bjork said:
Monopoly would be cool, but they seriously need to quit making co-op achievements for XBLA in general. It's hard as shit to find people to play with sometimes, and you can't just start a game without other people.
Yeah, seriously.
I understand the idea and it's a good one, just ahead of its time. It's just not wise to include co-op and versus achievements in
every god damn game since not all of them will sell well enough to keep people playing. I realize that every dev wishes their game was the next UNO, but that's just not something they can predict (yet, anyway, as there aren't enough games/players to gauge trends accurately) and today the userbase is too small to be sure that every game will at least have SOME players.
Maybe this will go away now that MS are allowing optional added achievements with DLC. Devs could release their new or less-wanted retro classics with singleplayer-only achievements and if the game ends up getting an active online community, they could release some online ones.
Not gonna happen, though, I know. Digital Eclipse love their achievement template that they can just copy+paste with some mild variations.
Bearillusion said:
Will we ever see multiple games released in a single week on XBLA? I'm not asking for a promise just curious if it's a goal at all.
They'll never answer that, because even if arne says "that's something we
might look into
if X happens and we
may be able to
possibly expand
some day. maybe. possibly. perhaps." some less-than-talented gaming site will run with that and post "MULTIPLE XBLA GAMES NEXT WEEK CONFIRMED!!!!!" and the rumour will spread like wildfire and only cause more headaches for the XBLA team.
