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The whole points system, never really bothered me. Ever since I was young I had to exchange money for things like arcade tokens so I guess I became used to it early on. So I've never really cared that Microsoft and Nintendo use their own currency for their online shops. But do I find it annoying when I have points just lying around? You bet. I currently have 40 Microsoft Points just sitting there and the only thing worth that much is a pair of Tomb Raider Avatar sun glasses. I guess that's better than my other roommate Dwight who literally has 62 points sitting on his Xbox 360. But I have found some entertainment by the ridiculousness that occurs when trying to purchase things with these points and for those of you who like laughing at others misfortunes, here's three other instances we at 4Player Podcast had over the last 3 months.
From when Brad decided to buy DeathSpank.
From when I went to buy a game on Wii Shop.
From my Best Buy Rewards Zone Account.
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14 years, 1 month ago
Haha that's great, I don't normally have this problem since if I want something off psn I just go reload my visa gift card with the exact amount at a CVS. Yeah I have to drive to the store, but it beats having left Over cash.
I know what you mean though cause my friend complains all the time about how he always has leftover points but can never use them.
14 years, 1 month ago
Not as bad as 10 msp, but how the hell do you get 62?
14 years, 1 month ago
I have 40 MS point just luying there too, and it sucks that I can't do anything about them.
14 years, 1 month ago
Having only purchased games through PSN, I haven't really had this trouble with purchasing games. But I do understand the frustration with the online reward points stuff for online shopping.... drives me insane.
14 years, 1 month ago
yeah thats why i pretty much only deal with PSN now
14 years, 1 month ago
This is exactly why they love micro-transactions so much. It's all engineered to be like this.
14 years, 1 month ago
Wow @ Best Buy one. I didn't think that would even be possible.
14 years, 1 month ago
God I hate when that happens.
14 years, 1 month ago
Yeah, that Best Buy one sadly seems like the equivalent to a kick in the nuts.
14 years, 1 month ago
My god this was incredibly annoying considering mostly anything I wanted to buy would be 50 points or so away from what i needed. blaragghhhh @ MS points and any other kind of currency X(
14 years, 1 month ago
Never happened to me I refill at least every weekend
14 years, 1 month ago
Lol, fake Microsoft monies. I still have about 800 points laying around in my account. It's dumb. I hate the points system.
14 years, 1 month ago
Ya it really sucks how the whole system is geared to essentially make you waste money.
14 years, 1 month ago
This stuff annoys the hell out of me too. No matter what you do, you're always wasting money thanks to the exchange rates :/
14 years, 1 month ago
Nevr really bothers me
14 years, 1 month ago
The worst I've had was 30 point diffrence on Xbox Live Marketplace
14 years, 1 month ago
i think that that's happened to me like once or twice. but just with wii points and it noramly happens when im purchaseing DLC. not really that big of a deal though mostly because i normaly buy all avaliable DLC dor just one game