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Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade games are no longer available on Amazon.com, according to a notice that appears on the site when searching for any Xbox Live titles. The unique arrangement was announced last year as a way of expanding the availability of downloadable Xbox Live games beyond the Xbox Live interface.
"We are no longer selling Xbox LIVE arcade game codes on Amazon.com," the notice says. "Customers can continue to purchase Xbox LIVE points on Amazon.com and those points can be redeemed through their Xbox consoles to purchase any of the games that were previously available."
We have inquiries in to both Microsoft and Amazon to find out what happened.
[Update: A Microsoft spokesman, David Dennis, offered this statement via email: "Amazon is a great partner and we continue to work with them to sell LIVE subscription cards and Microsoft Points cards. Retailers make decisions about what products they wish to merchandize and we respect those decisions."]
One advantage of the Xbox Live store on Amazon.com was that gamers could pay directly for specific games, with real money, rather than loading up their Xbox Live accounts with enough Microsoft Points to make the purchase. As explained by video-game blog Kotaku, that arrangement helped people avoid paying more than they needed to at any given point, something can often happen on Xbox Live because Microsoft Points have to be purchased in relatively coarse increments (previously 500 points at a time).
However, Xbox Live points sales were recently adjusted to 400-point batches, which more closely match the cost of games on the service.
(Via PlatformNation.com)
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