If Ya Don’t Use’em… Ya Lose’em
I have at least 10 games I downloaded from Xbox Live, and I played them for a while… then the novelty kind of wore off. I was kicking ass on Robotron (Williams Electronics), for a while. But as always with the older arcade games… it just gets too f*#king hard after a certain level… So ya give up. Well it looks like Xbox live is now taking titles off their Xbox Live Arcade… well… for the simple reason that some games suck and aren’t getting downloaded. So f*#k it… pull’em. Here’s some sh*t stolen from Gamespot.com:
In November, Xbox Live Arcade product manager Jeremy Wacksman told GameSpot that Microsoft had no plans to cull the constantly growing catalog of games available on the Xbox 360’s digital distribution service.
Plans have apparently changed. Xbox Live general manager Marc Whitten has told trade site Next-Gen in an interview that Microsoft would be “delisting” underperforming games. To become a potential candidate, a game would need to have an average Metacritic score below 65, be at least six months old, and have a conversion rate (the percentage of demo downloaders who go on to buy the full product) of less than 6 percent. Microsoft will also give a three-month heads-up when it plans to yank a game from the service.
That isn’t the only change in the works, according to Whitten. The size limit for games is going up from 150MB to 350MB, and in lieu of a spring dashboard update, Microsoft is instead addressing a common complaint regarding digital-rights management (DRM) on Live Arcade games. Next month, Microsoft will release a tool that lets users consolidate all of their purchases onto their most current console.
I know this ain’t the most exciting news, but what I am looking forward to is being able to download some of the older Xbox titles… like The Suffering (Surreal Software), which is one of my favorite Xbox games.
Tags: 360, arcade games, digital distribution, digital-rights management, downloaders, DRM, Jeremy Wacksman, Microsoft, Robotron, Surreal Software, The Suffering, Williams Electronics, Xbox Live
May 24th, 2008 at 1:12 am
sounds like something we all need to look forward too! Thanks for the FYI !
May 26th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
doesnt make sense to me. what do they care its just a matter of storage, right? leave the games on and maybe a whole new gereration might rediscover them!