The new Avatar update for Xbox 360

[Srkkl]

As most all Xbox Live users know today the new update for Avatars/Netflix came out today(for the U.S. at least). Now the main difference that everyone is talking about is new gear for your Avatar that you can puchase.

I personally just looked over the gear that you can obtain using XBL points and I thought most of them were cool(Splinter Cell: Conviction gear, Gears 2 armor, shirts, hats ect.) but, and this is a big but, I don't see them worth costing up to 400 points for. I mean why would you pay a little over 4 bucks for somthing that you can't even use for entertainment, only to further display your love for a certain game, which you can basically do using the motto or bio. What does the Escapist community think? Am I just nit picking? Or do people share my oppinion? Is there any way they could've made this better?

 

[Nargleblarg]

Great another way for microsoft to make money.

 

[grimsprice]

how else is microsoft going to pay for all the money they wasted on natal? when that flops they need something else to fall back on...

 

[DarkMessiah]

As I said to my friend after I updated, I'm not going to pay for something that's useless. Avatars are used in a very small amount of games, most of them arcade, and it's not like a can't make a satisfactory little animated me without shelling out a few hundred MS points for.
The unlockable items that will come with new games, I can see the point in. It's an incentive, and it's probably more worthwhile than just <Achievement Noise, meaningless number updated>.

 

[GodsOneMistake]

Okay I'll admit it..... (Sigh) I BAUGHT A BIG DADDY HELMET WITH THE EXTRA POINTS I JUST DOWNLOADED FOR FALLOUT 3 DLC.... ohhh Glad I got that off my chest..

*bracing myself to be shunned by everybody*

EDIT: But a lot of that shit was WAYYYYY too expensive, I mean at least make the gears helmet come with the armor instead of being separate

 

[Srkkl]

As I said to my friend after I updated, I'm not going to pay for something that's useless. Avatars are used in a very small amount of games, most of them arcade, and it's not like a can't make a satisfactory little animated me without shelling out a few hundred MS points for.
The unlockable items that will come with new games, I can see the point in. It's an incentive, and it's probably more worthwhile than just <Achievement Noise, meaningless number updated>.

I did think that was a good idea but there is absolutly no discription of how to get them, so I'm not sure if that's how you get them.

 

[AgentChunk]

I think they should have let u spend your achievement points on them. That way they actually do something.

 

[Srkkl]

Okay I'll admit it..... (Sigh) I BAUGHT A BIG DADDY HELMET WITH THE EXTRA POINTS I JUST DOWNLOADED FOR FALLOUT 3 DLC.... ohhh Glad I got that off my chest..

*bracing myself to be shunned by everybody*

Thats not bad, thats like two bucks, one of my friends downloaded the Splinter Cell elite thing and a lightsaber, Like 9 bucks. Although your feeding the demon haha.

 

[Thunderhorse31]

Overpriced garbage. "Oooo I can spend $5 for a set of COG armor and be unique - just like everyone else!" But really, what else is new?

That said, I would very much enjoy unlockable outfits/props for getting certain achievements in the actual games. Like, if you beat Mile High Club on Vet you should get Capt. Price's mustache.

 

[DarkMessiah]

As I said to my friend after I updated, I'm not going to pay for something that's useless. Avatars are used in a very small amount of games, most of them arcade, and it's not like a can't make a satisfactory little animated me without shelling out a few hundred MS points for.
The unlockable items that will come with new games, I can see the point in. It's an incentive, and it's probably more worthwhile than just <Achievement Noise, meaningless number updated>.

I did think that was a good idea but there is absolutly no discription of how to get them, so I'm not sure if that's how you get them.

Yeah, I know we haven't been officially told yet but I assumed it would be something along the lines of them unlocking with certain achievements, or with other specific criteria the way armour permutations unlocked in Halo 3.

 

[Joshimodo]

how else is microsoft going to pay for all the money they wasted on natal? when that flops they need something else to fall back on...

Because motion control/immersion has completely failed this gen.../sarcasm


Anyway, I think it's somewhat useless. Paying 400 MS points for a set of clothes for a fake-me? No thanks. However, wasting those annoying 40/80/160 points is now much easier, wooh.

As I said to my friend after I updated, I'm not going to pay for something that's useless. Avatars are used in a very small amount of games, most of them arcade, and it's not like a can't make a satisfactory little animated me without shelling out a few hundred MS points for.
The unlockable items that will come with new games, I can see the point in. It's an incentive, and it's probably more worthwhile than just <Achievement Noise, meaningless number updated>.

I did think that was a good idea but there is absolutly no discription of how to get them, so I'm not sure if that's how you get them.

It is. Not always linked to achievements, but they are obtained via doing something in-game, such as Splosion Man's breaking glass (lame, I know) to get the t-shirt.

 

[Nannernade]

Overpriced garbage. "Oooo I can spend $5 for a set of COG armor and be unique - just like everyone else!" But really, what else is new?

That said, I would very much enjoy unlockable outfits/props for getting certain achievements in the actual games. Like, if you beat Mile High Club on Vet you should get Capt. Price's mustache.

Why the moustache?

As far as this thread goes I will admit I spent some points that were just wasting away on my account, but I do feel bad because the moment I spent them I realized that Map Pack 3 was available for COD:WaW so now I need 400 more points. =\ Oh well at least my Avatar looks like a Spetznaz Operative now. =P

 

[GodsOneMistake]

Okay I'll admit it..... (Sigh) I BAUGHT A BIG DADDY HELMET WITH THE EXTRA POINTS I JUST DOWNLOADED FOR FALLOUT 3 DLC.... ohhh Glad I got that off my chest..

*bracing myself to be shunned by everybody*

EDIT: But a lot of that shit was WAYYYYY too expensive, I mean at least make the gears helmet come with the armor instead of being separate

I'm pissed that we didn't get the Big Daddy suit -.-

maybe it's a prize from beating Bioshock 2..... I managed to get around the sillyness by giving my guy a hawaiian shirt and swimming trunks.... -.- well maybe he does look a little silly still

 

[Srkkl]

Anyway, I think it's somewhat useless. Paying 400 MS points for a set of clothes for a fake-me? No thanks. However, wasting those annoying 40/80/160 points is now much easier, wooh.

As I said to my friend after I updated, I'm not going to pay for something that's useless. Avatars are used in a very small amount of games, most of them arcade, and it's not like a can't make a satisfactory little animated me without shelling out a few hundred MS points for.
The unlockable items that will come with new games, I can see the point in. It's an incentive, and it's probably more worthwhile than just <Achievement Noise, meaningless number updated>.

I did think that was a good idea but there is absolutly no discription of how to get them, so I'm not sure if that's how you get them.

It is. Not always linked to achievements, but they are obtained via doing something in-game, such as Splosion Man's breaking glass (lame, I know) to get the t-shirt.

Well I'm glad somone has answers about that, it's kinda lame it doesn't work for old games though, or at least it doesn't seem to. Although I kinda get pissed when I only have like 40 points left so I could use that to get rid of them, however for 80 points I can get a Rockband song which actually provides entertainment.

 

[Kadamon]

Overpriced garbage. "Oooo I can spend $5 for a set of COG armor and be unique - just like everyone else!" But really, what else is new?

That said, I would very much enjoy unlockable outfits/props for getting certain achievements in the actual games. Like, if you beat Mile High Club on Vet you should get Capt. Price's mustache.

Why the moustache?

As far as this thread goes I will admit I spent some points that were just wasting away on my account, but I do feel bad because the moment I spent them I realized that Map Pack 3 was available for COD:WaW so now I need 400 more points. =\ Oh well at least my Avatar looks like a Spetznaz Operative now. =P

Why NOT the moustache? Capt. Price's mustache is basically an old-time porno mustache!

 

[link141]

I didn't like the avatar update.I mean why pay for stuff you can't use

 

[Joshimodo]

Well I'm glad somone has answers about that, it's kinda lame it doesn't work for old games though, or at least it doesn't seem to. Although I kinda get pissed when I only have like 40 points left so I could use that to get rid of them, however for 80 points I can get a Rockband song which actually provides entertainment.

I'd rather stick with the imaginary crap than pay to pretend to play a song that I already own.

Anyway, yeah, it sucks that it's not backwards-compatible. Guess the next "big" title that will no doubt use the award system will be Halo: ODST.

I didn't like the avatar update.I mean why pay for stuff you can't use

Then don't, nobody is forcing you to.

 

[Curtmiester]

Like everyone else, it's over-priced. But I can't wait till Assassin's Creed 2, for the coat reward. THEY WILL HAVE IT!