XBox Live Arcade... Dead?

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Originally Posted by ChaoofNee

XBox Live Arcade... Never Alive.

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Fixed. Not sure if it makes sense.

Who cares, no one subscribed to the sevice anyway. Just let it die.

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Originally Posted by DougDaBroadcasta

Who cares, no one subscribed to the sevice anyway. Just let it die.

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Yeah! Was a pretty shitty setup.

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Originally Posted by Grave

Yeah. The prices scared me away from this. Far away. Never had an interest in it because of such.

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Agreed.

I would've bought Bejeweled and Bookworm, but not for more than 5 bucks.

I bought Mutant Storm for $10, got the Live Arcade disk for free, and consider it an excellent use of my gaming time. The problem is that there was a total of one game out of maybe a dozen that was worth owning, at least for me. On the other hand, I got to mess around with a few demos for free. Honestly, just so long as I can still access Mutant Storm I don't really care that much. It was pretty obvious that Live Arcade was a good idea executed badly.

I got at $10 rebate in the mail today too. That's Volume 2 of PlantES sorted out, then. :)

James

I will again reiterate my idea of MS working with Sega to create/steal a Genesis emulator and sell the games for less than $5 a pop. For things that have been published to death (Sonic, Golden Axe, Sonic, Sonic, Sonic), sell it for around $2~$3. They need to make the emulator Live Aware, too. Basically, give the players something they can goof off on while waiting for friends to show up. All the better if you can get some netcode in there so multiplayer games could be played over Live. Assuming there is a decent response from the consumer base, start working with Atari, Capcom, and Konami to do the same for their properties. Think of it as an iTunes model for getting classic games (buy what you want), as opposed to the compilation method of selling the Sonic Mega Collection (or Midway Arcade Treasures, etc) or the stealing method of downloading ROMs from the Internet.

If XBLA is dead, it's Microsoft's fault. They seem to have this problem with pricing in the software world. Everything is either free or horribly overpriced with them.

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Originally Posted by Wolffen

it's Microsoft's fault. They seem to have this problem with pricing in the software world. Everything is either free or horribly overpriced with them.

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I couldn't have said it better myself.

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Originally Posted by Wolffen

I will again reiterate my idea of MS working with Sega to create/steal a Genesis emulator and sell the games for less than $5 a pop. For things that have been published to death (Sonic, Golden Axe, Sonic, Sonic, Sonic), sell it for around $2~$3. They need to make the emulator Live Aware, too. Basically, give the players something they can goof off on while waiting for friends to show up. All the better if you can get some netcode in there so multiplayer games could be played over Live. Assuming there is a decent response from the consumer base, start working with Atari, Capcom, and Konami to do the same for their properties. Think of it as an iTunes model for getting classic games (buy what you want), as opposed to the compilation method of selling the Sonic Mega Collection (or Midway Arcade Treasures, etc) or the stealing method of downloading ROMs from the Internet.

If XBLA is dead, it's Microsoft's fault. They seem to have this problem with pricing in the software world. Everything is either free or horribly overpriced with them.

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Exactly!

Releasing their Live arcade disk with an overplayed arcade hit from the 80's, was such a bad idea. The timing was poor as well. They released the disk, shortly after Midway's -Arcade Treasures 2 came out. I'd rather spend the $20 on a compilation of games I want to play, than $10 for one beat down old arcade game and a bunch of demos.

My guess is it's dead since all this stuff has pretty much moved to the Xbox 360's version of Live. Oh, and it's free there.