A good choice in my opinion. I hated having to buy fixed amounts of points forcing me to spend more than I need.
Uh, now you will do the same thing but with a normal money value associated with that problem instead. So instead of buying 1600 msp and having ~400 left, you will get a 20$ card and end up with 5$ left.
Thank ****ing god. Hopefully when you get gift cards the money on them will be worth the same as they did for its MS points counterpart (1600 MS points cards would be replaced with $20 cards).
But if you don't buy cards, and buy directly on Xbox... will they still require you to have a specific monetary contribution? Or can you pay exclusively for the content without having extra being wasted.
Well it says you can use a credit/debit card. But then again, it could mean you can only buy fixed gift card amounts to be credited to your account. Hmmmmmmm.
I very much hope they just add a "pay directly with card" option. Seriously, make it easier for me to buy stuff. You'll make more money that way than you ever will by forcing me in to buying funds that I then can't spend due to odd denominations. That makes you a couple of extra bucks in the short term but puts me off buying as much in the long term. Look at Steam. The easier it is to buy stuff, the more people will buy.
it says in the fine print that any MS points unused for longer than a year are voided (from the time you activated the points card)
Don't they do that with the "big game" downloads? I think that's the direction they're trying to go in.
It's about damn time. They said they'd be doing this last year during E3 and haven't heard anything since then.
I've had ~120 msp sitting in my account for a good year and a half, they don't expire. Only points given by a promotion have an expiration. As for what bloo brought up, I would imagine that they'd just charge for what you buy and nothing more, and maybe have an option to load money into an account for later buying (sorta like a steam wallet). So in the case of loading money into the account, THAT would probably be locked to fixed amounts, but the rest should be normal.
do points you purchase expire? because points that i purchased a - Microsoft Community https://commerce.microsoft.com/PaymentHub/Help Microsoft points that you purchase yourself don't expire.