Friday, July 24, 2009

Xbox 360 Avatar Marketplace

There's gonna be an update coming soon, that will allow you to customize your Avatar to your hearts content. Though, it will cost you, as the items bought for your Avatar will cost you Microsoft Points. But you'll be able to purchase clothes resembling video game, such as Secret of Monkey Island and Halo. That's coming next month.

The Avatar Will have a marketplace dedicated to it, accurately named the Avatar Marketplace. It's included in your Avatar customization menu. The clothes and items available in the marketplace will be divided into categories such as styles and games. Off the back, you'll be able to purchase clothing from Halo, Fable 2, and the Secret of Monkey Island.

Though some items for purchase may not be as flashy as others, it'll still allow you to customize your character to look like something out of Halo. The price range can go from 80 to 350+ Microsoft points. There is also a section for "Awardables", which is clothing or accessories that you can gain from games. This section is expected to be featured in later titles.

This is a pretty good announcement for you if you wanna customize your Avatar, to be different from others. Heck, it'll even be good if you want to earn clothing and accessories while playing games. It sounds like a good feature. Playing through Left 4 Dead 2 and getting clothing to resemble one of the characters or zombies. Sounds good enough to me. But some are paranoid that developers won't feel inclined to allow for any Awardables, if they think that they can just sell the clothing for profit. We'll see how the Avatar Marketplace goes. If anything, you can just get Free Microsoft Points as shown in my first post. Take a look!

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