[360] Games: Make 'em yourself!

I sure hope Microsoft has a gigantic (lol cuz xbox is hueg) team to check for quality, because for starters, I wager 95% of all games of this kind use stolen material: stolen graphics, stolen code, stolen music, and made with stolen software. XD

Having said that, I really like this idea in principle. There's a lot to be said for this approach, I feel it will open the games market up for much smaller teams, which is a good thing, cause diversity is always nice. Besides, some fan games are just plain ol' awesome, and they deserve all the exposure (and revenue) they can get.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Shin

Actually I disagree. $99 a year for the subscription to the service is probably enough to put off casual users who would just churn out rehashes of other people's shit. I mean, why would you bother wasting the time?

It's not rehashing that I worry about (cause that's legal, though not very tasteful), it's actual theft. In my experience with these kind of small games, I've seen so many titles (even ones that are being sold!) steal a Necros, Purple Motion or basehead song it's almost embarrassing.

I suppose you're right that the $99 price tag will scare the worst of 'em off, but it's really not a lot of money considering what you can potentially get in exposure. People tend to make these kind of games for fun at first and then try to release them, forgetting that those textures came from Quake 2, and the songs were downloaded from modarchive.com. That is the kind of thing I think Microsoft has to check for, as much for their sake as the "bad" developers'. (Although they will probably try not to be held accountable for what appears on that service.)

As for why, people will do all kinds of crazy shit for 15 minutes of fame. XD

There's nowhere I can't reach.