Article here: http://www.callofdutymappacks.com/news/the-price-is-right/ We have just gotten to the stage (or more xbox 360 uses have) where if they purchased all map packs, you'd have spent more money on the map packs than the game itself for Black Ops. Have a read! What do you think, is it too much?
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Article here: http://www.callofdutymappacks.com/news/the-price-is-right/ We have just gotten to the stage (or more xbox 360 uses have) where if they purchased all map packs, you'd have spent more money on the map packs than the game itself for Black Ops. Have a read! What do you think, is it too much?
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I hadn't played Black Ops for a loooooooooooong time, and started playing again last weekend. I knew there had been map packs, but hadn't paid any attention to them, but when I had a look I was shocked at the price. I think they're WAY too pricey. I got the game for about £35, so it was relatively cheap for release day, but all the maps will total near on £33, so yeah. It's like buying another game!
I'm not buying them - simple as that. They'll drop the price and sell them as a bundle at some point, probably for about £20. I'll wait for that. Besides, I'm a noob all over again and I'm getting slaughtered! I need to learn to play it again before learning to play new maps
Definitely way over priced.
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I haven't bought any of them and don't plan to. The new COD will be out soon enough. Also the new pack that just came out is only zombies.
I never bought them. Higher priories then map packs
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If your an avid COD player you will end up drinking the Cool-Aid just to be able to stay in the game. If you don't purchase them - you will end up being in less and less lobbies.
Its extortion sure - but I like the new maps. I do wish they were $9.99 instead of the $15.99 - or get at least more content for the price.
And.. by the time they introduce lower pricing the community will have moved on to the next installation of COD: Steal Your Soul edition leaving the old ones in the dust.
I try not to think about the money... the movies nowadays are $9.99 a ticket, a Blue Ray is $24.99, and even a new hardcover book is more expensive.
For me its a decent price vs. value thing.
Im just waiting for my maps to download, i wasnt going to download them but all my mates have who play online. Yea they cost way to much, it should be a one of price for all downloadable content.
Once MW3 comes out they should drop to an almost reasonable price but who will be playing at that time?
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The Fandango app in beta is out on the android market now!!
I just got done playing with it. It's good, but Flixster is better in literally every way except one: with Fandango's app you can buy tickets from pretty much anywhere. Flixster's pretty limited in which theaters you can buy from.
But honestly, I don't buy tickets online. Screw convenience fees, that's just stupid. So I'm definitely sticking with Flixster.
Gonna use Fandango for buying tickets and Flixster for movie reviews and basically everything else . Lets see if they do more with fandango in the future.
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Screw convenience fees, that's just stupid.
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Couldn't agree more! I just don't understand the moronic logic of fandango... "Let's see, how can we entice people to buy online instead of at the theater where they are going anyways? Oh, I know, let's charge them MORE!"
Never thought of it that way LOL
Chahk said:
Couldn't agree more! I just don't understand the moronic logic of fandango... "Let's see, how can we entice people to buy online instead of at the theater where they are going anyways? Oh, I know, let's charge them MORE!"
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The logic is that if you want to go to a movie on opening night you buy them online so you reserve your space and not risk getting to a sold out movie.
Sure you can drive on earlier and just purchase them before hand but with the price of gas now a days you'd end up spending the same on the drive + added time of travel.
There's also the convenience of not having to stand in line, which is sometimes pretty long.
You pay a little extra for convenience
See, that's why you go there an hour or two before, buy the tickets, then go to dinner before the movie. Maybe it's different where you live, but the only way a movie is going to be sold out an hour before it plays is if it's a HUGE movie.
I don't know. I realize it's convenient, and I like convenience. But unless they can show me that the extra charge is necessary to cover additional costs on their part, I can't support the concept of the "convenience fee." It's just an extra charge for extra profit, because they can.
Anyway, enough of my ranting. I'm looking forward to seeing what Fandango does with their app too, but I have serious doubts it'll out-do Flixster in anyplace other than ticket buying.
tickets are already 8.50 here in austin.. why would i wanna pay more lol..
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See, that's why you go there an hour or two before, buy the tickets, then go to dinner before the movie. Maybe it's different where you live, but the only way a movie is going to be sold out an hour before it plays is if it's a HUGE movie.
I don't know. I realize it's convenient, and I like convenience. But unless they can show me that the extra charge is necessary to cover additional costs on their part, I can't support the concept of the "convenience fee." It's just an extra charge for extra profit, because they can.
Anyway, enough of my ranting. I'm looking forward to seeing what Fandango does with their app too, but I have serious doubts it'll out-do Flixster in anyplace other than ticket buying.
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How about the convenience of being able to order from ANYWHERE. You know, it takes money to run their online servers and their web site to provide a service. Not to mention the money spent for developers to make apps for different mobile platforms. If you don't want to pay a convenience fee and go pick it up, fine. To some people (like myself), I see it as a waste of time to go there and pick up tickets just so I don't come back two hours later to a sold out show.
That's great, go for it. Your choice, you know? I just don't personally like paying a dollar for the "convenience" of it.
Besides--and maybe this isn't true about theaters where you others live--don't most theaters allow you to prepurchase tickets directly from them via phone or internet? I usually go to a Kerasotes theater and it looks like they don't charge any convenience fees for buying their tickets online...
I bought my Nook Color in the asumption, that I would get a fair share of ebooks for free. Till now i've also found nearly every book I wanted.
But this particular one book, I couldnt find anywhere.
So I looked at B&N, there I could get it for 10 Bucks, this simply was a little bit to much for a under 200 page book, so i started looking to find it somewhere else cheaper. Because I actually only know the kindlestore I looked there.
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/1855/****mydadsyas.png
This picture simply makes me sad, I dont find it funny and I also cant understand why ebooks are so expensive, to even being more expensive than the hardcover.
I cant understand this, because through this price policy the whole ebook market gets destroyed.
I actually dont want to start a big discussion.
i would just be interested if anyone knows a cheaper & good ebookshop
Amazon has it as a kindle book for 9.99
I might add that like B+N, the physical book price is less than the e-book which makes no sense at all.
The problem stems from the copy houses still demanding to get paid despite nothing getting printed. It's like the companies that press CD's demanding to get paid for MP3 downloads. But somehow the emarket was hosed when this became the norm. Kobo used to be a great place to get a good deal but those days are gone.
I simply put my ebooks in my b&n wish list and watch the prices. When they get reasonable, I'll buy them. It's not a perfect solution and it's absolutely stupid when a physical ANYTHING is cheaper than the digital version.
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It's not a perfect solution and it's absolutely stupid when a physical ANYTHING is more expensive than the digital version.
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Don't you mean the other way around?
Anyway, yes they are too expensive. I would like to get my son a few of the read to me books, but at $10 a pop, I would much rather buy him the actual book.
Here are some places I look when I price out ebooks:
leatherbound.me <== searches multiple sites at once but they don't have support for many stores yet
books.google.com/ebooks
fictionwise.com
Barnes and Noble
Amazon
Borders
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Anyway, yes they are too expensive. I would like to get my son a few of the read to me books, but at $10 a pop, I would much rather buy him the actual book.
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Actually, the read-to-me books are the one example I can think of where there is added value in the electronic version which would justify a higher price. I've certainly already bought books electronically at higher-than-paper price, just because of the portability aspect and because I enjoy having content delivered to my lazy buttocks instantly.
The pricing does suck, though. Paying $1 for an iPod game that lasts me hours vs. $10 for a license to download a book is rather disparate. App stores have established a very low threshold for what people find acceptable for prices of downloaded content, but unless publishers fall in line (or, preferably, die), prices will continue to not make sense.
Personally, I think its a little crazy that books have joined music and movies as a good that people now find to be overpriced due to inflated prices from anachronistic and irrelevant previous distribution structures. Ohwellz.
Didn't see this one coming. Go to amazon.com/cloudplayer
To summarize: Amazon did what Google's been planning to do for a while now.
Amazon uploads your music to the cloud and allows you to stream it to any device (logged in, of course) through their player. The first 5GB are free, 20GB is $20 a year, 100GB is $100 etc. From there, you can even choose to download the music to your SD.
Is anyone else as impressed as I am?
I'm also impressed. Never expected this from Amazon since I haven't read any rumors about it unlike with Google's and Apple's service.
The other feature that I believe is awesome is that any Amazon music purchase you make is automatically stored on your cloud account for free (doesn't use up your storage). So you don't really have to worry about backing up the music on multiple drives like you have to with iTunes purchases.
I already use Subsonic, but will probably be using this feature whenever I buy music from them.
Yah that back up is cool wish old purchases were backed up though.
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All that's left now is for Amazon to clean up the music player a bit more. You can tell they put some amount of thought into the design (and took a few cues from the iOS music player) but IMO it could use a little polish.
Still, great work by Amazon. They stepped their game up, again.
This is amazing but it's only usable within the us
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Its a fantastic service. I've filled up my 5gb quota already. If you buy a full album from amazon from now between December 31 you will get 20GB storage for free
You can buy this "album" (1 song for 69 CENTS) and get the 20gigs for a year. I did it.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SKEEM8/ref=docs-os-doi_0
I have some kind of discount show up on my receipt, so I actually only paid 39 CENTS lol.
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You can buy this "album" (1 song for 69 CENTS) and get the 20gigs for a year. I did it.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SKEEM8/ref=docs-os-doi_0
I have some kind of discount show up on my receipt, so I actually only paid 39 CENTS lol.
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Worth it. Just barely though, as the fact that it's glee raises the mental cost a little bit
Amazon is currently on a big time lawsuit against the big guys at Hollywood and DMA copywright people, it was all over the news yesterday
if they fall through, then this can backfire as a new weapon/ammo for the DMA people to crack down on MP3 music collections
so, IMO i'll wait until the dust settles before signing up for the account with Amazon
there are plenty of other good ones like mSpot and CX and much more for cloud music streaming
and there are even those you can host in your own home computer, as mentioned in the other topic
... you know... just us typical paranoids about the feds spying on us
Source: http://www.slashgear.com/googles-nexus-7-stops-orders-due-to-demand-22239712/
Google has decided to stop taking orders from its online store, assumedly because it has such a huge backlog it doesn’t even know when it will be able to fulfill new customer purchases. The 16 GB $249 tablet had been showing up as being delayed for one to two weeks. As of now, though, it’s impossible to place an order. The 8 GB model, at $199, is still available for orders.
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Just FYI
Welcome to about 4 days ago, the 16gb stopped being available for order around 4 wednesday of last wk.
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The 16GB been out of stock since last week..
Well... good that the are stopping orders for now, they need to focus on getting the orders they already have shipped out. But bad that the 16GB may be delayed 1-2 weeks... I think that $300 went missing from my credit card as I haven't spent that much on it since I last made a payment but I won't know until layer monday when my bank updates the transactions online... hoping to see a charge for my 16GB Nexus 7 on there.
I'm not particularly mad at Google... just mildly annoyed. and I hope this was a good learning experience for them.
I think the 8gb model is good enough anyway. The transformers movie is streamed anyway by default. Unless you plan on loading tons f apps it should be fine for most.
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All I'm gonna say is someone did a terrible job at forecasting for the 16gb.
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All I'm gonna say is someone did a terrible job at forecasting for the 16gb.
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What crystal ball are you looking at?
Markets are a fickle thing... hard to really know what is going to be a big hit and what wont be. It would appear, that the 16gb is outselling the 8gb, but who really knows real numbers are. Maybe they made a ton more of the 8gb units thinking they would sell better.
Was the Kindle Fire more popular because it was under $200 or because it was released first before the Nook tablet which was $249 or is it because it was Amazon with decent content etc...
Getting stuck with a ton of product that didn't catch on can be expensive. and playing catchup a hot product is a good position for a company to be in if they can ramp up fast enough. Sometimes constraints of available product also promote higher demand under the false sense that they are more popular than they really are. Who knows....
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All I'm gonna say is someone did a terrible job at forecasting for the 16gb.
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Or someone did a great job choking off the supply of 16GB units to force impatient buyers to the 8GB, making them more likely to buy into Google's cloud services.
"Supply crises" are much more often planned than not. Not saying they won't get the 16GB back on the market quickly, because they will. But how many buyers in the meantime will settle for 8GB and a Google Drive subscription?
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Or someone did a great job choking off the supply of 16GB units to force impatient buyers to the 8GB, making them more likely to buy into Google's cloud services.
"Supply crises" are much more often planned than not. Not saying they won't get the 16GB back on the market quickly, because they will. But how many buyers in the meantime will settle for 8GB and a Google Drive subscription?
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That depends....Are people going to want to buy these anyways after reading all these articles mentioning all these defects. No one knows for sure if it's just 8gb or 16gb or both. Sure they got a lot of money up front but it doesn't help when you constantly have to replace them and with that kind of launch are people really going to take that risk right now. If not and they want to wait a couple months some other tablet could come out around the same price range or just a better tablet in general. You're talking lost profits at that point. Forecasting does come into it at some point but this launch didn't help at all
hmm. So they won't ship it, or refund it. Great
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Well our kiddo pulled off the impossible and made honor roll and went from referrals every week to not having a referral to the office all year.
I gave him my xbox for making honor roll, but I've given all of my games away to single mothers over the last few years, and now our lil guy is in need of games.
I had Forza 4, and a few zombie slasher type games but those will give him nightmares. Do any of you have any older or budget games lying around that you could donate or sell real cheap? He doesn't have to have to latest and greatest for him, just some fun games for a kiddo about 8. Maybe some games your or your kid have outgrown.
He has the instruments from rock band and guitar hero but no game discs, and also has the Kinect. It's brand, new someone gave it to me as a gift, and I'm letting him use it as well as my xbox 360.
If you have some things laying around that would be affordable to someone on a tiny budget let me know. I have a fedex account and will cover shipping, or might have things to trade also.
CharliesTheMan said:
Well our kiddo pulled off the impossible and made honor roll and went from referrals every week to not having a referral to the office all year.
I gave him my xbox for making honor roll, but I've given all of my games away to single mothers over the last few years, and now our lil guy is in need of games.
I had Forza 4, and a few zombie slasher type games but those will give him nightmares. Do any of you have any older or budget games lying around that you could donate or sell real cheap? He doesn't have to have to latest and greatest for him, just some fun games for a kiddo about 8. Maybe some games your or your kid have outgrown.
He has the instruments from rock band and guitar hero but no game discs, and also has the Kinect. It's brand, new someone gave it to me as a gift, and I'm letting him use it as well as my xbox 360.
If you have some things laying around that would be affordable to someone on a tiny budget let me know. I have a fedex account and will cover shipping, or might have things to trade also.
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Do you have a local game stop? You can find some cheap used old games there. Perhaps ebay or amazon?
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