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just to be clear, I didn't want to ask for legal or copyright things, I know these are dark waters. I wanted to see how the community would react to well known titles despite it is legal or not and the developer declares it has full rights to use them.

[quote user="DrMistry"] The ability to go to peer review and have a game live on the service is GRANTED by Microsoft[/quote] This is valid for both games and non-games. I hate crap apps and I hate crap games as well. No difference for me, crap is crap. But they pass the review process and they (sometime) are top selling stuffs ...

[quote user="WolRon"]There are MANY different kinds of games, and many people are entertained in different ways.  We should not take it upon ourselves to determine for them (the XBox gamers) what kinds of entertainment they can or cannot be entertained by.  Let them choose for themselves.  If its a game, so be ...

[quote user="Nick Gravelyn"]To be clear and fair, no game or app has the right to exist on the Xbox Marketplace; Microsoft has given us the privilege and can change or revoke that as they please. I think it's good for people to remember that.[/quote] Sure! They have the power to remove every app (or game) if they want! They have ...

[quote user="DrMistry"]Someone with a great deal of influence on the future of XBLIG has said that he'd love to give us access to achievements, but that apps on the service are a major blocker to that moving forward. [/quote] Do you really think it is this blocking them? They have the power to change the rules in every ...

[quote user="Jim Perry"][quote user="Running Pixel"]I'm pretty sure that if MS decides to give us achievements there will be shared common rules good for everything.[/quote] If I'm understanding this correctly you're saying that you believe all submissions to XBLIG will be given the ability to have achievements. ...

[quote user="The ZMan"]The question you have to ask yourself - is it worth it?[/quote] Obviously NOT. OMG! I have seen that even "Pinocchio" is a registered Trademark (Pinocchio is a Collodi's character, not a Disney's one) edit: I don't want to take this 3d to a legal debate, but register the ...

[quote user="Stegersaurus Games"]you'll find two LIVE filings for "Dante's Inferno" from Electronic Arts registering the name for use for various video-game related uses.[/quote] OMG! I'm not sure this is valid, nobody can claim any Dante's opera (titles included). It is "human heritage". They ...

[quote user="George Clingerman"]All I know is that I am DEFINITELY not in favor of restricting the types of things that can be released. I'm all for improving reviewers and the review system though. And if after that happened, if things that I think don't belong on the service still pass I'll just have to accept that it ...