Xbox Live Community Games Dev Decries Poor Sales

[Raptor]

From wired.com:

Despite its pre-launch hype, developers who have opted to release games under Microsoft's Xbox Live Community Games banner are finding that their titles aren't attracting the vast audience they'd hoped for.

In a blog post detailing the newly released sales figures for caffeine monster software's DUOtrix, creator Mobeen Fikree points out that while the demo for his game was downloaded 7,438 times, only 157 copies of the full version were paid for by consumers.

Continuing, Fikree believes that the poor exposure of XBLCG games is to blame for the poor sales of DUOtrix:
"I think DUOtrix quickly got lost in the flood of games on XBCG," Fikree writes. "We were on the 'featured 5' list on the Community Games page at launch, which is where most of the traffic came from. When we were pulled off the list in December the downloads slowed down dramatically."

Full Story: wired.com

[flik]

Crap games don't sell well normally so why is this guy crying like a Pussy ? Perhaps he should develop some games for the Iphone instead !

On a serious note I don't think any of the community games are worth purchasing tbh !

[Fear345]

For some strange reason i downloaded the fireplace from live community and i think they wanted like £4 for it what a complete joke.

[Chubbs]

Essentially aren't these just shareware / public domain type games - 4 quid a pop - no chance.

Free games would be a better 'community' vibe surely?

[ant3b]

Also you NEED to be online to play them

[Flat]

idd. i dont get it. m$ would have gotten much better publicity if they created some kind of open source portal for a console.

[witchy2k1]

There is a vibrator thingy available.

You can either control it yourself or get someone to control it for you over Live, kinky.

[raelmadrid]

if they added achievments, maybe 100 points per game that would improve sales