Xbox Live Diamond Card - Coming soon!

[Jade_Dragonfly]

Hey everyone,

If you haven't heard or read about our new Xbox Live Diamond Card program, today at 3pm PST we'll be unveiling the Xbox Live Diamond Card. You can get a sneak peek at what the card is all about here:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/features/perkscard.htm

It's basically a card that gives Xbox Live paid subscribers with exclusive benefits and discounts from stores, restaurants and leading retailers. It's personalized with your Gamertag and is free to all (in US) paid Xbox Live subscribers who have already subscribed or pre-paid for at least 12 months on either the original Xbox® or Xbox 360.

Here's a picture of what the card will look like:


At 3pm PST today, you'll be able to sign up to recieve your card. There will also be more details on the exclusive offers at retailers as well.

Happy Holidays!

[ll Mista GT ll]

Hey everyone,

If you haven't heard or read about our new Xbox Live Diamond Card program, today at 3pm we'll be unveiling the Xbox Live Diamond Card. You can get a sneak peek at what the card is all about
Happy Holidays!

Yeah. Pretty cool for free. I dont feel comfortable giving my address to Microsoft though...

[J3bus WTF]

wtf, usa only?

[Jade_Dragonfly]

I lied, the site is now live. http://www.xboxlivediamond.com/

Yeah US only sorry J3bus.

[Jackyboy]

edit nvm

[ll Mista GT ll]

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Yeah US only

Wow so typical. What's wrong with Canada?

[RUB MY LEMON]

umm...i got to the last page and now its blank...wtf?

[Jackyboy]

umm...i got to the last page and now its blank...wtf?

scroll up... worked for me

[ShadedNine]

Wow so typical. What's wrong with Canada?

Aye...starts to feel rather familiar. Just like all the wonderful Canadian content and events that we were promised by Xbox.ca. Unfortunately, I think the pluralization of events was a bit misleading.

It's our big thank you to our most loyal Xbox Live subscribers.

apparently being a Live subscriber since Nov 15, 2002 straight until now doesn't qualify if you're Canadian

[Nato King]

I found this was good news so I put it up on the front page. I can't get it but I thought those who can should know about it.

[ll Mista GT ll]

apparently being a Live subscriber since Nov 15, 2002 straight until now doesn't qualify if you're Canadian

Tell me about it. There is no reason not to offer a free card in Canada as well. It's just poor like the launch of the 360. There should of been more planning, and more thinking things out.

Will the card be eventually offered in Canada?

[neutralfighter1]

Dude!!! That's frickin awsome!!!!
So it's like a reward cards!?

[J3bus WTF]

It pisses me off that this is USA only, it should AT LEAST be North America. I guess giving microsoft 160 can dollars isnt good enough for them to make cards available in canada

Tell me about it. There is no reason not to offer a free card in Canada as well. It's just poor like the launch of the 360. There should of been more planning, and more thinking things out.

Will the card be eventually offered in Canada?

The shoddy 360 launch/shortage IS on purpose, and lots of planning went into this, why do you think that a core system even exists?? People go crazy over these things, when there is nothing but a core system left, they take one of those. They go home and say, Oh ****, I need a hard drive, look at that, microsoft made more money off of a core system than a premium system. I love how Microsoft screws people over lol.

[ll Mista GT ll]

It pisses me off that this is USA only, it should AT LEAST be North America. I guess giving microsoft 160 can dollars isnt good enough for them to make cards available in canada


The shoddy 360 launch/shortage IS on purpose, and lots of planning went into this, why do you think that a core system even exists?? People go crazy over these things, when there is nothing but a core system left, they take one of those. They go home and say, Oh ****, I need a hard drive, look at that, microsoft made more money off of a core system than a premium system. I love how Microsoft screws people over lol.

Yeah I know what your saying. It's just really funny to me how

It's our big thank you to our most loyal Xbox Live subscribers.

Isn't applicaple to us.

/End rant

[swivel]

You guys are being way too quick to blame Microsoft. You should actually be blaming your Canadian government, which makes it impossible to include you guys in many of our deals in the States. Almost all discounts and loyalty deals do not apply to Canada, and many do not apply to the state of California. It is the legislatures that do this in an attempt to harm corporations.

Blame socialism and anti-capitalist whackos, not Microsoft.

[J3bus WTF]

Canada has laws against companies to not allow free offers?
And even if this is true, why is it USA only? Why no other countries?
I didn't know Canada was full of socialists either.

[ll Mista GT ll]

Canada has laws against companies to not allow free offers?
I didn't know Canada was full of socialists either.

Apperently. I guess Canada has less poverty?

JOKES!

[ShadedNine]

You guys are being way too quick to blame Microsoft. You should actually be blaming your Canadian government, which makes it impossible to include you guys in many of our deals in the States. Almost all discounts and loyalty deals do not apply to Canada, and many do not apply to the state of California. It is the legislatures that do this in an attempt to harm corporations.

Blame socialism and anti-capitalist whackos, not Microsoft.

Actually, our legislation simply works to separate us from entering the same contests as the US. It doesn't in any way prohibit MS or any other company operating in Canada from starting up an identical offer in Canada. Case in point: the Pepsi Be First to Play offer, which was made available to Canadians through a seperate though fundamentally identical contest.

The shortage though, is simply a poor estimation of producation capabilities on their part. Even Sony has stated, though the quote eludes me now, that faking a shortage would be not only very nearly impossible to cover up, but also a poor marketing decision no matter what angle you look at it from. But some people simply enjoy a good conspiracy, and they'll be damned if any logic or reason is going to stand in their way.

[ll Mista GT ll]

Microsoft has messed up big time. Although I am sad that I can't play on my Chrismas break, I am very curios if Microsoft can pick up the lost sales for Christmas. Christmas is the prime time to sell a product, Microsoft tottaly messed up. Not to mention, they didn't hit their selling "target"

[ShadedNine]

Microsoft has messed up big time. Although I am sad that I can't play on my Chrismas break, I am very curios if Microsoft can pick up the lost sales for Christmas. Christmas is the prime time to sell a product, Microsoft tottaly messed up. Not to mention, they didn't hit their selling "target"

They're more or less on track for their target actually, which wasn't based on a pre-christmas time limit, but for the end of the fiscal year (June 30). The excess units in Japan will sell slowly, but they can simply allocate more of the new units to Europe and North America (there's also the Australia launch to come too). At this point, they're still pretty much guaranteed to sell every unit they've put out.

So, despite the perceived shortage locally, they've actually sold a lot of units. It's just that unlike every other console launch in the past, they're being shared out amongst most of the world, instead of just North America or just Japan.

If you think they "messed" up on their pre-Christmas sales, I'd love to see what you'd suggest they try, given their manufacturing capacities. Certainly building up a larger stockpile before launching later on wouldn't change the number of units available before Christmas...