Arcade: Lode Runner

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SuburbanBoy TM — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:08:02 GMT

Free from the shackles of gold at last! XBL arcade pricing has gotten completely out of hand. PSN has been producing some wonderful original arcade titles recently, that put the majority of offerings on Xbox Live to shame. And best of all they have been reasonably priced, and better yet there are regularly quickfire sales on the Playstation Store with many games discounted in price both new and old titles alike, (that aren't subscriber specific, ala the pathetic gold only 120 points off crap were expected to stomach). Not to mention its great being able to share games with upto 5 friends over PSN. Talk about amazing value for money!

Lol that sounds like im advertising the PS3, believe me I'm not, I've been the 360's most ardent supporter, but this nickle and diming and constant screwing over of europe has forced me into a more neutral stance. I mean if Steam can do deals for full price games like the orange box + the lost coast for $9.99/£5.69, and still make a profit, then something is clearly amiss with Microsoft's pricing structure.

So yeah thats me through with Xbox Live Gold now as of today's newly found Silver status. Sure am going to miss Call Of Duty, and clan matches over live. And no im not one of those people who can't afford to purchase a sub, and that whine on just for the sake of it. Simply don't like the arrogance I'm seeing shown towards customers inparticularly UK/european based folk, especially on a product I've seen returned 5 times. It's just not worth it anymore... So whose with me? Probably no-one lol, but even I can see the cracks appearing in the most loyal of 360 fans

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oO MG81 Oo — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:42:02 GMT

I went to buy this the other day then saw the price was 1200MSP!. That's a no deal for me, 800 would have been a sale but 1200 for any Arcade game is simply more than I'm willing to pay. I ended up buying Lumines with the points instead.

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loopingstar — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:16:26 GMT

I feel sorry for the game developers . I was just about to buy this then noticed the price had jumped up - no way I can stomach parting with the points now . The days of arcade has pretty much been a shambles ! It begins with the more than boxed game retail price of Family game night and ends with this some can get it for 800 , others have to pay 1200 scam ! What a shower Microsoft are . This wasn't a last minute mistake either because MN had announced the 800 points cost on his podcast 3 days previously !

Another lost sale , deleting the demo from my hard drive NOW !

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IconicSoulJA — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:49:37 GMT

WOW! I take back everything I said about this game. I played it with the Devs today and loved the Co-op mode! This game was worth every cent. They were bummed about the price drop and felt like people were blaming them. They wished it were handled differently in terms of pricing.

Anyway, the game is worth the money. I feel Microsoft should fix this!

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Zenfar — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:09:54 GMT

Loved the demo! I remember playing this on my Apple ][. And this one stays faithful to the original. I will be picking it up at 1200 points, paid more than that for the Apple version.

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Scooterific — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:00:35 GMT

Hopefully this pushes Tozai to release it on PSN where they charge real money and not these insulting space bucks that M$ and Major Nelson love so dearly.

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Scooterific — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:00:34 GMT

Hopefully this pushes Tozai to release it on PSN where they charge real money and not these insulting space bucks that M$ and Major Nelson love so dearly.

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StefanTheMongol — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:23:07 GMT

Sale=Lost. 1200 point games are NO BUYS.

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UKresistance — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:14:33 GMT

Only TOP quality games are worth 1200 points.

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OROSCO — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:32:28 GMT

Yeah, pretty lame. 1200 is the new standard I guess. At least they sell PSN Network cards in my area now, guess my gaming dollars will go there for a while.

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Scooterific — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:25:39 GMT

The 360 and its cheerleader Major Nelson are such an embarrassment in so many ways it's not even funny.

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ToothlessFrog — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:20:48 GMT

Bah! Was thinking about it at 800.... 1200... definitely not. What are these guys thinking? Wouldn't want to price anything right, now would they?

If this were a phyisical copy I could see $15, but for a download, $10 was just about right.

Get it straight MS and whoever sets the price. This idiotic pricing structure is ruining the good thing you had going.

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Exu — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:24:33 GMT

@ThePumpkinSomething - "This is a pretty ridiculous comment. Since when does a person's membership level on Xbox Live determine their intelligence level??? Idiot."

Not saying that at all. Anonymous posting stopped because many Anons were stupid. When that ended, in a few instances Silvers became the new Anons for a time. If anything I'm glad to see that end.

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So, the price still hasn't been CORRECTLY corrected. Damned shame, if this had remained at 800 I may have ended up on the other side of the fence. Now, I and others have surely been put off for good. Not even a Deal of the Week in a few months is gonna save this one lest it goes to 600 or below.

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Warrengonline — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:52:09 GMT

Majornelson's Podcast timecode: 1:00:57 to 1:01:00, what was that all about? ~L~

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DarkTear81 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:20:11 GMT

Meh what a joke putting up a game for 800 and then "correcting" it like 9h later. Sorry, if it was a mistake this would have happened way sooner. I had the demo in my download queue (after a movie) but when I saw the new price-tag I chanceled that one.

What I pay for is what I get... at least it should be that way. When there's a new game with new mechanics and stuff that needs quite some designing/programming I'm willing to pay 1200MSP. But surely NOT for a game where the idea is there and the programmers don't need to think about anything that should/is happening in the game.

IMHO Microsoft should've just not put it up as a mistake but say something like "It will be 800 till Saturday" or something. Would've saved them quite a mess.

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Warrengonline — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:20:24 GMT

Man the co-op on this game truly rocks!!! It is to awesome, frustrating at first and you HAVE to talk, just like in Gears of War 2 Horde when getting into position and making those jumps in Crackdown when using your partner's head as a platform. Too bad you can't get a taste of it in the demo. The co-op alone is worth 800 points to me. The Map Editor, I'm happy and sad to say, they have given the designer a bit too much tools (awesome), but now I can see levels from other games showing up - ie, first level of Mario Bros, Braid and more side scrolling. The Level Editor takes a little time to get use to (remember button X changes the item you want to use on level 0 - remember that) and that you work on levels (forefront, back, background, etc).

I look forward to playing more of this game, it is really neat. Those who are passing it up now, you'll get the point 'later' after everyone else. Better later than never at all.