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30 Jan 2008, 19:28
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PA on Xbox Live
This might be a weird concept, and I understand that there are major barriers to introducing it. However, one of the most common complaints I've heard about PA is the lack of players.
Making an Xbox Live version of PA has the potential to open the game up to a whole new playerbase. Xbox Live has an established userbase of millions of people who we know are gamers. Arcade titles can sell hundreds of thousands, and despite the conversion issues, it has teh potential to bring thousands of new players to the game. Some of whom may even stick around.
User interface and integration into the current community are the most blatant issues I can think of, but I believe they could be overcome.
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30 Jan 2008, 19:42
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Re: PA on Xbox Live
the xbox doesn't support any form of web browser - the biggest hurdle would be making an API to allow the xbox live arcade 'version' to interact with planets on the live web game.
This may work, but may not convert very well to actual users in the community.
I suspect users of XBLA would expect it to be a 'faster' game too, not as slow as it is to play.
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30 Jan 2008, 20:16
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Re: PA on Xbox Live
Not to mention the requirements from Microsoft in order to appear on Xbox Live.
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30 Jan 2008, 20:24
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Re: PA on Xbox Live
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Originally Posted by Heartless
Not to mention the requirements from Microsoft in order to appear on Xbox Live.
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That wouldn't be the hardest bit
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30 Jan 2008, 20:27
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CRASHING BEATS 'N FANTASY
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Re: PA on Xbox Live
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Originally Posted by Mit
That wouldn't be the hardest bit
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You should not underestimate it. Microsoft has a lot of restrictions on such things usually. But maybe they are a bit more relaxing for pure xbox live content, I only know about Xbox development in general.
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30 Jan 2008, 20:36
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Let battle commence
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Re: PA on Xbox Live
I don't know exactly, but if you have the product i suspect it'd be easier to get it on than actually developing the product to start with
I know M$ have lots of hoops to jump through.
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31 Jan 2008, 02:04
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Re: PA on Xbox Live
you'd almost be better of making a real time strategy game to play on xbox live with 2-4 players (for instance) instead of the large scale that it is now. in that case it would of course be turned based instead of tick based probably.
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31 Jan 2008, 10:24
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Re: PA on Xbox Live
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Originally Posted by Zaejii
you'd almost be better of making a real time strategy game to play on xbox live with 2-4 players (for instance) instead of the large scale that it is now. in that case it would of course be turned based instead of tick based probably.
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Er, yeah... lets turn PA into a 2-4 player strategy game for the XBox.
That should solve all our problems.
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31 Jan 2008, 15:05
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This Space for Rent
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Re: PA on Xbox Live
didn't say it was a good idea if you wanted to play it on xbox / wii, you can just use the web browser built into the console. no real need to make a game for it (unless you did something to make it different enough to be worth it).
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31 Jan 2008, 15:34
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Let battle commence
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Re: PA on Xbox Live
what browser on the xbox? there isn't one but no, its not a a viable idea really.
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24 Feb 2008, 21:58
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Re: PA on Xbox Live
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Originally Posted by Kenny
Er, yeah... lets turn PA into a 2-4 player strategy game for the XBox.
That should solve all our problems.
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Doesn't planetarion only have 2-4 players left anyway?
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28 Feb 2008, 22:04
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Re: PA on Xbox Live
maybe you should come back to increase the numbers
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28 Feb 2008, 23:24
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Re: PA on Xbox Live
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Originally Posted by Mit
what browser on the xbox? there isn't one but no, its not a a viable idea really.
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Hack the box. LinuXbox ftw.
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28 Feb 2008, 23:41
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I see you!
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Re: PA on Xbox Live
Like anyone would pay several hundred £ for an Xbox and then play Planetarion on it
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1 Mar 2008, 00:05
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Re: PA on Xbox Live
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Like anyone would pay several hundred £ for an Xbox and then play Planetarion on it
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Like anyone would pay several hundred £ for a PC and then play Planetarion on it. Oh, hi.
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1 Mar 2008, 00:19
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Re: PA on Xbox Live
itd be annoying t check anyway, i couldnt imagine it
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1 Mar 2008, 01:15
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Choice of Whacker sir?
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Re: PA on Xbox Live
i think gate your onto something here but i think your trying to target the wrong audience as pointed out. xboxusers want a fast paced game would more than likely go ehhhh nah fairly quick
if we can get our head around the fact that most ppl who play this now sporadically check their accounts over the course of the day and think of a medium to leverage these types of player we may be onto a winner
personally i think pa should be marketing on mobile phones, especially with all the 3g gumph these days. We dont really have to change anything and the phones are now fairly capable of broswing the web and doin funky stuff reasonalbly fast
How funny would it be to get on a random bus/train and see 20 ppl stuck onto their mobile try to organise a gal attack. Maybe thats a little optimistic but hey.
In the climate of social networking sites etc etc it could be even makrketted as a social networking experience with galactic conquest thrown in for boot. Ride the wave a bit
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