredth time?
Fire whoever is doing these deals and let me run circles around this company.
Here, I’ll give you an idea free of charge (assuming the leak is not true).
Redeem yourselves by making a “Beat ‘em Up” theme.

Castle Crashers, D&D Daggerdale, Dishwasher, Dishwasher VS, Final Fight Double Impact, Turtles In Time RS, TMNT Arcade, Scott Pilgrim VS The World, Unbound Saga, X-Men.
I know I’m missing a few more of old school gems but that’s a start…and I promise you’ll have more appreciated consumers than disappointed ones.
But what do I know? I’m just a Gamer.

I really hope the leaked list is not true, I would hate to believe that Microsoft is this stupid to have a lackluster Fighting Game theme while leaving out Street Fighter III for tomorrow or any time soon for that matter.

http://twitter.com/MezD92 Mike

Why would they rediscount games that has already been on DOTW like 3 weeks ago? Turtles in Time RS has been removed off the marketplace months ago.

http://twitter.com/MezD92 Mike

Why couldn’t you guys make each MK character a discount? I just want Freddy

http://twitter.com/Navarin Bennijin Turbo

Fantastic deal on all four MK DLC characters, just because you’re not interested in MK doesn’t make this deal bad. Potentially the best fighter of 2011.

At least DLC for an XBLA game is also going sale like we’ve been asking for. Even if the game sucks, it’s a start.

http://twitter.com/mightyfiregoat mighty goat

I have a fantastic idea for a deal!!!! a patch and new texas heat seasons for full house poker! yeah you know that game!!! its the one 1 vs 100 got slaughtered for & the one Ms tried to label as the new “social game” on xbl. Ms can’t even support their own games so there isn’t any hope >_>

http://twitter.com/mightyfiregoat mighty goat

and the season pass IS THE CHARACTER PACK not the online pass that people are claiming it is.

http://twitter.com/mightyfiregoat mighty goat

Pass. nothing so far has made me spend cash on points & its looking like that’s not going to change anytime soon. if there is a massive christmas eve/day blowout on xbla games then I might be tempted or I might just stick with my f2p games on pc and buy extra content for well supported games. Imo ALL xbla games are over priced when compared to the pc versions. we get sub par versions of games that have all support killed in the first few months of release while the pc versions end up having double the content for a lower price. when is Microsoft going to stop hindering the progress of xbla tittles & start pleasing the xbla gaming community?!?!? more support + more content + lower prices + more sales = more money & happy gamers!! Microsoft you need to set the benchmark for digital gaming and stop being the donkey running with horses!!!!!!!

Anonymous

Yeah – was thinking about Portal but then I saw it on Steam for $2.49. It’s $5 now which works out to about $5.09 Canadian. 400 MS American points is about $5. The same 400 points in Canada costs $6.20. Oh wait, but Portal is 600 points which is $9.20. I took my $4 and bought myself a Happy Meal because MS makes me so friggin sad sometimes.
Anonymous

The only thing I caught in your incoherent rambling is that youre a cheap ba stard. The only thing I would say to that is get in line.
- http://twitter.com/mightyfiregoat mighty goat
  
  *insert troll face/u mad gif
- http://thetjhzone.blogspot.com Tylerh1701
  
  I’m very impressed that you read any of his incoherent rambling. I barely made it through the first sentence.
- Anonymous
  
  We officially have a Mortal Kombat fanboy. Putting down on the Internet is easy to do, putting up with fanboy dribble and company clones are hard things to swallow. Cheers.
http://profiles.google.com/harrypottersdaddy Harry Potter

You actually make some good points.
- Anonymous
  
  not really…….
Anonymous

Kim Kardashian got a big old donkey back there.

Anonymous

I never understand a sale price on a game released a while ago as far as any season pass. Why isn’t the pass just permanently discounted? In two years are you going to have sales on MW3 stuff like that?

Anonymous

Mortal kombats season pass has only been out for several months, what are you talking about?
- http://twitter.com/spartannhilator Zak Hayer
  
  yeah several months is… “awhile ago”…
  - Anonymous
    
    For a sale sure, not a permanent discount.
    - http://twitter.com/spartannhilator Zak Hayer
      
      your a crak baby re-read the comments and u’ll realize you slowly faded into nonsense…
- Anonymous
  
  That is an eternity with this sort of thing. By the way, I was mainly talking just about the fact that MK is now an OLD game. The way fighting games go, they will have MK DX soon as fighting games in general are so piss poor and such a low ceiling as far as what is expected.
  - Anonymous
    
    Im sorry, I lost you halfway through your comment.
- Anonymous
  
  That is an eternity in the gaming world. What are you talking about? I really mean that.

http://twitter.com/Enigma777 Dan

Pass

Anonymous

the only people on the world that call one game and one DLC a deal is Microsoft, oder site like steam have like 20 games discounts, PS3 Blog have like 6 games and tons of DLC, MICROSOFT = RIDICULES

http://thetjhzone.blogspot.com Tylerh1701

PS Blog deals are for a whole week, these are daily deals.
- Anonymous
  
  yeah but ps3 deals are almost every 2-3 weeks full year thas the different

Anonymous

I hope we get some of these: Dungeon Defenders, Iron Brigade, Orcs Must Die, Resi 4, Resi Code Veronica X, Toy Soldiers Cold War, Crimson Alliance, Half-Minute Hero, Guardian Heroes, DeathSmiles2 X (which is Christmas themed).
That are only few examples of the games, which GAMERS would love to see with reduced prices around Christmas.

Sadly, we probably won’t get any of these. :’(

http://profiles.google.com/harrypottersdaddy Harry Potter

It would take a Christmas miracle for those games to go on sale at a decent price.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6NARP2QGJMMWM66IDSR5JWHF2Y Shane

I was about to purchase some microsoft points for Deadliest Warrior, but the full game is not available on the New Zealand Marketplace. The trial is there and so is the DLC??

Anonymous

No clue, I would kind of pass as anything not in the USA is kind of off the Xbox radar. That sucks, hope it is taken care of as your country is beautiful to mankind.

http://twitter.com/AntaraelDulacre Antarael Dulacre

Street Fighter 3 just got a discount…so the leaked list is accurate…damn it -.-

Anonymous

Which means Xbox “loop” AKA Xbox 720 is guaranteed a 2013 Holiday release. Though, if MS really wants my money they can take it in 2012.

Search “MS_Nerd Rhythm” on Google.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XOTBJKUR4IW74YLQH2LHQTE2BU Kairu
  
  So much for the Kinect extending the life span of the 360. I’m not buying a new xbox yet, especially when some devs are half-arsing their work now. Dead island anyone?

Anonymous

……..???

Anonymous

Sorry about what?

Anonymous

Where is Major? Not on his blog comments as usual. Hurray, MS.

http://www.majornelson.com Major Nelson

I’m right here. What can I do for ya?
http://www.majornelson.com Major Nelson

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December 23rd 2011 1:00 am PT

Xbox 12 Days Of Deals: Day 4

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