Fri, Jul 24, 2009 | 15:42 BST
Microsoft launches new pricing for XBL Community Games
Xbox Live Community games has a new pricing structure for titles on the service, and some will be as low as $1.
The old pricing is going the way of the Dodo, which included hobbyist developers to be able to price titles for 800 Microsoft Points ($10), 400 MSP ($5), and 200 MSP ($2.50).
Instead, a tiered system has gone into place offering three different price points: 400 Microsoft Points ($5), 240 MSP ($3) and 80 MSP ($1; dollar values approximate).
Only games 50 MB in size and smaller can be sold for 80 MSP, and games currently at the price point of 200 MSP get shifted to 80 MSP unless the developer changes it themselves – but if the price is currently 800 it stays that way until the game gets an update which causes it to move to the tiered system.
Despite the changes, Microsoft will still not allow a full game to be a free download.
More over on Gamasutra.
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Posted in: Microsoft, Xbox 360, Xbox Live
Tags: xbl community games, Xbox Live Indie Games
8 comments
#1
No_PUDding
24/07/09, 3:45 pm
‘Microsot’
No coffee jokes or anythign from me, you write 20 million news stories a day, it’s understandable.
#2
Stephany Nunneley
24/07/09, 3:53 pm
Funnily enough I fixed it as soon as I posted it. Refresh sweets…
and “Microsod”… well… new nickname for em maybe? No? Ok, then.
#3
No_PUDding
24/07/09, 4:17 pm
I thought Micro$oft was well established. No need to reinvent the wheel. I won’t point things like that out again until atleast 15 minutes afterwards.
#4
Stephany Nunneley
24/07/09, 4:36 pm
Do people still say Microshaft too?
#5
Psychotext
24/07/09, 4:43 pm
Only Pud’s more impolite dates.
#6
No_PUDding
24/07/09, 4:49 pm
They are the ones that get asked in for coffee.
#7
Psychotext
24/07/09, 4:51 pm
#8
Stephany Nunneley
24/07/09, 5:09 pm