Money For Gamerscore

If you're not yet sick of microtransactions, Microsoft has more in store for your Xbox Live shopping experience. Whereas all Xbox 360 games currently have 1000 possible points inside them that can be added to your cumulative Gamerscore, they're bending the rules a bit to let developers make some of those points accessible only through content downloads:

1. All regular disc-based games MUST have 1,000 Gamerscore in the base game. This means that any consumer who buys a retail game will have the opportunity to unlock the full 1,000 Gamerscore without having to pay for any add-on content. Note that a publisher may decide to deliver a portion of this Gamerscore via add-on content, but the add-on content will always be free to the consumer.

2. Game publishers will have the option to deliver another 250
incremental Gamerscore on top of the 1,000 via add-on content from
Marketplace. This add-on content could be either free or paid. So if you complete a game and earn the full 1,000 GS, you could by getting new add-on content earn up to a total of 1,250 points from a game.

Hopefully these extra points will come alongside real new content, and not just content that's already on the disc you bought. But I suppose we can't have everything.

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