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Posted: May 14th 2007 5:38PM ccc said

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Sweet
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Posted: May 14th 2007 5:46PM (Unverified) said

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yeah sweet for you yanks.
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Posted: May 14th 2007 5:57PM Andre said

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At least Canada isn't left out. :)
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Posted: May 14th 2007 6:02PM (Unverified) said

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Fuckin' American exclusive content pisses me right off. We dont get movies, half the themes and gamer pics you get. Its fucked up
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Posted: May 14th 2007 6:04PM (Unverified) said

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OMG I was really looking forward to this game, now I find out its not coming to Europe. Thanks a bunch Microsoft. Why do all the gaming companies shit on us? Nintendo are by far the worst for this, as much as I love them.

Sort it out gaming firms, the UK is most definatley one of your prime markets, so stop dropping trow and dumping on us so frequently yer?
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Posted: May 14th 2007 6:05PM HeyApples said

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Free? MS doesn't do free, I just can't guess the alterior motive in this case.

Maybe some sort of stealth monitoring / spyware or related is bundled in with it.

There's obviously precedent for it with the January dashboard update.
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Posted: May 14th 2007 6:07PM hotpuck6 said

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mmmmm.
free games taste better than free tacos.
hooray.
This wednesday will rock.
My thursday and friday final will not.
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Posted: May 14th 2007 6:08PM (Unverified) said

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I put it down to being a trap ('It's a trap!')

Microsoft makes a free arcade games to one region and monitors how many people register new American XBL accounts. This isn't exactly a crazy theory given that they claimed they were cracking down on fake accounts only a few days ago
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Posted: May 14th 2007 6:17PM Magic Whiskey said

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Eh, it's a free game with (I hope) a free chance to boost up another 200 Achievements..so why not? I feel for you, European gamers! :(
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Posted: May 14th 2007 6:18PM Magic Whiskey said

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..I'd like to try 'Zero Wing'....


all your base are belong to us! For great justice...
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Posted: May 14th 2007 6:27PM (Unverified) said

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Yee sounds good fellas. Probably couldn't make it across the world because it's free. It could also just be a test, since it is the first fully free game on XBLA.

I dunt think global games should fret, it's when free North American games become constant is when a fuss i deserved
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Posted: May 14th 2007 6:34PM (Unverified) said

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gamers*, yee and the last sentence is grammatically incorrect but meh***
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Posted: May 14th 2007 6:35PM (Unverified) said

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That's completely unfair!
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Posted: May 14th 2007 6:35PM (Unverified) said

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I'm a European living in an American world...
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Posted: May 14th 2007 6:38PM (Unverified) said

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I really don't see why they don't launch it in Europe. It's this type of thing that helps sell consoles!!
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Posted: May 14th 2007 6:55PM LetsHaveWaffles said

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I feel for the europeans. I'm just waiting for someone to say something like, "The graphics look horrible or blah blah." If anyone complains about a free game when they have it, they need to get shot. That's all I have to say.
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Posted: May 14th 2007 7:10PM (Unverified) said

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As a Swedish Xbox 360 user, I demand to know why you - Microsoft - are denying us Europeans a project that you have developed yourself?

Please don't give us give us the old localization story again. It is getting tiresome. Scandinavia has never received localized content, nor do we require it. Believe it or not, but our movies aren't even dubbed.

That being said, I am really looking forward to your excuse thie time. The old Microsoft mantra "Europe is really important to us" is getting thinner and thinner by the minute.
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Posted: May 14th 2007 7:12PM (Unverified) said

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"God bless America, land of the free."
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Posted: May 14th 2007 7:28PM (Unverified) said

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they should bust out with zero wing for xbla. hahah.



all your base are belong to us!

OH NOEZ THEY SET US UP AT THE BOMB!
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Posted: May 14th 2007 7:40PM (Unverified) said

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"Yee sounds good fellas. Probably couldn't make it across the world because it's free. It could also just be a test, since it is the first fully free game on XBLA.

I dunt think global games should fret, it's when free North American games become constant is when a fuss i deserved"

It's actually the second. Not that anyone liked Totem Ball.
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Posted: May 14th 2007 8:01PM LetsHaveWaffles said

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Ummmm...Texas Hold'em was free for 48 hours when it released. So sorry CalabreZ not the first. Yes, Totem ball was stupid and annoying, but not the first FREE game either, Tony.
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Posted: May 14th 2007 8:10PM (Unverified) said

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Nice!
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Posted: May 14th 2007 8:27PM (Unverified) said

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@ 21 Killer. What I said was first fully free game, not 48 hr of no pay.

And about Totem Ball, meh, it's not a real game:P
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Posted: May 14th 2007 8:46PM ShapeGSX said

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"Maybe some sort of stealth monitoring / spyware or related is bundled in with it."

Oh yeah, they really need to use a free game to monitor users of their closed and internet capable console system.

Jeez, the things people come up with.
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Posted: May 14th 2007 9:49PM Hak Foo said

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The joystiq post claims this is for a limited time only. Therefore not a fully free game.
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Posted: May 14th 2007 9:54PM (Unverified) said

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It's easy - the new spring update supposedly blocks out foreign IPs - a US only release of a free game? It's a great benchmark for those of us with US accounts and (ahem) proxy servers :)
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Posted: May 14th 2007 11:02PM JonahFalcon said

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Via Joystiq? I sent it to X360 FB AND Joystiq 36 hours ago.
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Posted: May 14th 2007 11:08PM (Unverified) said

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"Free? MS doesn't do free, I just can't guess the alterior motive in this case.

Maybe some sort of stealth monitoring / spyware or related is bundled in with it."

This is about as goofy a theory as you could come up with. It's a first-party game. Because of the Xbox 360 dashboard, if your console is online, Microsoft already knows what games you play and what you're doing. Why would they need to sneak spyware in an arcade game? There was just a frickin' dashboard update last week, for crying out loud.

(Also, I believe ulterior is the word you're looking for.)
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Posted: May 15th 2007 4:40AM (Unverified) said

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So, just what are the reasons/legalities for not releasing this outside of the the US?

I hoped for (at worst) a timed delay before this is available in UK.

But never? Never ever? Why?
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Posted: May 15th 2007 7:49AM (Unverified) said

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This is extreamly unfair, I am almost certain Microsoft doesnt care about anyone except the U.S and Canada
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Posted: May 15th 2007 9:07AM xenocidic said

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how do they reconcile this free arcade game release with the statement that Bizzarre put out that Microsoft wouldn't let them release Geometry Wars for free?
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Posted: May 15th 2007 9:53AM (Unverified) said

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I wouldn't mind but Peter Moore is from friggin liverpool...
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Posted: May 15th 2007 10:11AM (Unverified) said

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Every part of the world has something exclusive to them. So calm down everyone, sheesh.

As Americans, we don't get the 50 other soccer games that come out in Europe or the 50 "insert your finger into the giant ass" simulators that Japan produces every year.
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Posted: May 15th 2007 5:39PM gundamxzero said

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Free?

I thought you cant do free on the ol XBLA, that was geometry war's excuse. let me recall, "oh we would have made it free but microsoft wouldnt let us" I gotta call someones bs on that.

None the less I cant complain about free, heres to wednesday!
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Posted: May 15th 2007 3:00PM (Unverified) said

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Everybody likes free stuff
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