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Poll: how much do you spend on MS Points?


Update: This poll is now closed. Check out the latest Fancast for our discussion of the results. You can view the final results after the break.

So, putting together a little tax info this morning, I decided to check out how much money I'd spent on Xbox 360 related things. $299 for a Core System (I know, but it's all they had), $99 for a hard drive, all that stuff. Delving a little deeper, I decided to check on all the the online purchases I'd made, which led me to MS Points purchased for content on Marketplace. From June (when I started here at X3F) to December 2006, I have purchased a staggering 7500 MS Points, equivalent to $93.75. That's almost two entire retail games.

X3F wants to know how much you've spent on MS Points in the last 12 months. To check your own account, follow this link, enter your .NET info, and click "Points" on the left side of the screen. You can access your transactions from up to 12 months ago. Add up your running total and submit your answer in the poll. Of course, if you don't want to go through all that trouble, you could always guess. Place your vote after the break.


So, what did you wind up spending? Are you surprised? We'll discuss the results during the next Fancast.

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21. From April 06 to present, I've bought 41,200 points. 22 1600 point cards and 3 Zune 2000 point cards. That's a total of $515! Damn you X3F! I would of never known! :)

Posted at 3:20PM on Mar 15th 2007 by HazyCloud

22. 4000 points, or $54. Some of you guys are nuts with the amount of points you buy. Do you also buy every piece of crap EA puts out?

Posted at 3:21PM on Mar 15th 2007 by Arno

23. I have spent a total of 10,800 points which comes to 134.95

Posted at 3:35PM on Mar 15th 2007 by Phil Havens

24. Geometry Wars and two Oblivion add-ons. That's it.

Posted at 3:58PM on Mar 15th 2007 by BadVermin

25. I've purchased 11,900 points over the last 10 months, or almost $150. I enjoy the weekly arcade releases, and about 1/2 the time, I end up purchasing it. I still spend most of my time playing Hold'em, which was free :) Since I don't buy many game discs, it's a nice way for M$ to keep getting paid and for me to have something new. Also, $10/20 a month doesn't make the wife too crazy.

It's funny, though, I was just thinking last night that I would never spend $5, $10, $15 here and there to download casual games on my PC, but on the 360, it's quite easy.

ZappaKitty

Posted at 4:05PM on Mar 15th 2007 by ZappaKitty

26. I've spend $74.
The only downloads I regret purchasing are Novadrome and a couple of picture packs (that was before websites like Matt Brett's). Other than that I think it has all been great value.

Posted at 4:11PM on Mar 15th 2007 by Raydahz

27. Roundabout 75$ (5970 points). 5 games, 4 movies (3 in HD) assorted content and a couple of picture packs.

Posted at 4:15PM on Mar 15th 2007 by King Keepo

28. Phew, I don't feel so bad anymore, I've only dropped about $130 on points over the past year... That being said, I plan to add another $40 to that stack this weekend...

Posted at 4:35PM on Mar 15th 2007 by AoE

29. It's nice to see that I'm actually near the average... I've only got $75... the only purchases I regret are probably Lumines... maybe that's the only one. Definitely not as cool as everyone made it sound.

Posted at 4:38PM on Mar 15th 2007 by Ninegauger

30. Nothing so far and i've had my box for a year, but I will be purchasing worms soon enough just count that as like what 15 right?

Damn some of you gamers need to cut down on the point purchases, 500 in a year on just points thats crazy stuff

Posted at 4:44PM on Mar 15th 2007 by Gaurav

31. $40 Canadian

Posted at 4:51PM on Mar 15th 2007 by The Phil

32. I suck at math. I found 12,000 points purchased, but it only went back to April 2006. I've had my 360 since launch, and have been funding the Microsoft microtransaction machine ever since.
19 arcade games. Some themes. Some gamer pics. A few TV shows and almost a movie a week.
I love not having to leave the couch to get all this stuff, so Microsoft is welcome to keep tempting me with paid downloadable content.

Posted at 5:02PM on Mar 15th 2007 by zenprism

33. 22,830 points spent ($285.375 US). A lot more than I thought ... And, except for those worthless Chromehounds downloads, I don't regret any of it.

I'd like to say that I'll try to spend less in the future; but there's no way. Downloads coming for RSV and Crackdown ... No way at all that I'm done buying/spending MS points.

Posted at 5:16PM on Mar 15th 2007 by Lion

34. 42100 Points since april of last year, which rounds out to 526.04 USD. of course i work at a Gamestop so its actually 447.14 USD. Still ouch....

Posted at 5:17PM on Mar 15th 2007 by Evan

35. 6000 points for me to date. Not too bad, but it's definitely worth reviewing. Thanks for posting this.

Posted at 5:42PM on Mar 15th 2007 by Wilson

36. I've bought 10,500 points or $132 worth of stuff, and there will be another $30 when Shivering Isles comes out. I've bought every piece of Oblivion DLC so far, even Horse Armor.

Posted at 5:46PM on Mar 15th 2007 by Mogul218

37. I try not to put and unnescessary money in the "white mans" pocket so i bought only one 1600 point card with a gift card from target. I had it since early january and i have about 100 points left so it looks like i wont be seeing any xblm downloads unless something is FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 6:07PM on Mar 15th 2007 by Blaine Train

38. 9,000 points/$112.50 since April 2006

Posted at 6:15PM on Mar 15th 2007 by Rubbinz

39. I've only spent $40 so far and I've had my 360 since Dec '05. And right now I'm currently not going to spend much more since I have loads from the FutureWeapons giveaway. I didn't get any from the first day it opened but on the last day (Monday night I think), not many people must have signed up since every one of my dud e-mails got some points.

Posted at 6:18PM on Mar 15th 2007 by Retrofied

40. My e-mail keeps coming late..

Posted at 6:19PM on Mar 15th 2007 by Retrofied

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