Comments on: Develop for Xbox 360 for only $99 a year, oh yeah

By: LuisAT

LuisAT — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:14:54 +0000

100 bucks a year to publish games for 360 its like free to me, and the guy that made AlienHD now can pay this, but I just want to compile and run the demo that came with XNA on my xbox too, change some things, and maybe create something new, and this way, only on my xbox, should be free.
Its only my opinion, I think this way xbox can grow faster. []

By: TDavid

TDavid — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:59:41 +0000

I can understand that perspective, LuisAT. We’ll see after a year has passed how much new content that $100 opens up for folks. Really when you pay $5-10 a game in the Arcade already if one can get 15 or so decent homebrew developed titles, then it’s well worth the extra $100 a year.

By: LuisAT

LuisAT — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:20:40 +0000

It should be free (for 360) I already paid 400!

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Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:34:41 +0000

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