Tue, Nov 16, 2010 | 10:04 GMT
Games for Windows Marketplace launches, offers Borderlands for £7.49
As promised, the Games for Windows Marketplace has been reborn.
The store’s interface seems very Steamy in its colour-picks, and the UI is clutter-free. These impressions are based on looking at the site for less than 10 seconds.
Prices aren’t that amazing: Dead Rising 2 is £30, but at least Borderlands is on sale for £7.49. Bargain.
The general Games for Windows Live relaunch includes voice upgrades, Live ID upgrades and more. Get the details here.
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Posted in: Hot, PC, Retail
Tags: borderlands, games for windows live marketplace, gearbox software
13 comments
#1
endgame
16/11/10, 8:10 am
from the url: “en-US/”. so has anyone from europe tried to buy anything? does it work?
#2
Patrick Garratt
16/11/10, 8:20 am
I’ve changed the URL to the UK store.
#3
Broncanus
16/11/10, 8:53 am
Blood Stone Now “only” £39.99
How much was it before…?!!
#4
mac
16/11/10, 9:03 am
What do you mean “prices seem fine” there isn’t one price on their that isn’t available cheaper elsewhere???
#5
AHA-Lambda
16/11/10, 9:18 am
well borderlands price is good but that’s basically the only one
hell its £22 for FO3 and i can get the GOTY edition for less than that O_o
#6
Patrick Garratt
16/11/10, 9:46 am
@4 – You can always get stuff cheaper elsewhere, innit. It didn’t seem that expensive. I did literally only look at it for a minute.
#7
AHA-Lambda
16/11/10, 10:00 am
bloodstone on pc for £40 isnt cheap, especially when its £30 on steam =/
#8
mac
16/11/10, 10:03 am
@6 But for the re-re-re-re-re-launch of a service, wouldn’t you have thought that they would have something worth peoples time to encourage people to install their client and use the service – why else would people choose to use this rather than the other services?
#9
Patrick Garratt
16/11/10, 10:05 am
OK. I’ve removed the word “fine”
#10
AHA-Lambda
16/11/10, 10:06 am
“But for the re-re-re-re-re-launch of a service”
ok i loled XD
#11
mac
16/11/10, 10:30 am
@9 I have no problem with you using the term “re-re-re-re-re-launch” either :p
#12
Aimless
16/11/10, 10:34 am
I’m still impressed by how bad a name “Games For Windows Live” is. Did they borrow Sony’s naming guru for the day or something?
Anyway, I only see one real advantage to using this service: if you get your hands on some discount MS points you can pay with those, potentially scoring you some games on the cheap. Assuming they were priced reasonably to begin with.
#13
scuz
16/11/10, 10:36 am
/rubs his grubby hands together for black friday on steam.