Are people really buying this *crap*? I mean, I could see adding a pet if it was free and I was really bored and happened to be screwing around with my dashboard for some reason - otherwise, I spend about 5 seconds at my dashboard each time I turn on my Xbox. Just long enough to scroll to the game and launch it.
@wild_world_girl: I think most of the sales are generated from the odd 200 points people always seem to have left over. My advice/strategy is to save that and wait until next time I insert points and have another 200 points left over. Over time, that 200 points usually turns into another game.
I want a ferret pet for my avatar, mostly so it could pounce on my Waypoint Monitor and ride it around like a horse before hiding the overgrown lightbulb behind a couch. But alas, no ferret yet.
I'd also settle for my own personal moogle to flutter around behind my avatar, carrying a bucket of water for no good reason.
@Platypus Man: Uh, no. The baby chocobo is a promotion from Square Enix and will be given out for free to whoever registered for their twitter contest.
These pets come from Microsoft and are completely unrelated.
@Quote: I know that, but maybe the chocobo is considered by the avatar system as a pet. Maybe the chocobo, while still being provided by by Square-Enix, is a pet like these and can do similar things and can behave similarly.
That just makes more sense for them, in terms of simplicity.
I've never even had one single microsoft point. I've had my original 360 since a year after launch and now currently have 2. (bought an Elite after RRoD on original)
I was going to buy Lost and the Damned with MS points, but procrastinated and now I'll just get the disc with the other expansion.
I set my little avatar up right after the update that introduced it, and haven't messed with it since.
So after I spend 240 points on a pet...how long until they offer me a rhinestone collar for my dog for an additional 80 points?
Also, do these pets function like just any other prop? Because I'm going to feel REALLY guilty watching my pet gets wiped from existance by a snap of my avatar's fingers.
I don't know what it is about the Avatars but each time I see one they make me want an Xbox 360.
I wish the PS3 allowed for something like these guys or the Mii's. All we have to 'define' ourselves outside of Home are a few dozen really lame static pictures. I don't even think you can buy more of these pictures.
@Dick Socrates: Charity will give use it to pay the 6 figure salary of their great leader, which is the standard going rate. MS will pays the artist to create this junk thus making sure he doesn't have to go to a homeless shelter. So i argue, flush your money into the economy.
@KaneBaker: Well said. The economy is the sum collective of all citizens' spending, and spending, particularly during this recession, should be encouraged during this time of need. People shouldn't live in glass houses, after all, unless they're bullet proof glass to guard against drive by shootings, but even then, people are gonna see you use the restroom, and no one wants that.
@Dick Socrates: If you have time to WASTE, help out a charity. Wasting time on the internet is immoral.
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I with they sold points in 100's.
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Edit: I don't know why I just watched that three times over...
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I'd also settle for my own personal moogle to flutter around behind my avatar, carrying a bucket of water for no good reason.
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These pets come from Microsoft and are completely unrelated.
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That just makes more sense for them, in terms of simplicity.
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Also, anyone can have it free if they register:
[kotaku.com]
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I was going to buy Lost and the Damned with MS points, but procrastinated and now I'll just get the disc with the other expansion.
I set my little avatar up right after the update that introduced it, and haven't messed with it since.
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You're missing out!
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Also, do these pets function like just any other prop? Because I'm going to feel REALLY guilty watching my pet gets wiped from existance by a snap of my avatar's fingers.
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I wish the PS3 allowed for something like these guys or the Mii's. All we have to 'define' ourselves outside of Home are a few dozen really lame static pictures. I don't even think you can buy more of these pictures.
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But I would settle for a surly silverback with a skipper's hat.
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You'd be better off flushing the cash down the toilet, at least then MS wouldn't be getting and you won't have insulted your own intelligence.
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@Dick Socrates: If you have time to WASTE, help out a charity. Wasting time on the internet is immoral.
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Isn't the entire entertainment industry built on charging money for "nothing"?
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