Xbox Live Diamond Card

I recently got my Xbox Live Diamond card in the mail. It's a free (but you have to ask for it) discount card to tons of places online. You have to have an Xbox Live Gold account to be eligible (a $50 a year subscription) so I thought it would have some decent benefits.

Movie tickets are one of the discounted items. Perfect for seeing Transformers tomorrow. Too bad it costs $8 to ship to $7.50 tickets.

The Arts category was completely empty.

There were lots of Services like oil changes and home security alarms. But that's boring.

The Mall had every offer under the sun that you see in mall pagodas.

Restaurants had only fast food. And 3 out of 11 that we have. One I might eat at if in a pinch (Hardees).

A lot of the Travel coupons were like things you could get through the fax machine at work. Good deals. Just nothing gamer related.

And finally the Neighborhood deals. Harrisonburg and the surrounding suburbs had zero deals. Charlottesville either. Richmond did, but all the deals were made up of coupons that were already available above.

It's really disappointing that there wasn't anything that stood out for gamers. If there was, the online only deals meant that you had to pay shipping, usually the 6-10% that the coupon saved you in the first place.

I waited a year to get this card from Microsoft. Guess I should have seen this coming from the big MS.