Ancient Marvel Ultimate Alliance DLC is 'deal of the week'

by Alexander Sliwinski { May 18th 2009 at 5:50PM }

Sorry, after the Bionic Commando Rearmed Xbox "deal of the week" was yanked, we found the bottom of a couple pint glasses. Anyway, the actual deal this week is Marvel Ultimate Alliance's H/V Pack for 560

($7) -- a pitiful $3 off some DLC from 2007. It's time we talked seriously about hiring a disapproving church lady to sit in Microsoft's marketing office with a stern look on her face.

On a good note, this "deal" was so lambasted in the comments of Major Nelson's post that he said, "I'll pass your comments along to the Marketing team."

Tags: deal-of-the-week, marvel-ultimate-alliance

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

silver DewSky @ May 18th 2009 5:54PM

yeah, some of these deals have been great, but most of them I have passed on getting.

silver DewSky @ May 18th 2009 5:55PM

yeah some of these deals have been great, but most I have passed on getting.

dylan @ May 18th 2009 6:14PM

Not only 3 years old, but should have been unlockables in the first place.

Dowse @ May 18th 2009 7:02PM

Amen

Bootleg Zani @ May 18th 2009 7:29PM

Well once again Deal of the Week sucks. BCR needs to be $5 soon on XBL.

Sokkratez @ May 18th 2009 7:42PM

This is actually really good marketing. It's marketing for MUA2 -- that they get paid for.

Latin_Trident @ May 18th 2009 7:50PM

Seriously, I am going to spear some MS marketing people with the flaming trident found on my right!

Latin_Trident @ May 18th 2009 7:51PM

*Left

Regular Pants @ May 19th 2009 4:13AM

Vince just sold me this DLC after I ordered the Slap Chop and a Shamwow. Damn that guy is good.

HitNRun @ May 18th 2009 8:26PM

1) Shouldn't have been DLC in the first place
2) Shouldn't cost so much
3) Is years old; the last people who cared about it stopped playing it over a year ago, when they finished it after getting it free with their 360
4) Even with $3 off, it's about $5 more than I'd pay for basically nothing.
5) There are tens of thousands of items and hundreds of downloadable games on XBL. How hard is it to offer a deal every week only to Gold subscribers that doesn't make MS look pathetic and greedy?

cuteSAVAGE @ May 19th 2009 9:09AM

On point number five - How hard is it to regularly discount and permanently discount all items on XBLM? Screw this one item a week bs. It's sad that the only discounted items are always completely irrelevant. Alien Homminid and Penny Arcade being the only worthwhile deals thus far, and we already had them because they were good enough at full price.

They need to start permanently discounting almost half the XBLA library (Great games like Penny Arcade 2, Meteos Wars, Exit 2, and Flock! are all set to permanently reside at the bottom of the most popular list) and they need to make map packs / DLC that have been out for at least 6-12 months free or at least 50% off.

dark_inchworm (on Steam!) dark inchworm (on XBL!) @ May 19th 2009 10:02AM

@cuteSAVAGE: What, Braid at 800 wasn't a deal? I was pretty happy with the purchase, myself. On top of that, I wasn't one of the folks accidentally charged full price, but I still got a 400 + 100 point refund. 500 points for nothing. Quite cool, and I've still yet to decide what to do with it.