Battlefield 3 Beta(Partially) Live, costs 4,294,967,295 Microsoft Points.

[Chicago Ted]

For the record...

4,294,967,295 MS points = $53,687,091.19 USD = $ 66,571,993.07 CAD = £ 36,807,869.72 = ? 51,539,607.54

Just wanted to point that out to everyone.

That would be nice if your exchange rates were not way out of wack.

They do not. At best, they'll fix the insane amount of bugs they have with the game. So yes, this is essentially a glorified demo.

Actually no what you described right here is the entire purpose of a beta. To find and fix bugs. Mabey do a few minor balance changes to the weapons but that is all.

I didn't run the exchange rates through a current system, but through the MS Calculator. It's not completely equal though. I know for a fact that Canadians such as myself pay more for Microsoft Points than Americans do. While it might not be 100% accurate and current, I believe it's attempting to show the difference as well between what the countries would pay for it.

 

[Tharwen]

My friend had a glitch on the Dungeon Crawl website were it wanted to charge him $9999.99 (I think it was for the same game too).

I'm curious as to how these 'stuff-ups' occur. Especially for someone like Microsoft. You'd think there would be some sort of [way of checking these things before they go out].

Lost my train of thought.

Likely an issue with the maximum integer.

You sound like you know your polynomials from your <very similar word that rhymes with "polynomials" but is unrelated to the field of mathematics that it is>

Is there a layman's explanation for what that is? How that works? Why it's used? How it can go from $79.95 to $4,987,386,128,566,381,992,001,982.95

It's probably less of a bug than 'someone added it to the store without setting a price value so it used the default value'.

And the default value for XBOX Live is 4,294,967,295 Microsoft Points?!

Still it makes sense to have the default value -1 MP so it's impossible to purchase without destroying the universe first. Or by some maths, making sure if there is a bug then it is shown as a ridiculously high value, so that people wouldn't even buy it if they had 500'000 dollars.

So that you don't have a whole load of naively excited gamers buy it for $12.73, and then have to apologise later with a straight face, fighting the urge to say: "Are you dumb or what? Did you really think there wasn't anything fishy with an unreleased game being Gee-hash-apostropy-bracket-five-poundsign-Q-3 dollars and 99 cents? What country you from? They use MouseTrap pieces as currency there?"

I think you're right, and they set it to the maximum just in case this ever happened.

The reason why it's that number specifically is that 4,294,967,295 is 2^64, which fits very neatly into 8 bytes. Because they set the number to only be positive, setting it to -1 makes it overflow to the highest value.

 

[Virmire]

Was this before it was live or something? Little confused. If so are you guys sure it's not a glitch? I'm not bragging or anything, but the demo is free on the psn, COMPLETELY free, no PS+ requirement. Would be very odd to charge for it on the Xbox, but not on the PSN. Doubly odd if its not PS+ exclusive.

 

[Leg End]

Was this before it was live or something? Little confused. If so are you guys sure it's not a glitch? I'm not bragging or anything, but the demo is free on the psn, COMPLETELY free, no PS+ requirement. Would be very odd to charge for it on the Xbox, but not on the PSN. Doubly odd if its not PS+ exclusive.

It was before it was live.

Specifically, as is with stuff like this, was put on the marketplace. It wasn't ready yet, so they set it to -1 point. Try to buy it, you get a 10 digit price tag.

Now that it's live, the thread title is a little confusing.