Xbox 360 Virtual Fireplace

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dave — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:24:02 GMT

Paying for a virtual fireplace? Please tell me people aren't this stupid.

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Alex — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:32:47 GMT

I think these games are priced according to size, not by its "worth". It is of course, debatable but fireplace DVDs run at about $7. Remember that MS has to make some money too, otherwise I bet that if this guy had any control over pricing, he would have charged less.

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willwgp — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:17:22 GMT

I was just at the grocery store today and saw a Fire Log for sale, it was 400 Microsoft Points .......... :)

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Anon — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:00:29 GMT

Lame that you thought this non interactive screensaver was newsworthy. When there are actual good community games worth posting.

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anon — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:02:49 GMT

are you kidding? are you all gone INSANE? you are going to pay money to look at A FAKE FIREPLACE?!?!?!?!??! Does anyone else see how utterly RIDICULOUS this is? ANYONE?

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Quicksand — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:48:19 GMT

To each their own. Personally, I would pick up Word Soup for the points.

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Warrengonline — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:01:15 GMT

@Maj

I WAS going to say what some others have said earlier, before NXE, but at times some online products highlight the BUY button. When I buy products on Market Place there is usually a 'Confirm Download' option. It's great as I've had over-powered some impulse buys at that screen. But there have been TWO separate occasions where I do not re-collect buying a certain item I am not interested in. It was taken care of easily. But with all do respect, 'something' needs to be done about that. I was moving slow on the site and almost clicked the Buy button by mistake, but noticed it. That needs to be re-arranged. Also, not sure if anyone reported this - if you're online status is Appear Offline - MS Point Codes won't take.

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Warrengonline — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:23:24 GMT

@JDBizz

I agree, this is not something phenomenal, but it shows what a person CAN do with XNA. I bet if it were girlies dancing on the beach for 400 MS Points, there probably would not be ONE post on here and you'd hear the crickets singing here. And the stock market will be like "Today's weird news, 100,000% of band width is being used to download 'The Beach' from Community Games on Microsoft Xbox Game Servers...."

@Anon 77

I feel that usually, but then there are a few diamonds in the rough of those 2000 Games and not all are dumpy clones or have that Jar-Jar Binks love. Again "Take it or Leave It.. But for sheesh's sake 'SILENCIO!'"

@Anon 74

Tsk-tsk

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Aviar Amidar — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:46:41 GMT

With the $5.00 for this app, do I get some free horse armor for Oblivion? This should be something that was priced for the Holidays, like one buck or .99. Five bucks is a bit much for this. You thinks pricing mishaps like this would be a thing of the past, but I guess some people just don't learn from past mistakes.

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Earl Nuce — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:18:25 GMT

Nice to see that the XNA tools are being put to good use. Oh, wait...

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ThePumpkinKing — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:45:07 GMT

This is pretty lame. Most, if not all the community games, you can actually play, cost $2.50. What makes this worth twice as much? What makes it worth anything? Is it perhaps the fact that it's a "fad" item that is guaranteed to sell during the holidays? Because I don't get it. 400 msp is a joke. A bad joke. And telling us to "take it or leave it" is just as much of a joke. Microsoft and their ridiculous price points can keep it. Because in this day and age, any moderately intelligent consumer would never be stupid enough to take it.

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Dr Cogent — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:33:48 GMT

Hahahahahahahahah!

Five bucks for a screensaver that should be free? What are they thinking? ROFL!

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DKR1138 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:10:03 GMT

Someone needs to release a 3d fish aquarium... but not on community games, because like all things cool, Australia misses out.

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dreampage — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:46:49 GMT

This must be a joke, right? A fricking joke. Don't tell me you want to charge 400 Points (price of an Arcade game) for a screensaver. This should be a free application just like the snow globe on the Dashboard, not a full priced thing. FAIL.

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shadaik — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:19:30 GMT

Wow. Usually XNA gets hardly noticed.

So, in order to get some attention when you put stuff on XNA, it's better to make utter crap and ridiculously overprice it? I'm sorry, Major, but you're doing a real disservice to the XNA line-up and programmers here.

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Fufz — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:18:17 GMT

You can stick your fireplace in Sony's Home ass. :]]]]