Quote: Originally posted by Lenardo
cough cough
what about the xbox 360 live "exchange" that is supposed to be live as well
you know the cash for items in game setup that microsoft is supporting in their xbox 360 games.
i know brad is against it, but their publisher is for it...
that said- ever since they went with XNA i have suspected(as have ALOT of you here) strongly that vanguard would be xbox 360 as well as PC.
course being able to play on a widescreen HD monitor(my TV)....ooooOOOoOoo | This is from a thread on vanguard boards a month or two ago: Quote:
oh more Microsoft F.U.D.!
Well ask and you shall receive!
I've stated it on the boards before and I will state it again. Microsoft has no plans to sell currency or items in Vanguard. We are on the same page with Sigil in this regard.
Microtransactions are actually a very cool idea for games w/o subscriptions. In these games developers often like to make ongoing content but without a monthly fee there is no way to fund that content. Microtransactions make it possible to provide new levels quickly and efficiently. The content is paid for by the small transactions and it allows them to release content more quickly than waiting for enough for a complete expansion. Because there's very little(or no) persistence in these games there is no impact to a virtual economy. The developer and publisher gets paid and the end user gets new content at a low price. Everybody wins.
I know there is a lot of anxiety about Microsoft on the boards. I will make it very clear that while we have a lot of different technologies to choose from, we are only going to implement the features that make sense for Vanguard. We aren't going to do anything to compromise this game.
So relax guys.
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