Comments on: Do Xbox Live Marketplace Games have Problems?

By: Tom Marthenal

Tom Marthenal — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:57:16 +0000

Removing games doesn’t “increase quality”, but it lets the other games Microsoft considers (and of course they are judging by users who play it or user ratings) “quality”.

Apparently they are not just taking it out of the store; removing choices does not help them at all. I assume they have categories of games (I have never touched an Xbox), so maybe these games would just show up in searches and perhaps in some categories.

By: wolfwhite99

wolfwhite99 — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:59:46 +0000

I really dont think they are out of line. The games both have to have a less than 6% of people getting it or less than 6% score on metacritic

By: roalgumo7

roalgumo7 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:11:06 +0000

Well, I’m personally don’t play much console games anymore, I pretty much play only guild wars and world of warcraft.
I sometimes do get really interested on getting some of them, but I just don’t have time to play them or even the money to buy them xD.

Anyway, yeah, guess that was kinda of a bad move from xbox live, hm..about quality… I don’t actually think removing games from arcade increases quality, they can just add ratings (if they don’t alrready have, I’ve never used xbox live at all).

By: PandaPie

PandaPie — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:09:57 +0000

They’re just removing them from the marketplace. If you already purchased it you can still play it/re-download it (in previous downloads). You can also recommend it to a friend who can download it. All Microsoft is doing is removing it from list and putting it behind the scenes, it will still be on the server to download. I’m pretty sure that’s what ‘e’ and ‘major nelson’ said a couple of weeks back on Major Nelsons podcast.

-Noel

By: ZiggyFish

ZiggyFish — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:31:55 +0000

I’m here just shaking my head, thinking how can they do that. It’s just not fair. When I buy a bit of software, I should be able to use it for how long I want, no matter if I’m the only person still using it. I paid for it, I should be able to determine when it is on no use to _me_, not Microsoft dictating when. I am customer not a sheep.

How can Microsoft do this you ask. Well, have a look at the recent phase out of Windows XP, Doc formats, and a whole lot other stuff. They have done this so many times that this story doesn’t surprise me at all.

By: 1up

1up — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:51:06 +0000

Chris you are wrong:

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3168094

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