The news in May that unsuccessful XBLA titles would be delisted seemed difficult to misinterpret -- especially since Mark Whitten, General Manager of Xbox Live, said it word for word. As of this week, it seems that isn't the case after all, at least if Microsoft Corporate VP Tom Schappert is to be believed.
According to Schappert, the information about delisting was "taken out of context" and there are no immediate plans to remove any of the XBLA library selections at this time. In fact, he mentioned the upcoming Dashboard overhaul as key in eliminating the issue, saying that the improvements to the service would make for easier sorting of titles.
Good news if a few of your favorite XBLA games aren't necessarily the most popular selections, I suppose. I think I would personally prefer to see poor games removed, but that's not very considerate of the people who put the time and effort into creating these games, is it?
[Via IGN - Thanks, Brian]
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5:42 PM on 10.09.2008
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@ Holyetheline
Find a friend who has the game, and then trade some online achievements back and forth. Now that some XBLA games are "dead" in terms of online play, it's very easy to abuse a lot of achievements that require ranked play. For example: very late on a Sunday night, I saw that absolutely nobody was on Bomberman Live, so I contacted a friend, asked him to help me do something, and we did some ranked play in which we continually got matched up time after time. Helped me get the "win 10 tournaments in a row" achievement that had eluded me till that point because of random luck.
All they have to do is make a section for all the crappy old ports and 80s Atari remakes, then we can all safely ignore that section. See? problem solved.
I have never heard anyone complain about a company refusing to limit a customer's choices until this topic started to bang around on the net.