XBLA Crimson Alliance Free!

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ArmDRaisn1

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Hey everyone. I signed onto XBox Live this morning to look at what was new, and I saw Crimson Alliance in the marketplace. The price listed was FREE!! I have no idea why. I know it was supposed to be free if you bought all of the Summer of Arcade titles or something like that, which I did not....I only downloaded the demo for Torchlight.

Anyway, I am downloading it now. I double-checked and my point balance did not change. Thought you all might want to know about this. Hope it works for you, too! :)
 
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Lol you can close the thread it's not actually "free" Microsoft mentioned you can try the full game out as there is no demo version since you need to buy the character classes to actually fully play the game, since some content is blocked off until you pay up. Plus you need to pay to get achievements if that matters for some people

http://www.crimsonalliance.com/news_story.php?story_id=129
 
I like that just 2 classes costs more than the game would itself if released normally, and all 3 classes individually cost twice as much total. Sure, you'd never do it, but it seems really shady.
 
I was excited about this game until now and knowing that it was the "free game" with SOA makes it even worse.

http://www.certainaffinity.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=118

Having to buy the character pack for the price of the game or getting the character pack free if you bought all 5 SOA titles wasn't bad but seeing as how you can buy in-game currency at the rate of 80 points for 40,000 gold is absolutely ridiculous. I understand the I don't have to buy your fucking gold but it shouldn't even be an option. It only leads me to believe that the items in game will be over priced to make individuals feel it nessacary to pay in order to advance. Especially since there are no skill trees and the game is built around equipment upgrades as a method of advancing.

This makes the whole SOA deal feel like a scam.
 
[quote name='radioactivez0r']I like that just 2 classes costs more than the game would itself if released normally, and all 3 classes individually cost twice as much total. Sure, you'd never do it, but it seems really shady.[/QUOTE]
It's not really shady/scam to me, it's just dumb pricing since they're not hiding anything. 560 or 600 points individually would have been much more reasonable. If you don't want to pay that whole extra $5 to get the other 2/3rds of the game, odds are you'll wait for a sale on the pack rather than buy 1/3rd of the game for 2/3rd the price.

Would be much more tempting to be able to buy the game at a low price of $7(.50) and then get another character for another $7(.50), keeping me below/at the price of the total pack but playing at my pace. Then if I really liked the game I'd say screw it and support them by buying the rest. Or getting the last piece on sale to respark my interest.

Maybe I'm crazy.

The comments in that link brings up another great point: it's cheaper to buy an initial character then the character pack ($25) than it is to pick up all three individually ($30) down the road. That's a pretty good way at leaving a player with a bitter taste for your game in their mouth.
 
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