XBLA delisting will not affect XNA games

by Dustin Burg { Jun 2nd 2008 at 11:15AM }

Talking with GamesIndustry.biz, Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg reiterated their commitment to the Xbox Live Arcade and how their delisting program will actually benefit the XBLA by forcing developers to "take more time, make use of the new additional storage space and focus on game quality." But Greenberg made sure to note that the delisting program will NOT affect the upcoming XNA Community Games initiative saying that the "program only applies to Xbox Live Arcade" seeing that "Community Games created with XNA do not go through the same submission and certification process." So, no matter how craptucular some community games will end up being (because we all know there will be utter crap), delisting will not be enforced.

Tags: microsoft, xbla, xna

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Deck @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:22AM

That's great that they will not be for the XNA however... I still don't understand the whole delisting thing anyway.

I don't really see a point in it.. I don't think they are hogging server space or anything for Microsoft. I understand trying to promote quality as well but... this just doesn't seem like the way to do it.

Whocares @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:49AM

They need to delist some of those old demos. I mean really... who's gonna buy Madden 06, NBA 2K6 and some old games like that right now. They need to leave the Arcade games alone and focus on delisting worthless demos

Lewis (GT: StoneRevolver) @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:51AM

K, now wheres The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai?

*tears*

TehAdz @ Jun 2nd 2008 12:12PM

Jelly car was so much more awesome.

Well, at least I thought it was.

CharleyTony @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:57AM

instead of delisting they should "hide" older, not used stuff and let you choose to "see everything"
that way ,, no more clutter, the "hide crappy stuff" option would be the default way to look at the marketplace...

nobody would get burned and it could apply to really old games that have too much content in their list like GRAW and Kameo...

and put up a couple of different ways to sort out the content ,,, you need that for rockband ... (by date, by name, by artist (in this case) , by type of content ( dlc, theme, gamer pictures, video, demo)

iFester @ Jun 2nd 2008 12:14PM

The whole de-listing thing is pointless if the games will still be on the servers for people that already downloaded them. Here's a suggestion Microsoft - ORGANIZE THE BLOODY DASHBOARD BETTER.

For a nice approach (and I can't believe I'm writing this) look at the Playstation Store.

Lewis (GT: StoneRevolver) @ Jun 2nd 2008 12:23PM

True, these dashboards have turned into a mess since the last update :( an XMB like dashboard would rock.

ccc @ Jun 2nd 2008 2:16PM

What I wanna know is where there be a warning before it happens and a list of what is being delisted, kinda like a last chance buy.

I've been holding off on buying a few older arcade games to see if the price would drop.

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