Like? Rolling Western isn't very good.
The rest were a mix of old games that I played years ago or games that were severely overpriced.
Pushmo is overpriced at $5?
Like? Rolling Western isn't very good.
The rest were a mix of old games that I played years ago or games that were severely overpriced.
Fez studio upset at Microsoft's special treatment for Mojang
Pretty Notchington always gets what he wants, HUH
If you knew what you were talking about then you'd know that Pushmo was a thing.Like? Rolling Western isn't very good.
The rest were a mix of old games that I played years ago or games that were severely overpriced.
No chance in hell, breaks my heart.
Now Minecraft is exclusive? It looks just like a PC game I saw. I still don't under stand why people play it. You build worlds with boxes and then do?
Fez studio upset at Microsoft's special treatment for Mojang
Pretty Notchington always gets what he wants, HUH
Pushmo is overpriced at $5?
You are rooting for games to increase in price. What am I hearing?
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It couldn't possibly have anything to do with Phil Fish and his charming personality.
Fez studio upset at Microsoft's special treatment for Mojang
Pretty Notchington always gets what he wants, HUH
*shrugs* Didn't have to be exclusively MS published games.Arcade Next was a promotion for Microsoft published games.
No, I am rooting for there to be a sustainable middle ground between $60 games at the normal $5 -$10 DD title. Something that allows for larger games with higher production value.
Fish certainly fucked up in terms of PR, but there's no question here that Mojang is getting a pretty sweet deal from Microsoft.
No, I am rooting for there to be a sustainable middle ground between $60 games at the normal $5 -$10 DD title. Something that allows for larger games with higher production value.
Arcade Next was a promotion for Microsoft published games.That's actually an interesting Twitter palaver. For what Fez is (amazing) I can't believe the way MS handled the game. Why was it not part of the Arcade NEXT promotion? They could've added the extra 200 achievement points and put it in. It would've made the promotion the strongest line-up they've ever put together. Instead they released Fez on a Friday right before Trials Evolution.
I was under the impression that this was supposed to usher in a new MS policy on title updates for 360 games. Did I misremember that?
I didn't notice this the last time I was on the 3ds, I'll check it out though. Apart from that, what else is there?
Fez studio upset at Microsoft's special treatment for Mojang
Pretty Notchington always gets what he wants, HUH
Pic needs Tim waving while walking off with a full sack.
You are rooting for something that already exists, we've had that for quite a while on XBLA. A higher pricing tier isn't necessary.
Arcade Next was a promotion for Microsoft published games.
Mutant Mudds and Mighty Switch Force come to mind. But even then, there's a handful of good/great games on the eShop (VC not withstanding) in total and XBLA has a handful of good/great games every year, sometimes every few months. The two services aren't even comparable in my opinion.
Probably my favourite game of the generation. My first day of playing the PC version was one of the most intense, absorbing survival horror videogame experiences I've ever known.
Being lost in a Minecraft night, desperately trying to get back to your safe place while monsters swarm in from every direction, is an incredible experience.
Glad to see it achieving success on consoles too.
I knew they changed the amount of achievements and achievement points XBLA games had to have. I hadn't heard that though. Can anyone clarify?
"Microsoft knows that to do a similar thing that's on PC where they constantly update it, that's a very difficult thing to do on Xbox because you have to go through the full tests," he told us. "But they are quite keen to move towards that - they do see it as the future, so I think we might be the first to do constant updates."
as far I know Minecraft 360 is codeveloped with Microsoft, anyway it's a shame a developer cannot have a live access to their sales on xbla.
I can see his point, more games like American Nightmare at a slightly higher price than games like FEZ would help to build the platform and create a nice middle ground between retail and DD.
It couldn't possibly have anything to do with Phil Fish and his charming personality.
Higher priced games doesn't equate to more profit on a digital platform. Unlike physical games which will have fixed costs associated with each game sold, all that matters for a DD platform is the total revenue, revenue per unit sold isn't really that important.
Fez studio upset at Microsoft's special treatment for Mojang
Pretty Notchington always gets what he wants, HUH
Moving forward, MS definitely need to improve on their content delivery process, which sucks balls from the looks of it. Steam seems pretty lax about it and nobody has died because of updates. At least not since that first Witcher 2 update a year ago.Wouldn't be surprised that Halo 4 with Spartan ops is going to test this for disk based AAA games. I think stuff like this is necessary next gen and it would be really awesome if XNA could make it to the next xbox or Modding in games. Developers have to sit around the table with microsoft and make a standard to achieve this.
I'm not saying this is the megaton we've all been waiting for with regards to title updates but it's at least positive conjecture. Ah, who the fuck am I kidding.
"You're also getting free updates," they added, "which is something every other developer on the platform is told is simply not an option."
Notch responded by explaining that "we had to fight for that, and we got a limited number of them. Not sure why they don't like it."
Taking bets on when Notch will stop supporting the game because of MS' ass backwards approach to content patches/updates.
Yeah, about that...
Taking bets on when Notch will stop supporting the game because of MS' ass backwards approach to content patches/updates.
With half a million copies sold in a day, I've a feeling he'll get over it =P
note sony seem to charge for updates too
note sony seem to charge for updates too
i was always told they charged for bandwidth.
Damn. If only there was a service that gave you live sale updates, free unlimited patching, and paid you each and every month.
I'm sure he will, but as usual, we're the ones who eventually get screwed because of a stupid decision to charge devs for content patches/updates.
I wasn't looking at it from a profit standpoint, more a quality one. XBLA has a ton of amazing games, but there is a lack of a certain type of game. Those games that have more of a retail feel to them but come with a significantly lower price point.
Like Minecraft, Trials, AN, MS are doing the rights things, but they could be doing more to attract more devs so more games like those listed above are released. Games like Dear Esther, Penumbra, Amnesia and so on.
I dunno, they have to charge at some point. I imagine there's a fair bit of work at Microsoft's end in ensuring that the patch doesn't fuck anything up and getting it through cert, and that can't come free. Especially since if everyone gets this for free, there will be so many patches going through all the time that the new games will start getting held up.
I dunno, they have to charge at some point. I imagine there's a fair bit of work at Microsoft's end in ensuring that the patch doesn't fuck anything up and getting it through cert, and that can't come free. Especially since if everyone gets this for free, there will be so many patches going through all the time that the new games will start getting held up.
Could they not trust developers to not break their own game and if they do, fix it as soon as possible? Surely its in their best interests to make their games as good as they can be.
Good point, but MS should do the sensible thing and have a much lower cost for certain games that will likely require a lot of content patches.
Fez studio upset at Microsoft's special treatment for Mojang
Pretty Notchington always gets what he wants, HUH
I didn't notice this the last time I was on the 3ds, I'll check it out though. Apart from that, what else is there?