Comments on: 360 … next year, opening to the community … probably … https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2007/12/16/next-year-opening-to-the-community-probably/ My name is Jesper Juul, and I am a Ludologist [researcher of the design, meaning, culture, and politics of games]. This is my blog on game research and other important things. Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:11:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: The Ludologist » Blog Archive » Xbox Live Arcade: The Democratization of Game Distribution, Peer Review, Community, all the Good Stuff https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2007/12/16/next-year-opening-to-the-community-probably/comment-page-1/#comment-52814 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:11:42 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=417#comment-52814 […] speculated, Microsoft today announced at Game Developers Conference that they will open XNA and Xbox Live […]

]]> By: Jesper https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2007/12/16/next-year-opening-to-the-community-probably/comment-page-1/#comment-52699 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:11:14 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=417#comment-52699 Agreed, but the point I was trying to make is that controversial content is only seen as a problem for video game platforms, less so for other platforms/media.

BluRay and HD-DVD are not seen as being hurt by having controversial content (I guess the standard story even is that pornography made VHS win the format war then).

Looking forwards to your game!

]]> By: josh g. https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2007/12/16/next-year-opening-to-the-community-probably/comment-page-1/#comment-52698 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:45:07 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=417#comment-52698 The issue here isn’t whether the controversial content would sell *itself*, though. The problem is that a console’s marketing identity is linked to the library of games it carries. Console branding problems like this don’t compare well to books, CDs, or DVDs because those media aren’t linked to a proprietary platform that needs to be marketed separately.

I still think that it’d be great if Microsoft (or any of the console platforms) opened up indie game publishing. I’d think that a simple community-based rating system would be effective in keeping the merely “bad” games from being the first thing people see, and allow their service to highlight quality. But the best way to stand out in a crowd is to be controversial, so it’s possible they’re just afraid of news stores covering XBLive’s newest title, “Pr0n Stars vs JFK BloodDeathMatch”. (I hereby copyright that title, no one is allowed to use it. For the good of all humanity.)

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