DCEmulation
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Last few weeks behind this was only 2 I noticed.melancholy wrote:This week we only get one? I know it's a good one, but that's still really disappointing. Why did they stop releasing 3 a week? It's not like they are running out of things to port.
Why does it cost you $10 for 500 points?Veggita2099 wrote:I would buy Star Tropics If it wouldn't cost me $10 in points just to buy a 500 point item.
Because You have to buy 1000 points and there is only 500 points worth of stuff I want to buy. Nintendo can't just let you buy what you need. So it would cost me $10 to buy this game, although granted I would have 500 points sitting around. Still its crappy you can't just buy what you want. I guess that is the one and only thing the Sony Store on Ps3 has over 360/Wii is they don't use those BS points. You want a $5 game you pay $5 and your done. No left over points!!!!! The whole points thing is just a scam to make you pay more. Think about it how many points between your 360 and Wii do you have sitting around. I have 200 points on my Wii right now I can't do ANYTHING with. I think I have about 150 points on my 360, just enough to NOT be able to purchase a tv show. Yea its just a couple of dollars here and there, but think about how much money these companies are sitting on because of these points. IF every Wii owner has 100 points on standby how much extra money is that Nintendo has? Same deal with the 360.melancholy wrote:Why does it cost you $10 for 500 points?Veggita2099 wrote:I would buy Star Tropics If it wouldn't cost me $10 in points just to buy a 500 point item.
Yea Microsoft could have at least used 1 cent to 1 point like Nintendo. However at least with Microsoft there are things you can buy when you drop below $5 worth of points. You want to buy a $6 game on Wii you spend $10. Then you have 400 points ($4) you can't do nothing with. With Xbox live you can use that money to buy add-ons to certain games (granted nothing wonderful in that price range), or you can buy tv shows for 2 bucks which I think it great. I don't care a bit to pay $2 for a tv show just to avoid the commercials. If Microsoft wasn't such buttholes and would allow us to use external hard drives I would download quite a few tv shows, but I am not going to spend a outlandish amount of money on their elite 120MB HD when every other HD pretty much in existence is cheaper.melancholy wrote:I guess I just don't notice because I buy everything with point cards. Which, contrary to you, means I don't like the Sony store because Sony is the only one that doesn't sell point cards. And if they did offer cards, I would still be thoroughly annoyed because everything ends with .99, plus there's random change for tax, meaning that I would always have random money floating around on the account. Same reason iTunes cards annoys me.
But that's still not as bad as Microsoft. I hate the 360 point system despite them offering cards because their entire systems is so convoluted. $1 for 80 points? WTF was their logic behind this terrible idea? There was an Oblivion item I wanted that was 50 points, but buying it would screw up my point account. What the hell can you do with 30 points on Marketplace?
Nintendo's system isn't perfect either, but at least they use a logical system (1 point per penny) and keep everything rounded up to a dollar. That helps, but choosing your point amount would be nice too. It's not something I deal with, though, because as I said before, I just buy point cards.
I get a discount on points cards.Veggita2099 wrote:I can see from a points card user your reasons though, although I don't understand why you want to use point cards?
HELL YES! Oh, I'm am downloading that right now!|darc| wrote:Kirby 64 - $10
Yeah, Kirby 64 is pretty awesome. I'm not sure if it is $10-awesome right now though.. I'm hoping Nintendo releases Smash Bros. for N64 before Brawl. (Hopefully). Maybe Nintendo is running out of sucky games.melancholy wrote:HELL YES! Oh, I'm am downloading that right now!|darc| wrote:Kirby 64 - $10
Heh, Renegade. That was the first game I've ever beaten on my NES. I even beat it before Mario Bros, which is strange, but I played it so much at a friend's house that once I got my own NES I wanted something different. So I ended up getting Renegade. I loved it back then, but looking back, it certainly didn't age very well.Yonke wrote:Renegade - Nes
Fuck Yes.