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Re: 7/22 FAQ

Nick Gravelyn — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:44:33 GMT

Please read the officially released FAQ for the Xbox LIVE Community Games here: http://creators.xna.com/en-us/XboxLIVECommunityGames.Then please take all further comments and questions to the official announcement thread for Xbox LIVE Community Games: http://forums.xna.com/forums/t/14582.aspx.

Re: 7/22 FAQ

Octoplow — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:57:46 GMT

Exciting stuff!

Live on 360 has no consumer ratings or free demos? It's only on xbox.com? ...meaning demos are for PC only?

What happens to purchased games when a community game gets revoked? A refund?

Re: Availability per country

Jenkmeister — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:07:40 GMT

The ZMan:

We have always told people that CC was availalbe if XBL is availalbe... hoever we recently found out tht that is NOT the case for India.

Nobody from Microsoft has clarified this so right now we can't help people since there is no list of countries that the CC is officially available in. You just have to hope someone from NZ pops in here and confirms it.

Here's the list of countries approved for creators club membership... We'll be adding this to our FAQ in the coming weeks:

Available in:

'AUSTRALIA', 'AUSTRIA', 'BELGIUM', 'CANADA', 'DENMARK', 'FINLAND', 'FRANCE', 'GERMANY', 'HONG KONG', 'IRELAND', 'ITALY', 'JAPAN', 'MEXICO', 'NETHERLANDS', 'NEW ZEALAND', 'NORWAY', 'PORTUGAL', 'SINGAPORE', 'SPAIN', 'SWEDEN', 'SWITZERLAND', 'TAIWAN', 'UNITED KINGDOM', 'UNITED STATES'

Not available in:

'INDIA', 'KOREA, REPUBLIC OF'

If it's not in the list above, then it's really not available.

Re: Removing a game

Pheel — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:52:23 GMT

Mr Brian:
Can I remove a game I have submitted, while/after it is approved?

We're still working on our plan for final release but we do plan to have a mechanism to stop a game from being published to the Marketplace. The current mechanism will unlikely the used at launch

Obviously more details as time goes on :)

Re: Removing a game

Mordi — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:10:56 GMT

Wow, great new design for the site. Absoluletly brilliant.

I have a problem. I can't see the "Community Games Beta" button on my profile page. Any reason for that?

Edit: Alright, I just noticed someone mentioned it being available only in the US. Would have been nice if you had written that clearly on the quick-start page.

Re: Removing a game

The ZMan — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:27:35 GMT

You can remve it from the website though I have no idea what it will do on the xbox side if it is approved. Try it and see - this is what the beta is for. Then let us all know. Just make a demo game and put in the description that you are testing removal... folk should let it through as long as it doesn't crash.

MS have said that if someone already has downloaded it it will not be forcibly removed from their machines though

Re: Removing a game

Mr Brian — Sat, 31 May 2008 08:26:59 GMT

Can I remove a game I have submitted, while/after it is approved?

Re: Availability per country

Kiwillian — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:37:50 GMT

The ZMan:
We have always told people that CC was availalbe if XBL is availalbe... hoever we recently found out tht that is NOT the case for India.

Nobody from Microsoft has clarified this so right now we can't help people since there is no list of countries that the CC is officially available in. You just have to hope someone from NZ pops in here and confirms it.

OK, thanks for the clarification. As Adam mentioned I had read it as the premium service in the chart you posted was unavailable outside the US rather than the general download of community games, hence my initial confusion.

Re: Availability per country

The ZMan — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:38:46 GMT

We have always told people that CC was availalbe if XBL is availalbe... hoever we recently found out tht that is NOT the case for India.

Nobody from Microsoft has clarified this so right now we can't help people since there is no list of countries that the CC is officially available in. You just have to hope someone from NZ pops in here and confirms it.

Re: Availability per country

ajmiles — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:51:03 GMT

Jim, I think he was referring more to the fact that he didn't think CC was available in New Zealand, not the Community Games Beta specifically. He's saying that CC isn't available on the dash, but it is if he tries to buy it online. I was going to reply but wasn't sure if CC is yet available in New Zealand...

If it is, perhaps your parental settings are set such that the CC memberships aren't displayed in the dash, but can be circumvented by buying your CC online? If CC isn't available in New Zealand, then I'm not sure what will happen if you manage to buy it online and whether you'd be able to use it...

Re: Availability per country

Jim Perry — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:44:53 GMT

Kiwillian:

Bit scary if it would charge me then deny me access due to my location =/

So I'm not sure what the deal is here.

The deal is you didn't do your research:

Notice item 3 at the bottom.

Re: Availability per country

Kiwillian — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:49:57 GMT

Adam Miles:
Nope, just the US for now. Other countries "in the coming months", and most (if not all?) live regions when 3.0 is finished at the end of the year.

I'm in New Zealand and although the XNA menu on the Marketplace just had the two utilities and no membership option that was alluded to somewhere, this website seems more that happy to take my money. I can get all the way to "Confirm Purchase" with a note that my CC will be charged in the next step. It even picked up my CC details from my XBLA account.

I didn't click it, just in case, so it's possible it would tell me to go away if I did and I don't really want to spend US$80 or more to find out.

Bit scary if it would charge me then deny me access due to my location =/

So I'm not sure what the deal is here.

Re: Xbox LIVE Community Games Discussion thread

AzBat360 — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:39:35 GMT

jwatte:
150 MB means that someone who doesn't have a hard disk, but only the flash save card (which is 256 MB) can fit one or two games on each save card.
I don't think that limit is going to change. If you target for higher, you're better off targeting DVD and getting a publisher for the real XDK kit.

They make a 512mb memory card. Plenty of room for a max 350mb game. Microsoft wouldn't have upped the limit if they didn't have a bigger memory card.

Tommy McClain

Re: Xbox LIVE Community Games Discussion thread

jwatte — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:17:30 GMT

150 MB means that someone who doesn't have a hard disk, but only the flash save card (which is 256 MB) can fit one or two games on each save card.

I don't think that limit is going to change. If you target for higher, you're better off targeting DVD and getting a publisher for the real XDK kit.

Re: Xbox LIVE Community Games Discussion thread

JohnDoe — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:50:00 GMT

Thanks for the comments on this, Adam.

The ZMan:
Also remember one of the reasons for a 6 month beta is to iron out exactly these sorts of issues so make sure your feedback on things like updates and versions, and pulling when you go commercial get put into connect.

Sure, I know that is still beta - that's why I just thought, the earlier something is being brought up, the more time there is to think about how to tackle it.