First wave of new Avatar clothing will be free

okay, who the hell's going to pay for clothing for their avitar?? idk about you, but i bought an xbox to play games, not to play with a "doll". On a side note, why don't backgrounds and themes come with games??

I will pay if my avatar can play in a game and the clothing provides benefits. I.e. if I can play fable and buy an invisible cloak i'd pay. If its just a simple sprite over a 3d mesh with no benefits to my live experience fat chance i'd spend more the 5 points on something lol....

I would hope so...

Isn't this tantamount to playing with dolls? I think I'll just keep enjoying playing video games. You know, the reason most of us have a 360?

hey.. some people will pay for their "dolls". Let Micro$oft do whatever they can to make money. I love to see the 360 make more money. More money for Micro$oft=better for us.

BTW when will the first wave of clothes be available?

I bet you would buy a football jersey for your "Doll," wouldn't you? Stop your bitching! You probably bought gamerpics didn't you? same thing. Get over it. Its here to stay.

"Isn't this tantamount to playing with dolls?"

Kind of yes....and kind of no. I'm sure that there are some out there that think the whole Avatar thing is a bit like playing with dolls but I wonder if those people ever played with action figures as children. Dressing up your Avatar can be seen as playing with a doll- or perhaps can be seen as buying a new action figure.

Pretend if you will that you're a nine year old boy who loves Gears of War (I'm sure there are parents of 9 year old's who let their kid play Gears) and a new Gears of War action figure came out. You know damn well that your 9 year old self will be chomping at the bit to get that new figure. Well what if the (insert your age here) could get Marcus Fenix COG outfit for his avatar? (say what you will but for 5 points I'm sure a lot of people [and you'd at least think about it] would buy it)

It's just something else "cool" that you can own if you so wish. How many of you out there shelled out of a special edition of a DVD because it came with some trinket of sorts. Or the Special Edition of Gears for that matter? It's really not that big of a deal- as men we are all grown up boys who no matter what will still like toys and shit to play with.

P.S. If you play WoW you are so totally playing "dolls." The whole point of the game is to level up so you can get fancy new loot so you can dress up your guy. Just like dolls.

The avatar is not a doll.. it is your persona.. it represents you. That being said, I still would never pay for any sort of style or body feature for this. Any clothing or or other feature should be unlocked via Achievements.

/now when does my avatar get a pet?

You would to fag, so read the comment below about you.

That Bills jersey I want with my name on it won't be free, but it had better be cheap.

The Power-T is OK for now but isn't very clear in Keflings...

Will they be adding new facial features, etc.?

I need my soulpatch!!! My avatar is not me unless it has a soulpatch. I have the "chin spike" now, but that isnt close....

I am..BUT only if it not to costly..If this is my image i need ta look hood..lol
thin back to gaming one outfit a year Dog & that's it. i do the same for ps3 home and it's back to the game's.We all like the avatar's but the truth is they make me yawn..cause i like 360 game's more..

Clothing for free... For now. Woohoo!! Way to go micro$oft.

Just to correct something, dreisechzig.net is Boris Schneider-Johne's (Gamertag: KugelBlitz) semi-private blog ;) Not a site he spoke to ;)

Who the hell is going to pay for clothes on your avatar? Shit, mine can stay naked for all i care. I'm here to play games, not dress a friggin doll.

I bet they start taking money from designers Abercrombie or Gap and begin charging for that stuff.

And playing with dolls is an added benefit - that and the fact that I can now post pictures of my dog up to annoy the hell out of all of my friends. I'll probably get booted off of xbox when I start showing my stink eye in pictures.

Just a little hint: dreisechzig(threesixty).net is not some website boris talked to, it's his personal blog :)

More big-headed cartoonish crap. It's like I'm really reading Wii Fanboy.

Here's what I think should happen:

General wear: Occasional Free updates. For casual clothes.
Premium wear: Hopefully costs 100MSP or less per set. For more stylish/exclusive clothes.
Reward wear: Via Unlocking achievements. For game-related clothes/costumes.

Why don't they put that useless gamerscore e-peen to good use and turn achievement points into a currency for this?

I'd pay for real, licensed crap like a Blackhawks jersey or something. But for a generic polo and shorts or some garbage, they can lick my nuts. I wish EVERYONE would show some real community and stop paying for things that should be free. like themes? It's advertising.

We need some band merchandise! I would love for my avatar to be rocking a Killswitch Engage hoodie!

You won't spend a dollar on your avatar. Compared to the rest of you I must be loaded because I don't give a sh!t about a dollar.

im a transexual, im being serious, i would like to somehow display this. If microsoft could fix this, i would appreciate it.

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Personally, I'll make an avatar when my 360 is fixed. It's there, it's free, it's just a bit of fun. It'd be nice if the creation system was as detailed as something like Fallout 3 or Mass Effect, but I don't know how difficult that would be to implement. What worries me is how Microsoft are trying so hard to change the perception of the console. The cutesy nature of the avatars clearly isn't designed with the hardcore or core gaming audience in mind, who neither want or need this, by and large, and is clearly designed in such a way to appeal to the casual, expanded market that Nintendo has so successfully attracted to gaming. And I'm not paying for clothes, they should have unlockables with achievements, like how you could get different armour parts in Halo 3 for ranking up or completing the game on various difficulties. It's more interesting that way. I know I was impressed the first time I saw someone with a samurai sword in a Slayer match. You have to worry where they'll go from here...

It would be a lot better if they made certain achievements unlock avatar apparel.
Since you're playing a wider array of games to get what you want for your virtual self, more money comes back to the game developers and microsoft itself.

Or as someone said, use achievement points to buy stuff, operating the same way as above.