No Xbox 360 Spring Dashboard update; Underperforming XBLA titles to be removed
Posted over at Neogaf.
Story is at NextGen story titled "
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: MS to Delist XBLA Titles"
Well read the details.
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"According to Whitten, XBLA titles that have been out for more than six months, have a Metacritic score of less than 65%, and have a conversion rate of less than 6% will be eligible for desliting. Microsoft will give three months of notice before these titles are removed.
Whitten also told us that there would be no spring dashboard update for Xbox 360 owners this year, saying that resources were instead focused on “building the proper infrastructure and scale for the service.” There will however be a change to DRM policy and a tool released next month that will allow 360 owners to re-license content to a single console—finally fixing the issue that forced gamers playing XBLA games to be connected to Xbox LIVE if their 360 broke down and was replaced.
Read on for the complete Q and A, which provides all the details on this news and more, including a new 1st party development studio and why the DRM issue took so long to resolve…"
DRM Fix coming next month = Yay
Crappy XBLA delisting = i own some of those..... thats not good. Its a online store there is no reason for it.
No Spring Update = What the hell have they been doing all this damn time?
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This is why I don't want things to go strictly to the digital distribution route in the future. That game you bought and downloaded before? You need to download it again? Oh that's gone, sorry.
Wait, so they'll take them off for good? Fuck that. At least you should be able to download it again if you already purchased it.
i dont think they will literally take them off xbla they will just delist them you will always be able to redownload even shitty titles purchased through your download history.
Wow...time for me to take the plunge and buy some shitty games for kicks. I know I shouldn't, but I really want Space Giraffe just so I can make fun of it.