HMV offers 1000 Xbox Live points for GTA IV pre-orders

[jasonnc80]

kingofwale said:

jasonnc80 said:

kingofwale said:
1000 microsoft points is how much in US?

Nice gesture, but won't really do that much. People don't go and say "Oh, you give away 1000 points? Let me buy GTAIV".

Fans of the series will buy it regardless.

Really?

I'm not a big GTA fan (probably won't get it unless used/on sale) but if any retailers in the US were offering a free $12.50 for reserving it I would sign right up.

You would pay for 60 dollar a game you aren't even a fan of to get 12 dollars?

That makes sense to you?

Of course, I'm under the assumption that people have limited disposable income and will only spend money on games they actually want.

I didn't say I wasn't a fan. Just not a big enough fan to drop $60 on release. I still owned/played the old GTA's when they went on sale or picked them up used. Getting an extra $12 on release date would be enough incentive IMO not to wait. I could then use the points for Rock Band DLC or XBLA games.

Also this could be used as another incentive for dual console owners (such as myself) to purchase the game on Microsoft's console.  To just blankly say something like this will have little or no effect at all just seems a little naive to me.