Xbox Live Marketplace Black Friday Sale


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Sure, but it's not as if MS is jumping to do sales for those holidays in other countries. Infact the only one I remember us having here was that global one that had Shivering Isles, Mass Effects DLC ect as part of it.

It would have been nice if they either let other countries in on the US sales or alternatively once or twice a year did something for other regions. I mean it's just DLC, I can't see whats exactly stopping them despite Major Nelsons excuse that it's "due to a lot of issues". I really doubt that, especially if they managed that previous global one that wasn't in conjunction with any holiday.

Not that I'm too fussed, none of that content interest me anyway. ATM I'd rather they actually got the video store happening here. No idea what happened to that.

I want deals on DLC just as much as the rest of you, I'm just saying the rest of the world doesn't celebrate Thanks Giving and thus we don't have Black Friday either. Why should we expect the deal?

I'm not saying they shouldn't offer deals around the world on other holidays, I'd welcome it of course.

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I'm definitely picking up Catan.

If you want to find someone to play with.. toss me a Live friend request. I'll totally play.

Dam, I wish Kingdom for Keiflings was on the list, I'm really interested in the game.

It's too new.. and the price is already a steal for as great as that game is.

On topic: Nothing interests me here. :(

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Did people forget that 'Black Friday' is an American Holiday and not anyone elses? I'm surprised that people outside of America didn't get the sales.

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I went ahead and bought ALL the Arcade titles and some of Addons.

Passed on Metallica Album, March Car pack (Forza), All that remains Pack, The Remedy, and all the themes.

I probably will regret it though, those games on sale might be even cheaper a year from now, and I will just kick myself for buying this year when that happens.

I am glad to see MS do these sales, but MS should do these deals more and more titles. Instead of Delete Old Arcades that nobody buys, put them on Clearance instead! Amazon and other stores would take more off so I still don't like Digital download that much, at all!

Look at Amazon they take 50-70% OFF, and Most MS can do is 37.5%, it just CAN'T compare to Amazon's deals on Friday/Saturday!

PHYSICAL PRODUCTS FTW, ALWAYS!!!

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I went ahead and bought ALL the Arcade titles and some of Addons.

Passed on Metallica Album, March Car pack (Forza), All that remains Pack, The Remedy, and all the themes.

I probably will regret it though, those games on sale might be even cheaper a year from now, and I will just kick myself for buying this year when that happens.

I am glad to see MS do these sales, but MS should do these deals more and more titles. Instead of Delete Old Arcades that nobody buys, put them on Clearance instead! Amazon and other stores would take more off so I still don't like Digital download that much, at all!

Look at Amazon they take 50-70% OFF, and Most MS can do is 37.5%, it just CAN'T compare to Amazon's deals on Friday/Saturday!

PHYSICAL PRODUCTS FTW, ALWAYS!!!

Are you serious?

Digital downloads on clearance? Do you know what clearance sale means?

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Look at Amazon they take 50-70% OFF, and Most MS can do is 37.5%, it just CAN'T compare to Amazon's deals on Friday/Saturday!

PHYSICAL PRODUCTS FTW, ALWAYS!!!

Amazon has store rooms it needs to clear so for old products they need to ship them otherwise they waste space and money. As for newer items, they drop those so much to remain very competitive with other stores trying to get in on the sales.

Unlike Amazon, MS's Live store is pretty much a monopoly and theres no competition on the XBox and even outside of that theres very few online stores relatively speaking, most of which aren't sharing the same catalogs. While it'd be nice to see MS do 50 - 70% sales more often, they don't have the same pressure places like Amazon have to do so nor the storage limitations that retail products present.

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Well I don't hate them, but the lack of competition certainly is something that often stops the prices being as competitive as distributers would like consumers to think digital downloads are. In fact many many titles are well above retail prices since they aren't competing and thus theres less pressure to lower prices.

I have nothing against digital distribution, but i refuse to buy into the frame of mind that it's a cheaper way to buy games. In some cases maybe, but more often than not I find the title I want cheaper in retailers.

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