{"id":10767,"date":"2011-03-18T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"microsoft-justifies-extortionate-games-on-demand-prices-in-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/10767-microsoft-justifies-extortionate-games-on-demand-prices-in-theory","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft justifies extortionate Games on Demand prices (in theory)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what might be the most brazen bit of corporate spin ever, Microsoft has justified the somewhat extortionate prices of Xbox LIVE&rsquo;s Games on Demand titles by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2011-03-17-microsoft-justifies-games-on-demand-prices\" target=\"_blank\">claiming<\/a> their convenient, all-hours availability makes all the difference to (impulsive) buyers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No one retailer has the lowest pricing for every product, and our program is about giving people 24 x 7 convenience and selection when shopping for Xbox 360 games,&#8221; a Microsoft spokesperson explained to Eurogamer. &#8220;We&#8217;re incredibly excited about what Games on Demand means for digital distribution, and will continue to evaluate and evolve the service to meet market and consumer demands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Games are regularly added to the service&rsquo;s catalogue at full launch retail prices of around R500-R600, despite &ndash; logically, at least &ndash; saving loads on distribution and packaging costs.<\/p>\n<p>But, you know, sometimes it&rsquo;s 3am, you&rsquo;re about two thirds of a bottle of Klippies down, and you JUST HAVE TO HAVE FIFA STREET 3 RIGHT NOW. Blame yourselves, apparently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11753-MS-explains-Games-on-Demand-pricing?p=385139#post385139\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Games for Windows Live pricing<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically: convenience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}