It's an improvement over what it was, but here in Canada at least, most, not all, but most of the games are priced higher then they are at retail (well, futureshop at least), by around 5-20 bucks depending on the game (Fallout 3, for instance, is only 35 bucks at futureshop, but it is $60 online. That's the biggest one, the rest have less of a descrepency in pricing, but still around 10 dollars more. Why???). It leaves me very little insentive to buy anything off of the service at this point.
Hopefully, we start seeing more games arriving on the service, and at fair prices (Microsoft is notorious for their odd pricing schemes, they can be all over the map). Get some indie titles on here, some ports (or upgraded ports) of XBLA titles, some remakes of older PC games, and some more original content, and I think the service will have a chance. And the UI needs a lot of work, still no universal in-game/out of game client yet.
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