Quarem

Right now I've been playing a lot of Quake 4 online. It's a totally under-rated game on the 360. On top of that I've been enjoying some Chromehounads, and more recently Dead Rising.

I really hope so. I love the UT series and I would hate not to be able to play it on my Xbox 360. If they do not do a 360 version than I guess I'll miss this version because there is no way I have the cash for a PS3 or a PC to play it.

When MS announced the Xbox Live Marketplace it was supposed to be about microtransactions. Yet there are very few items on there that I would consider to be microtransactions. Themes, gamer picture packs, horse armor are all >$1. A dollar is not a microtransaction; in my mind a microtransactions is something that you can count with pennies and nickles, and possibly dimes. I do not have a big problem with all the content on the Marketplace that developers are trying to charge for, what I do have a problem with is their prices.

Horse armor is just the last in a laundry list full of overpriced items on the Marketplace at the moment. Now if the horse armor was priced accordingly with the value add it brings to the game, say a couple cents. Let's say a whole nickle, or 5 Microsoft Points, that would be a microtransaction I could get behind, and I bet a whole lot of people would not be complaining about Bethesda on forums and instead would be riding around on their new pimped out ponies.

So I say to Bethesda, to other developers and to Microsoft, price your stuff on the XBLM accordingly. Make it a microtransaction of only a few MSP and you'll virtually eliminate gamer outrage, and sell a hell of a lot more content.