American Ninja Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Bizarre: "We Wanted Geo Wars to be Free"UK dev wanted XBLA title to be a "gift to hardcore gamers." by Rob Burman, IGN UK UK, March 14, 2007 - Ben Ward, Community and Web lead at Bizarre Creations, has revealed the developer originally wanted the cult classic Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved to be given away free on Xbox Live Arcade as "a gift to hardcore gamers". In an interview with IGN, Ward said that Bizarre didn't really view Arcade as a way to make money and initally the dev was keen to make the action-packed shooter a free download. However, due to restrictions Bizarre was forced to charge for the game, although insisted Microsoft put it out in Live's lowest price bracket - 400 MS points. You can read the full interview with Ward, in which he also reveals more details about Bizarre's upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game, Boom Boom Rocket, here. Source: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/772/772652p1.html Oh well free would of been cool but 400 points isnt that much. Wonder if their next game will be free? :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addc182 Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 depends if they can break these "restrictions" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troist Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 microsoft would never miss out on an oppurtunity for extra money... heck, i expect bizarre are probably happy they charged for it... imagine how much they've made off geo wars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magik Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 It doesn't make sense for them to give it away for free. Maybe it could have come with PGR or something, but still. Either way, 400MSP really isn't that much anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AimLXJ Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Aw no free game :(, hopefully somewhere in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olemus Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 Theres always totemball my friend :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pc_Madness Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 Why won't MS let people give away a free Arcade game? :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabian- Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 Why won't MS let people give away a free Arcade game? :\ they only like to give away Joust and Robotron :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGS4-SS Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 they only like to give away Joust and Robotron :p Yeah, the crappiest ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goatsniffer Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 Believe it or not, Microsoft is out to make money. Supprising? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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