Comments on: List of Potential XBLA Delisting Candidates

By: walter

walter — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:31:52 +0000

They should just make Retro, Archive, and Bargain folders. There needs to be more options for sorting: # of downloads, release date, people who buy the games should be able to rank them with 1-5 stars and allow us to sort it that way.

Now I won’t be deleting the demos.

By: Ron Whitaker

Ron Whitaker — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:11:38 +0000

Here’s the big question: What if you purchased these games, then you have to RMA your XBox and it gets replaced? How will you re-download your titles?

Way to go, MS.

By: erathoniel

erathoniel — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:12:20 +0000

I count at least four, at minimum, that I own.

By: Evismang

Evismang — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:28:08 +0000

Contra? Frogger?! PAC-MAN?! Those 3 certainly don’t make sense to delist.

By: SpiralGray

SpiralGray — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:06:37 +0000

On the one hand I agree with the question of why. On Major Nelson’s recent podcast he had Aaron Greenburg on and they talked about ‘clearing the store shelves for new inventory.’ That makes perfect sense for products that take up physical space, but for stuff that has to sit on the servers anyway (so owners can redownload it and people can buy it if someone uses the Send to a Friend (or whatever it’s called)), why not continue to make it available? Cut the price to half and see if they can milk some more money out of those titles. Move them to a ‘bargain bin’ area on the site if the real goal is to make the newer titles easier to search through.