So, when xbla hits 200 games....
so, when xbla hits 200 games... will we celebrate or something? I think a 1600 point giveaway is in order. But my real question is : will microsoft end up deleting games? or adding a better search bar? like dividing it by age (1st quarter 2006, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 1st 2007, 2nd 07...... so forth.
How will gamers end up buying the older, more experienced titles?
I doubt that we'll see Microsoft ever remove XBLA titles from the service, however I wouldn't bet my life on it either.
As for organization, I have no idea what they will do, but what they did in the previous update is shit if you ask me. The fact that everything is all lumped together in one pile (and will get 100x worse with XNA) is one of the stupidest things I've seen MS do. Add in the fact that I have to wait for this single list of games load every freakin time, and I'm having troubles imagining of a worse system.
It's gotten to the point where I'm very tempted to delete 90% of my XBLA titles just to get some sort of responsivness from the dashboard.
/End Ranting Lunatic
I doubt that we'll see Microsoft ever remove XBLA titles from the service, however I wouldn't bet my life on it either.
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It's gotten to the point where I'm very tempted to delete 90% of my XBLA titles just to get some sort of responsivness from the dashboard.
/End Ranting Lunatic
If they remove the titles from service before ending the 360 Live service in total they would have to refund the money spent on the points used to purchase the games [edit: in many states]. Not the points, the actual cash. Buying the game is an unlimited usage license for the given account and 360. I highly doubt the games will disappear before 360 support leaves entirely.
As someone who still plays keeps a NES, Dreamcast and a 2600 hooked up to my television that does make me wonder what will happen if I want to play an XBLA exclusive game in 10+ years.
I am also considering trimming my XBLA list to 20 (or less) titles to speed my 360. The recent~ish dashboard update really is crap. Rather than letting you set a favorite games list or anything like that to offer quick access (and priority loading) they suddenly decided to lump everything together and load in the slowest possible order.
Now that HD-DVD is dead (; ; inferior format wins again /sigh) and the download video service is being pushed more one would think that dashboard responsiveness would be a priority. Start fulling up the elite HDD up with TV episodes and you will get the same effect on the video blade, it may even slow down the other blades too.
They really need to start assuming people own more than 5 XBLA and XBOX1 download titles and design a dashboard setup that doesn't make you wait 5 minutes+ to load the title list.
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