After hearing about the Metanet N+ developers going on a verbal Xbox Live Arcade assault, Capcom felt the need to semi-defend the service all while pointing fingers at an entirely different issue they have with the XBLA. Sorting of games.Posted over on Capcom's blog, Adam "TheBooya" Boyes isn't happy with the Metanet crew and their "solution" to a less than stellar XBLA service. According to Boyes, restricting games probably isn't the answer to everything and agrees that "tastes may vary, but there are many games out there for everyone." Boyes continues to argue various points made by the Metanet crew, everything from how the XBLA isn't like retail, how customers should research products before they purchase and ultimately lands on the one problem he feels needs fixing: How you find the great games. "Instead of complaining that XBLA has hundreds of games that are 'utter shit' and advocating a no-limit release of a billion craptastic games, I think we need to work on lobbying a better system for sorting games." And we think that pill is little more fair, more forward looking and a bit easier to swallow than Metanet's.
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3-28-2008 @ 1:58PM
SoxFan13 said...
@Jonah Falcon-
N+ has sold well. The interview of the developers took place before the game had even come out yet on XBLA.
However, I agree with you, everyone has the opportunity to demo the games. IMO, N+ wouldn't have sold much at all w/o the demo because it's hard to "get" just from screenshots.
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3-28-2008 @ 2:07PM
Maxx the Slash said...
The problem isn't with the games being legitimately bad on XBLA, it's with the sorting of the games? Sort them better and they become better? Great idea Capcom ,you ****ing idiots. Why dig around through a pile of craptastic games when we could turn them into sorted-but-still-craptastic games? Brilliant idea Capcom, let's give them a round of applause.
Capcom has no idea how to fix Xbox Live Arcade either, so they should just shut the hell up.
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3-28-2008 @ 2:15PM
Christy McGrory said...
capcom can go to hell, thier games are Rubbish, at least Metanet brought out a good game beforehand.
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3-28-2008 @ 2:37PM
thesimplicity said...
Xbox Live--surprisingly--needs to take a cue from the Wii on this one. The Everybody's Nintendo channel makes sorting through all the VC games a much easier task thanks to the review and recommendation systems. What live really needs is a rating for every game (made only by people who purchased the full version), and an ability to see how your friends rated it.
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3-28-2008 @ 3:15PM
ZeroCorpse said...
I think a rating system that allows gamers to give a game from 1 to 5 stars would be good. The catch would be that you would have to have actually downloaded and played the trial game to completion before being allowed to rate anything.
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3-28-2008 @ 7:53PM
Metacore said...
I am not entirely sure how the XNA system is supposed to work, but something like a voting system is supposed to be put into place(only fellow developers can vote though). How about people vote on the XBLA games(I don't like the idea of only gold members. But you would definitely only be able to rate the game from inside it's own menu, so you would atleast have to download the trial).
Still though, I think N+ failed because it looks sort of meh(however is pretty fun, I am just saying, it's a stick figure collecting rings... Doesn't sound like much), and it has been available online for free for a while now, why pay? Even if I liked it, I may have already had enough of the flash version. I still think some kind of sorting system should be put into place. At the very very least, a top downloads(instead of featured) list of 5-10 games, and maybe even a numerical representation(doesn't have a good reason, but sounds cool).
A "Most Downloaded" just sounds so simple and bland, I am surprised it wasn't there to begin with, but would be a good first step.
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3-28-2008 @ 10:51PM
FantomRedux said...
M$ should start a thing like Nintendo did for the NES. Only allow developers a maximum number of releases per year, quality test all the games to make sure they aren't "utter shit" á la N+. I wouldn't mind, but it's the exact same as N-, and that's a fucking Flash game!
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4-01-2008 @ 5:28PM
James said...
1.) Sort by sales -- sure some of the crappier content continues to sell well, but it's better than nothing
2.) Sort by Metacritic (as above)
3.) Tagging instead of rigid genres -- the web adapted years ago; get with the program, MS. Categorize the tags hierarchically so I can drill down to only the ones I like.
4.) Let me "watch" a tag so I get a message when a new game with that tag gets released
Heh, I give MS all these great ideas and they don't even have to pay me =-)
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