Official Xbox 360 Thread

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Originally Posted by TobalRox

Why is the wireless headset such a big deal? The cable only goes to the controller, that's not that big of a distance.

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It's not a huge deal, but I find the hanging wire to be mildly annoyoing. Also, you have to either take off the headset or take the controller with you when you get up to check on porn downloads.

For those of you who were too lazy to set up a Silver account with a UK or Japan address for the Rainbox Six demo, you can now get the demo with your US account.

I hope no one supports EA with their horrific download schemes. Let that garbage rot.

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Originally Posted by Rumpy

I hope no one supports EA with their horrific download schemes. Let that garbage rot.

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I don't see why people would even consider getting this game after the pure garbage that was the demo. EA can really lick my nuts. Carbon demo blew ass, BF 2142 is full of bugs, spyware, and a virus if I'm not mistaken, and the list just goes on.

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Originally Posted by cka

on an unrelated note, I'm lollin pretty hard at ea's latest price gouging experiment with the marketplace and NFS Carbon... apparently you buy performance tuning settings from the live marketplace, and those combined with the "collectors edition update" comes out to 4000 fucking points, which is essentially double the cost of the game

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Do you have a source on this, or more details? I've looked through random gaming blogs today and can't find anything about it.

Sounds fucked, regardless.

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http://www.xboxic.com/news/1905#more-1905

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EA, who else, released the first load of downloadable content for their annual Need for Speed upgrade on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The game didn’t even warrant a Collectors Edition but if you were smart enough to not buy it you can now upgrade for only 800MP with ‘The Collectors Edition Upgrade’, just as we predicted. There’s a bunch of other stuff that should’ve been in the game in the first place too, complete list after the jump.

* The Collectors Edition Upgrade - 800 Points
* Performance Drivetrain Bundle - 400 Points
* Performance Engine Boost Bundle - 400 Points
* Performance Handling Bundle - 400 Points
* Ultimate Performance Bundle - 800 Points
* Muscle Car Autosculpt Body Kit - 300 Points
* Autosculpt Tuner Body Kit - 300 Points
* Autosculpt Exotic Body Kit - 300 Points
* 1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 - 80 Points
* 2004 Lamborghini Murcielago - 80 Points
* 2006 Dodge Viper SRT-10 - 80 Points

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Seriously what is wrong with this company?

My god, that's absolutely retarded. It makes horse armour seem like an excellent deal.

Fuck this, fuck EA, fuck microtransactions. NFS Carbon sucks anyway.

Hurr.

How much of that are just quick-release DLCs, and how many of them are required to get the content in game? Does this mean that I can't buy performance parts or a Skyline without paying EA first?

Yuck. I'm one of the more forgiving people here when it comes to microtransactions, but geez this is just a terrible implementation (on top of a terrible game).

I bet they're in the this gen editions that cost $10 less too, like the stupid Madden and Godfather microtransactions.

Only way they'll get the message is if no one buys it. I hope people are smart enough to make this fail.