XNA Community Games: No free games at launch
I’m not surprised, but it’s certainly what I didn’t want to hear about the XNA community stuff… here’s the Wired article with the lowdown.
Developers will not be able to release free games at launch, Microsoft said. All games on the service must be priced.
Satchell said free games are a possibility in the future, although Microsoft still has questions. “Do we really want a free tier? If we do, how do we structure that? We’re going to start with the model that we know, which is transactions, and then go from there,” he said.
I was skeptical before, now I’m just dismayed.
More Clueless XBLA Decisions
The latest interview published with Marc Whitten, general manager of XBox Live is quite frankly, fucking scary.
There’s been a lot of complaints over Microsofts recent handling of one of the Xbox360’s greatest assets and rightly so. The decision to cut royalty rates is a poor one, especially given the cost of getting your game through cert. The rumoured handling of potential arcade releases another. The colossal fuckwittery of the current interface for browsing games (and as a knock on effect - sustaining sales of a game) the icing on the cake.
But hey, fear not because just when you think they can’t possibly fuck something up more…
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