Talk:Microsoft Points

message: Are there any public sources that have reported how many Microsoft Points have been sold?  It would be an interesting addition to the article.  75.7.33.199 10:03, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I notice that the only stores that are said to sell Prepaid cards are all in the US. I would of thought that naming the stores here could be seen as advertising. Also it fails to say anything about online stores.Inputdata (talk) 17:48, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prepaid cards 

message: "The customer does not earn interest on unspent Points, and cannot convert these Points to another currency."
This line caught my eye. Why would the customer earn interest? It seems like a kind of random addition. I mean, the points don't change colors or sing and dance either, but no one bothers to mention it because it's just kind of assumed that they don't.
Also, I'm going to go ahead and rename this section "Controversy" because "Properties" is kind of vague and doesn't give a good indication of what the section is about. Tophtucker 03:44, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Properties" (...?) 

message: Should mention that the original Xbox Live Arcade used money rather than points. Also, Nintendo has adopted the Points system for the Wii as well.
true but that's a different system of points 71.188.44.87 15:33, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Original Live

message: Under Controversies, it might be worth comparing the points to the chips in Vegas. Casinos prefer you to have the brightly colored chips in your hand to remove (or at least reduce) your association of playing the games with money. Having amounts with the Microsoft's points symbol instead of regional currency symbols can have the same effect. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.26.237.194 (talk) 17:54, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Money is usually brightly coloured though, at least outside the US Nil Einne (talk) 10:37, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vegas Chips... 

message: I frequently use the points cards and found they are extremely robust. Source this claim or remove.
:I frequently used the cards as well and I found them to be far from robust. Over the to years or so that my brother and I bought them, I had about a half dozen cards that were completely unreadable after scratching off the coating and another ten or so that were extremely hard to read. It made for an extremely frustrating experience, especially with all the hoops I had to jump through to try to get the unreadable cards replaced... often in vain. 75.13.228.10 (talk) 13:59, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Faulty Cards 

message: This seems to have some bias attached to it.  The same could be said about the purchase of gift cards.  This statement could lead one to believe that this is unique to Microsoft when in reality, almost all major retail outlets do this same kind of thing. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.55.149.108 (talk) 20:52, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interest-Free Loan 

message: This should be merged with Xbox Live Marketplace imo. AP Shinobi (talk) 14:18, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I would tend to disagree.  There seems to be plenty of content for a separate page, i.e., this page has a substantial amount of information specifically about Microsoft Points.  If this page was folded into the Xbox Live Marketplace page, it would tend to dominate the other information there.  --Slordak (talk) 14:33, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge With XBL Marketplace? 

message: The prices are vastly out of date and should be edited to represent current exchange rates.
203.122.105.24 (talk) 16:04, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated prices 

message: The article currently calls MPs "currency", but isn't it really scrip? 193.173.38.232 (talk) 06:29, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you're right. Retodon8 (talk) 12:44, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Scrip?

message: I feel this article has a critical, not NPOV tone.
Compare to the Wii Points article, where I assume the same negative things could be said.
71.170.222.172 (talk) 03:43, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I did not edit this article in any way, but iTunes or Steam are online systems which allow to buy music (for iTunes) and games (for Steam) with credit cards accounts (or Paypal for Steam, if I remember well). But I agree that the Nintendo Points article should have the same critics. The only point is: people criticized the Microsoft Points system (there are valid sources for that on the paragraph), but did they criticize the Nintendo Points system, even if it's the same situation there? Hervegirod (talk) 15:21, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

text: The criticism is ongoing and notable. It has occurred in numerous places. However, I know Micosoft has recently responded to this criticism. Perhaps we could include their response as well? 24.18.240.121 (talk) 18:35, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: In light of doing some price shopping for XBOX Live Points Cards, I have noticed that there are a large number of websites that now try to trick people into downloading "XBOX LIVE POINTS CARD GENERATORS" in hopes of loading trojans onto their machines. While it is hard to track down concise sources on this malicious activity, I think it may be worth noting in this article that the "free points" that so many search engine results purport to be offering are in actuality, too good to be true. Does anyone else feel the same?
--Dragnilar (talk) 06:29, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There are always this type of scam for any type of online point system of any form; They are hardly noteworthy for MPs specifically. Perhaps a short side-link to an appropriate article, but nothing more in my opinion. DoubleFelix (talk) 12:35, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "Free Points" Card Code / Generator Scams 

message: Is this site official? Considering that it says "Green Cube Corporation" at the bottom, I don't think so. I say remove it, and replace it with a way to officially buy points online, if there is one.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.62.202 (talk) 06:52, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buy Microsoft Points 

message: can you use microsoft points to by online?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.4.106.182 (talk) 23:30, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Microsoft points 

message: Hello. I was wondering if we can put the ¤ symbol in the page. This symbol actually represents the Microsoft Point symbol when viewing a message on live.xbox.com or through the Friendz application for Mac. When ¤ is copied and pasted into a message through Friendz or live.xbox.com and sent to an Xbox Live Friend, it will show up as the Microsoft Point icon when viewed on an Xbox 360.Mmark089 (talk) 07:42, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see the advantage, generally speaking, and it may cause confusion or ambiguity. It may be useful to mention that on these pages/services the symbol (which is the :unicode generic currency symbol) is used replaced with the MSP symbol though, like it is on the symbol's page. There may be some policy relating to that symbol and currencies that don't have symbols defined in unicode, but I don't have time to look right now. Alphathon /'æl.f'æ.θɒn/ (talk) 10:18, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Add the ¤ symbol to the page?