Microsoft: MS Points not to mislead people about prices
After years of employing the Microsoft Points system, the company now feels the need to explain why they went for the MS Points instead of just putting the actual prices. This comes just after the rumor earlier this month that Microsoft will soon be ditching this system for the Xbox Live.
After years of employing the Microsoft Points system, the company now feels the need to explain why they went for the MS Points instead of just putting the actual prices. This comes just after the rumor earlier this month that Microsoft will soon be ditching this system for the Xbox Live.
Explained Aaron Greenberg, “We never intended to ever mislead people. We want to be transparent about it, and so it is something that we’re looking at.”
This transparency he is talking about can be achieved through a singular system of pricing that is embodied by the MS Points system. He further expounds:
“How can we be more transparent and let people see it in actual dollars? You’ve got to think that we have one service that we’re offering around the world. The nice thing about Points is that no matter if you’re on the JPY, the EUR or the USD – something that’s 200 Points is 200 Points everywhere around the world.
There’s more technical complexities to being able to put local prices in. You have to do that for every product in every country and then you have to deal with currency fluctuations. So there’s some challenges to that, but we absolutely did it with Games on Demand, response hase been good and absolutely it’s something we’re looking at doing.”
Via [Brave New Gamer]
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