Wow please allow me to whip out my cloak and wizard cap...  This deal sucks.

yep this deal is lame.

So much for another Arcade Game =(

LOL!

More like "deal of the weak" to me...

i will get this, good deal in my opinion, won't go down with americans very well as you play football with your hands :D

How about some more Arcade discounts?

And You could have a permanent markdown of say 50% on all the Arcade games and DLC older than a year!

Definetly think old content, a year or two old should have some kind of discount.

The arcade hits section hasn't been updated in ages.

Major, although the "deal of the week"-program is a nice initiative, whoever chooses these deals should start thinking in new ways. I think that most people would be interested in sharp (>= 50%) discounts on arcade games, not DLC (and if you do choose DLC, then choose contents for a recently released and _popular_ game).

Oh, and unless you guys have already read it:

"Valve: Left 4 Dead Half-price Sale Saw 3000% Increase, Beat Launch Numbers"

Source: www.shacknews.com/.../57308

yep this deal is lame.How about some more Arcade discounts?

And You could have a permanent markdown of say 50% on all the Arcade games and DLC older than a year!

I think you be looking at permanent price reductions for some of the older content (2 years old) as well as a deal of week for newer 1 year old stuff.

Major - could we have some more Arcade hits please? Some more reductions on XBLA games to 400 would be very welcome! I get bored of seeing Mortal Kombat 3 and Worms on the list all the time!!!

I'm somewhat thankful for this DOTW. Sports games don't interest me at all, for the most part, so I get to pocket my money this week.

this deal sucks, how many people have bought FIFA 09, if you are going to do stuff like this, how about adding an arcade game also

Major, "Ultimate" is misspelled...  :)

Also, not a good deal.  Well, not for everyone, anyway.  I agree with Brookster.  Thanks anyway, Major.  On the plus side, at least the download is 2GB, unlike some of the 128KB "DLC" out there.  ;)

Not a good deal should. Would have considered if it was for 200 points. Arcade game would be worth for this price.

Not interested at all.

I agree too the "deal of the week" should focus on actual Arcade games, not minor add-ons that nobody care.

See you next week...

(btw, any news for the western release date of Bubble Bubble? I was eagerly waiting for it...)

Deal of the week would more be something new what is in it's first week 50% off for the fast buyers, like this with fifa all people who want it has it allready and EA never worked good out, to less Contracts for players & staff, every time losing them becouse there where no contracts in the packeges

I have FIFA 09 but this Ultimate Team thing never interested me. Regardless, it's 50% off an expansion to a constant Top 10 LIVE Activity game, how can that be a bad deal?  

Worst deal yet.

"the FIFA 09 Ulitimate Team game add-on is the lastest Deal of the Week at 400 points"

Does that mean it's both the last and latest at 400 points? ;)

Incredibly lame

Weak deal...

Well Major, since you have responded for the first time our comments complaints on the Deal of the Week, I'll elaborate further:

First of all, thanks for passing our comments along. That's really nice.

The reason why we are frustrated is that, well, Deal of the Week is, as a gold exclusive, something premium. We really feel exclusive when we get Ikaruga, a very nice game, for half of the price. $10 is a fair price for Ikaruga, and $5 is just too much of a bargain to resist.

Or when we get Braid, one of the finest games released last year, for $10. You can't get that anywhere else. At the time of the Deal, Braid was $15 for everyone in the planet, except for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. That's a deal.

Now, whenever I access your site on Mondays and see that we, exclusive paying costumers, are getting a weak / overpriced (sometimes both) DLC for a game everyone has stopped caring a long time ago, that's very frustrating. It feels we're being used as tools for extra profit. It feels that if you give us a DLC that no one bought for half of the price, maybe we suckers will at least give you some money for it. We feel like those "deals" would be better suited as a price reduction for every member, and forever.

No one is expecting you to give us CoD WaW Map Pack 3 for half of the price in the launching weekend. But you could give us both Map Pack 1 and 2 at a reduced price. And if you are giving a game specific DLC, maybe you should give us more than one deal.

But the best offers are discounted Arcade games, like you have done with Ikaruga. It would be awesome to have one guaranteed every week, because every week we would have a cheap, quality game to play, gold only. Castle Crashers, for example. I know it's constantly in your Top 10 sold games, but hey, isn't the "Deal of the Week" something Gold exclusive? Then make it exclusive! Give us an awesome game for less. It aggregates value to our subscription.

Right now, as it stands, Deal of the Week looks a bit like a joke on us, with rare exceptions.

Again, thanks for passing along the message.

No sir, I don't like it.

sucks seriously we have had like 2 or 3 actual Deal of the weeks worth it