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If you’re currently hoarding a few extra Microsoft Points on your Xbox LIVE account, you may want to consider buying your avatar a fancy new hat, because Microsoft might be cashing out of the points business. Inside Mobile Apps is reporting that 2012 will be the curtain call for the Microsoft Points system. This news purportedly comes from a “source with knowledge of the company’s decision.” Obviously, it doesn’t sound very official, but I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed that Microsoft finally discontinues the awful points system. Every single points-based payment system in existence was created on the notion that the points and the purchase price are never quite equal. So, you’ll always have to spend 5 or 10 extra bucks to get that game, DLC, or avatar outfit that you’ve got your eye on. 
I, personally, would be far more inclined to buy something from the Xbox LIVE marketplace if I knew that I wasn’t being fleeced by the points system. So, obviously, I can wholeheartedly get behind this decision. By Josh Engen |