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Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell
Ubisoft has apologised to Rainbow Six: Vegas owners who paid 800 Microsoft points (around seven quid) for five downloadable maps last week. It turns out they were meant to be free.
The Black Pack, which we wrote about last Tuesday, offered up a "reduxed" version of "Streets", a "PRESIDIO" from Rainbow Six III and three newcomers.
"Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas Black Pack Downloadable Content for Xbox 360 Live was originally intended to be free content for the fans of Rainbow Six Vegas," Ubisoft said in a statement released through official blogs.
"We apologise for the error. All players who purchased the Black Pack will be reimbursed automatically [within 8 to 10 weeks, according to Microsoft].
"The Black Pack will be posted Saturday June 30th and will be free of charge. Also, as a token of our appreciation for the Rainbow Six community, we are making the Red Pack free as of Friday July 6th as well. Thanks for playing and we hope you enjoy this free content."
True to its word, you can now pop onto Xbox Live Marketplace and download the Black Pack for zero monies. We'll be doing something similar.
Which is to say we'll be playing Pac-Man: Championship Edition instead. 293,000. Take it.
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Der_tolle_Emil
02/07/07 @ 08:23
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Too bad that there was a mistake. Nevertheless I welcome Ubi's effort to put things like this out for free.
Edit: PS3; Oh, that's why they are free.
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Scurrminator
02/07/07 @ 08:26
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probably did it on purpose to draw more attention to it and seem like the 'good guys'
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BadBoyBonner
02/07/07 @ 08:59
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8 - 10 weeks - Cheeky twats - doesn't seem to take that long for the points to leave your account when you purchase something.
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BadBoyBonner
02/07/07 @ 09:02
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never bought a single thing (extras with MS - tempted with Crackdown but resisted) myself - and is my only positive (as yet) take of the PS3 which is effectivley forcing Microsoft to stop being money grabbing C**ts for a second, when the same content is released on PS3 without charge.
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kangarootoo
02/07/07 @ 09:34
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I'm actually pretty impressed by that. They could have just said nothing and kept the cash. Its not like they were legally bound to do this in any way and big companies tend to like money to much to give it back if they can help it.
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kangarootoo
02/07/07 @ 09:36
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@BadBoyBonner
MS don't decide what contant is free and what gets charged for. If you are referring to the charge for XBLive then fair enough (though I might suggest that XBLive is actually brilliant and worth the money), but if you are talking about the content at the centre of this article you can't really vent at MS for the potential costs involved. |
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el bandito
02/07/07 @ 09:47
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@kangarootoo:
I thought MS did have a big say in what the charges are. Epic mentioned they wanted the Gears maps to be free, but MS would only agree to them being free after a certain period. I'm sure they said something along the lines of "It's their Marketplace, they can charge what they want" Could be wrong though... it's early :) Edit: May be different as MS was the publisher for Gears I suppose...
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ProtoformX
02/07/07 @ 10:03
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Interesting - the initial assigning of points to your Live account and thus the taking of your money is alost instantaneous. But when Microsoft have to refund points it takes a lot longer. They're probably making people wait because they're due to announce some figures to shreholders or somethig soon and they wanna keep hold of the points until then.
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GamerAddict
02/07/07 @ 10:50
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"Also, as a token of our appreciation for the Rainbow Six community, we are making the Red Pack free as of Friday July 6th as well."
What about all of us who HAVE bought the red pack?! What about our thanks?! God I'm hating Ubi more n more every day! |
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You got to play it for a few months before the rest of us. Whats the problem? You should be happy (you certainly were at the time I assume)..everyone being able to get the Red Pack will mean your game gets more players to play against, prolonging it.
Did you moan when they started bundling games in with consoles? Or when you buy a bottle of coke one day and the next Tesco are doing buy one get one free? |
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Everything should stay at a fixed value because once I have bought something it should never devalue and mean that I could have got it cheaper if I had waited because that is wrong and it's awful that Ubi are doing this because nothing else in the world depreciates so optional map packs for games should be the same it is terrible I hate Ubisoft they are wrong did you know that Rainbow Six vegas is available for £18 now I paid £30 for it and I feel robbed it's as if they came in to my house and stole my mother's ashes off the mantlepiece.
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PatrickEwing
02/07/07 @ 12:01
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@ IamBatman, My head hurts after trying to decipher your post. Aside from that, I can't agree with your reasoning, things do get cheaper as time goes on.
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