It’s almost as if M$ don’t want anyone to play this.

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For all I like most of the arcade games the new price points, 1600/1200 are ridiculous compared to 800/400 of days gone by.

After a couple of months you can pick up most FULL games for around this price if you shop around and don’t mind pre-owned and then you can part-ex when you’re done as well!

No way I’m dropping this much ANY game I can’t recycle!

Penny Arcade got some attention now it’s 800 and for that it’s good value, 1600 it is not worth though.

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Wow. I’ve bought bought some 40 arcade titles, but I guess my days of buying XBLA games are over.

Giving us the shaft only ends up hurting yourselves in the end guys.

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¿1600 points? No, thank you.

In 4 months, “Deal: Puzzle Quest Galactrix 800 MP”. I’ll wait.

I’ve bought some 120 titles, but, as Helvedeshunen, I guess my days of buying XBLA games are over. 1600 Points… What a madness…

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1600 points for a puzzle game! No thanks!
When are you guys gonna learn, no one wants or likes these new price points.

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Xebu said: “After a couple of months you can pick up most FULL games for around this price if you shop around and don’t mind pre-owned and then you can part-ex when you’re done as well”

I’ve just bought seven brand new sealed full retail games all for under the price of this in the easter sales.

I’m no stranger to XBLA purchases, having 84 of them on my Elite HD (now including Penny Arcade at 800 points), but I’m never going to pay this much for an XBLA game, a game I cannot trade in, cannot have a physical copy of or get a refund on.

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It should be pointed out that this is actually the cheapest version of PQ Galatrix going around.
So this ain’t such a bad deal really.

Check out the DS version and Steam version.

I won’t be buying this myself, but MS aren’t in the wrong charging 1600pts for this.
Some things are actually worth their high price.

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If it is being sold at retail for the DS, then maybe they should sell it retail for the 360 and NOT through LIVE Arcade.
The arcade has always been about reasonably priced games that are quick to play.
1600 points is not an impulse buying price and as such should not been seen on marketplace.
Keep it to the high street.

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Pricing for this game on Amazon or Steam is 20 Dollar too. So I don’t go with the “Oh my god! Greedy MS!” screamers. I have to take a look on the demo though, since it got merely lukewarm reviews.

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I’ve already bought the first one, and had a great time with it. I didn’t hesitate to buy this one (on marketplace via xbox.com, I’ll download it after the office). Think about it : it’s more expensive on DS (almost 30 € on DS versus almost 20 € on XBL). Ok it’s more expensive than some othe games on XBL, mais I’m just a fan of PQ.

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GOD SAKE MICROSOFT your are a Joke.

This 1200 / 1600 points an arcade game, is stupid now.

WHERE IN A TIME OF MONEY CRISES.

What do get off charging stupid prices for crappy arcade games ?

I thought the idea of the arcade was cheap and cheerful games you could pick up and play and not feel your pocket emptying ??

but no, the prices are a joke, I’m not and haven’t bought any arcades titles at the moment and won’t until you review the there prices.

What happened to 400 / 800 points ???

oh sorry you still need to make money, yer so do we all.

I’d bet you’d sell more if you put prices to a better level, but no you won’t cos you like making a console that doesn’t work properly then ripping your consumers off with over priced content.

One well pissed customer.

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I have played this game on the DS and it is not as good as its predecessor. I found it tedious having to constantly unlock the gateways to progress in the game, a boring story and mostly boring battles with VERY obvious cheating AI. It got to the point where I was spending more time unlocking pointless gateways than actually fighting any enemies.

Save your points or buy Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords which is a much better game and great value for money, now at 800 points if I remember right.

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1600 is a lot for an XBLA game, I might have bought this for 1200 but by all accounts this is a worse game than the original Puzzle Quest was. I might buy it if there’s a 50% off sale but even then it’s 800 points for a game that is apparently incredibly repetitive.

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So then I take it Peggle will be the last good arcade game that I’ll actually buy?

800 points for a great game. Unless something that costs twice as much is twice as much fun as Peggle, I don’t see myself buying it.

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It’s worth the money, considering the massive amount of content.
You griefers obviously didn’t play the last one, which was similarly priced and also worth the money. There’s more content here than most $60 games.

Think of PQ 1 as the Oblivion of live arcade games, and PQ 2 as the Fallout 3 of them.

I’ve probably put around 200 hrs. into the first one, still have a lot of things to do, and haven’t even begun the expansion pack yet. I can easily see a 400 plus hr. total before I’m done with it – Roughly on par with the average amount of time I’ve put into EACH (Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3) of Bethesda’s RPG epics.

I guarantee that everyone in this topic has paid much more for much less.

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I don’t see how you all think MS sets the prices! It’s the same price on Steam MS doesn’t set those prices it’s the publishers guys. And no, I will not buy this game b/c its overpriced and sucks.

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I will stick with the original…with the bad reviews and high price tag, I will pass. If I have a taste for a Puzzle Quest game, I will play the original…which they got right. I have heard the new one is VERY repetitive.

And to Stormgeist….if you have put in 200 hours into puzzle quest, good for you (great game)although I don’t believe that it has that much content to keep me occupied for that long. I just refuse to pay $20 for a rehashed game that doesnt even deliver what the first did….to each their own.

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I wish you guys would stop whining, it’s the MSRP on PC. It’s not Microsoft’s fault, jesus.

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It’s just a lame version of Hexic.
The demo sucked and as such I am not buying. But I’m glad I did my bit to bring the game’s conversion rate down😉

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@T360UK Chief
What on earth has it got to do with Hexic? The mechanics are totally different, no flowers, or pearls, you match in lines, not clusters, etc. etc. The ONLY similiarity is the fact it takes place with hexagonal pieces.

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Lol, 1600 are you for real Microshaft?

Major does any of this get back to MS b/c it’s a joke. They’ve obviously not heard there’s a global economic crisis going on.

They should be giving stuff away to keep people buying not outting it up

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Wow, this game is incredibly dull. Dull dull dull dull DULL!
I was able to stomach about three minutes before I quit to dashboard and deleted the trial, it was that bad. Oh and overpriced, obviously.

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Already bought & played (& quickly tired of) the PC version…I’m glad this came out so much later as I probably would’ve bought it on both platforms for a simultaneous release. Saved $20! Really disappointing follow-up to the amazing original game.

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If it was 1200 pts id prolly nab it but 1600??? Ill pass till it drops in price.

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LMAO!!! 1600???? Ok is this an April Fools joke? LMAO!! I seen Flock for 1200 and laughed…but then I seen this game for 1600. MS does realize the whole “economy crashing” thing right? See…when this happens you are suppose to LOWER prices this way people spend more and boost the economy. Not raise them so they spend less. lol. Obviously they have morons working at MS that no nothing about they way things work. They are more worried about what a game is worth then whats going on in the world.
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Speaking of which. Just because some gamers still buy this game doesn’t mean everyone can. I hate seeing that “Well I bought it!”. Wow good for the 100 people that still have jobs, or have money now. Its harder for people now so less and less can afford these games. At least not for what they are getting out of it.

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