EA Selling In Game Money On Xbox Live

October 25th, 2006 Posted in Adventure, Business, Driving, Multiplayer, Offbeat, Online, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Xbox 360

rip-offEA surprised us when they announced that you would be able to purchase cheats in Tiger Woods PGA 2007, and purchase instruction videos for Madden 07. Their latest idea is to offer users of Xbox Live to buy in-game money for Godfather, and then spend it on new weapons and whatever comes along.

You can increase you Godfather bankroll by $50,000, $100,000, and $250,000 for 40 MS points ($0,740), 75 MS points ($0.94), and 150 ($1.88) MS points, respectively. While the PC version has a cheat code that would give you free money, the Xbox360 version has that cheat disabled, naturally.

Since Microsoft started the whole thing with Marketplace and Microsoft Points, they should at least try and control what publishers like EA are charging for. If it isn’t within the realm of common sense, then remove it. But that’s not how capitalism works, “the market will correct itself”, as business people always say. I’m not sure about the Xbox Live Market though.

Read (GameSpot)

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7 Responses to “EA Selling In Game Money On Xbox Live”

  1. Jim2k Says:

    October 25th, 2006 at 1:35 am

    Just wait till thet offer you rumble feature for 250 ms points, the use of the B button for 150 ms points, and, as the crem de la crem, 500 ms points if you want to play the game again, after you completed it the first tioe.



  2. Doom Says:

    October 25th, 2006 at 2:24 am

    I bet they charge you the second you look at the dvd covers in a store soon.



  3. Emerald Says:

    October 25th, 2006 at 3:21 am

    NEW! You can play the game! Just buy the game for full retail price and pay 500 MS points to play! Per hour!



  4. Shiaoran Says:

    October 25th, 2006 at 3:28 am

    “NEW! You can play the game! Just buy the game for full retail price and pay 500 MS points to play! Per hour!”

    Ever heard of pay to play? It already exists :P

    Someone should hack the servers of EA and all the other abusive companies(like Square-Enix, that charges $12 per month for Final Fantasy XI and will delete all your rpogress if you don’t pay/play for 3 months) and distribute everything for free on the internet.

    As of this Godfather money thing, just wait until a cheat device is released.



  5. Sam Says:

    October 25th, 2006 at 5:52 pm

    soon you will have to pay to get to the next level!



  6. Anuban Says:

    October 25th, 2006 at 6:05 pm

    :lol: :lol: Now that is funny …. the sad thing is I am almost positive that is going to happen in some form sooner than we’d like to see it.



  7. marquee Says:

    November 1st, 2006 at 3:33 am

    EA the new gold famers.



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