Would You Rather ... Ahh! Real Downloads! Edition

I thought this post had something to do with an "Ahh! Real Monsters!" related game and I got really excited for a second....

Are alien hominid and N+ considered large and substantial? Or small?

Let me put it this way, I'm from Australia, MS points here do not match our stronger currency, on top of which, we pay more to get the prepaid cards too. $30 AUD for 1600 points. 800 points = roughly $13.20 but should equal $10 if comparing to US currency (to match).

So what happens is that I am paying $30 for $20. I'm not a fan of losing $10 for nothing...

I bring this arguement up because I dislike doing it, and if I dislike doing it, I am less inclined to purchase large games because I'm not a fan of being ripped off.

So if we had fairer pricing, I would be all over larger, more rich games for XBLA, but for the current time, no, they can die. The funny thing is, we get the shaft (higher price, lack of XBL content, game delays [except for big launches]) because we're not a big enough market, but we're not a big enough market because things have a 50-100% markup over other countries.

Its like rock band for Europe too. I hope that fails because of it

I hope we can have it both ways. I welcome larger/deeper games to the service, but hope it won't put an end to the smaller arcade titles.

I vote for larger, more substantial downloads as long as they don't decide to jack up the price like crazy!

1200ms Points should be the max for most XBA games

Ahh! Real Monsters FTW!!!1

I just played the demo and it was awesome, brought it back old school.

Ok so far it looks like the majority of people are voting for "Bigger more sustainable content for download".

That is exactly what Penny Arcade has done with RSPD yet everyone seems to be crapping on the $20 price tag. They think it is too high for an XBLA game. This seems rather contradicting to me. If one is wanting bigger more sustainable content for download on the XBLA, a higher price tag will come along with it. Plus one must consider $20 for 7-10ish hours of gameplay...that is more than many games that people put down $60 for.

So to me what I can see is that this vote is saying "Yea we want more content for our download games, but we don't want to have to pay any more for them". That just doesn't make sense. To me anyway.

I don't really care.. If a game is good and fun I will buy it. Doesn't matter if it's 50 MB or 5 Gig. Obviously I'd expect the price to reflect the size/production values, but choosing one over the other doesn't make sense to me. It's comparing apples and oranges..

Both.

I enjoy a short game, but I also enjoy a long game. If the game is fun it doesn't really matter.

The only thing that I want is companies to stop porting old Arcade games that are just stupidly hard and kill you instantly, because frankly that is how an Arcade made money. Some people will always be uber, but the average gamer can't get past level 5 on Robotron on default settings.

Hmmmmm another good question actually. As long as having one doesn't get rid of the other then I don't mind.

But I voted for the smaller games. I prefer to have the 'cheap' little arcade games and the full priced big & shiny retail games at the 2 ends of the spectrum.

For me, the XBLA is the closest thing we have to the old Public Domain/Homebrew scene of old.

Maybe if they actually did a serious XNA section then there'd be me scope for the 'bigger' XBLA stuff?

I have plenty of long titles... they are called full games! I look to XBLA for smaller games that I can just pick up and play.

I would like both! Variety is nice.

Damn, people still don't get the concept of Would You Rather. It's a hypothetical question force you to choose one over the other. Even though both may live in perfect harmony in real life.

Smaller games I can jump in, play for five minutes and go to sleep. Larger games would mean I jump in, thinking I'm going to play for five minutes and ended up playing for five hours and fall asleep on my desk the next morning.

We aren't stupid. We get a demo of every game on the service. Let the gamers/consumers choose what we want. If we need the space, we'll buy it. The only thing that would look fishy is if everything was over 512MB and forced people to buy the HDD.

PS2 memory cards still cost $24 for 8MB, and I don't see people complaining about that. We have a choice about the storage we need, and we can choose to upgrade. It would be nice if it was cheaper, but it's not the end of the world. I have over 40 XBLA games, a few demos, some marketplace TV shows, and a ton of xbox and 360 game saves. All on 14GB.

If larger file sizes means more expensive, then forget it. I like the best of the games on the service now, and the arcade titles, but for a downloaded game, the most I'm willing to pay is $10. Even then, it's gotta be pretty awesome.

Still stuck with a 20GB hard drive.

I voted for shorter, even though I want larger downloadable titles. Why? Well the ADD makes me impatient, and it's painful when I sit there and wait for demos, DLC, etc...to dl. But more importantly, until M$ loosens up and allows us to use larger (and more reasonably priced) hard drives, it'll never happen for me.