Lode Runner reloaded to 1200 MS Points [update]

Concur. When Major first announced it during his podcast at 1200, I thought, "I'll play the demo. If it looks like there's some life in it, I'll buy it." But at 800, it's almost a no brainer. If ONLY other companies would realize - 1 purchase at 800 is better than 0 purchase at 1200. Guess what else? I'll be for every 1 purchase at 800, you could get 3 people to buy at 400. Anyone of this devs taking an economics class?

Amen bother!

Well. Forget that, then.

fortunatly for me i bought it when it was listed at 800,
i got the full and i still only paid 800 points

The same for me. I guess that's one benefit to being an early riser and being up at 5:30 every day ...

Nah, it happens on both the 360 and from the website. For me anyway.I tried both.

hmmm - it worked for me.

At 800 points it is a no brainer - I played it in 1983 on the C64 - now I will play it 26 years later on my 360!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nevermind - back to 1200 it is. I guess I don't want it as badly now.

Hells Yeah! I got it at 6AM :) 800 points yoink!

Oh, Jonathan... where do we even begin? Oh, wait, I know!

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/l/loderunnerxboxlivearcade/

Note the developer there... notice how it's not a studio owned by MS? Okay, excellent, that's important for this next bit, see if you can follow along: MS DOES NOT SET THE PRICE OF XBLA GAMES, THE DEVELOPER DOES. Sorry for using block caps, I didn't want you to miss that though, as it's a rather salient bit of info. So what does this mean though? Well, it means no matter what MS sees, they can only advise people on how to price their games, MS does not set the price of XBLA titles themselves.

Now then, you know how you were talking about that "sells" spike? Well, this is the first day the game has been on sale, and the 800msp price was around for less than 12hrs. The only people who have noticed/heard about this pricing snafu are hardcore gamers; folks like myself who were up at 2am waiting to buy this the second it came down the pipe, as well of course those who frequent blogs such as Joystiq. This group of people (you and I and other visitors to this site, etc.) we are discussing are a very, very small fraction of the number of the console-owning population. So it's safe to say the vast majority of gamers had no idea this pricing snafu occurred, and the first day sales XBLA games enjoy will no doubt still be enjoyed by Load Runner.

Okay...okay....so replace Microsoft with every game studio. If they noticed that they are losing sales (as evidenced by comments across the web), perhaps they'd stop this excessive pricing.

Why not say...follow Grin's example? I mean, they did an HD remake of a classic game (similar in idea to Lode Runner) very well made with great production values, AND they were also making a game for PC, 360, and PS3 (the next-gen Bionic Commando). Despite all of this, they STILL only charged 800 Microsoft Points/$9.99.

But I'm curious....how do you know that Microsoft do not set the price? Both Penny Arcade games, for example are 1600 points on Live, yet they are only $14.99 on PSN. How do you explain that? If the developers determine the price, why would they choose to make the PSN version $5 cheaper?

Blah, blah, blah....what I really want to know is....why are you defending the soon-to-be-standard price of 1200 MS points?

I purchased it here from my office at 800pts. It is sitting in my download queue. Can't wait to go home and play.

If it had that game included, it would be worth the $15 no question. I bought the XBLA version this morning for $8, but I do not see the original or any of the older games included. Maybe it unlocks it? There's a history section with a screenshot of the old game.

It does not. And actually, all the maps are new. It doesn't have the original 150 maps. It has a total of 220 maps now, to include the new modes.

while this was an error, i agree about ms doing sales every so often. heck remember texas hold 'em was free for the first 48 hours (?) it was out. i snagged that and then it went up to 800 msp after that promotional period.

.....they won't learn that, because you actually spent 1200 points on it.

By the way, since when did frustration become fun?

It is people like you that caused the prices to go as high as they have. Paying more than $10 for a game that has been around for over 20 years just because they slap a new coat of paint on it and add online multi-player. I thought that this was(fun, but can play the older ones for free) too much at 800 and 1200 is just stupid.
I guess, at the very least, it is a lot better than Flock for $15.

Really getting sick of these Arcade prices. The last Arcade game I bought was, I think, Duke 3D. I will get Banjo-Tooie(even though Rare are dicks), but that is only because I missed out on it the first time around and I can't find it for less than $15 for the N64.

what a tool! you complain about the pricing of arcade being too high in the same post as you saying you bought one of these overpriced arcade games??!!