MS Points Currency Converter
To keep with the bling theme of Ingrid’s last post, I’d like to take a quick step over to the console scene and lend a hand to the mathematically uninclined.
Love them or hate them, microtransactions run rampant in the happy land of the Xbox. Spend real money to get virtual money to spend on maps, games, guns and fun. But how much is one MS Point worth in actual currency? And when they say 1200 MS Points, how much is that out of your pocket?
It was only a matter of time really, until the Xbox world had a Xe.com equivalent. Developer Steve Hunter has created the “Unofficial Xbox Microsoft Points Converter“, which allows a user to input any amount of MSPs and automatically have it converted into real world cash. They’ve recently added converstion to Swiss and Norwegian currencies, bringing the total up to eight (GBP, EUR, USD, CAN, JPY, AUD, CHF, NOK).
As an added bonus, you can also select premium content items and XBLA games from pulldown menus and find out just how much an Arwen, Dwarves + More Theme (sounds like a good adult film to me…) will cost you. One dollar, eighty-seven cents, or 150 MSP for those of you keeping count.
Via | Xbox360 Fanboy
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the play girlz gaming blog: because guys aren’t the only players » Uncle Pennybags Outdoes MMORPGs
Jan 3, 2007 at 5:20 am
[…] A while back I had posted a freebie online MS Point Currency Converter, which allowed visitors to check out exactly how much each of those wonderful microtransactions was sapping out of their pocket. Now, in a more pie-in-the-sky perspective on virtual economies and evolving notions of online wealth, Ren Reynolds at Terra Nova has taken a look at exactly how much each MMORPG’s currency is worth compared to two independent standards: the American dollar, and Monopoly bucks. […]
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