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[spurs2k5]

QUOTE(GomerPyle @ May 12 2009, 01:38 AM)

Explain to me why everthing is free for Burnout? That game has had so many new content its crazy!!!!

And its all FREE! Other developers could do the same

Remember when the whole XNA fiasco was going on about price, and how M$ was to set certain prices. Kinda dumb if you ask me since you were limited on what you could create due the size limitation. As for Burnout, i never played it, so i dont know nothing about it, only that the content is something like 7 cars thats it. As for the Burnout Bike version....NOTHING IS FREE. Just like 1 item. Like i said earlier, sponsors help make content free, due to M$ getting $$$ still. Discovery Channel sponsored the GOW 1st map pack and that was free. As i stated b4, M$ will not let you put DLC for free on XBL without some sort of compensation. Ea makes burnout so its possible that they worked something out with M$ financially. Im not saying thats what happened, but why not? M$ is $$$ hungry and hardly anything is free. Why must one pay almost $10 just to change their name? DLC is no different, its getting out of control.

[Reaper527]

QUOTE(spurs2k5 @ May 7 2009, 01:35 PM)

While i agree with most of what u said, you didnt mention that M$ will not allow DLC to be free. Thats why every blue moon when there is a new free map pack or something similar, they are sponsored. So while the devs really wouldnt make DLC free if they could i think, M$ is also worth mentioning here not just the devs.

i actually randomly ended up reading something about this yesterday, so i figured i'd come back to this thread and post my findings.

http://en.wikipedia....ive_Marketplace

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A notable incident was Microsoft charging for a Gears of War map pack that developer Epic desired to provide at no cost (although it was made free four months later in September 2007).[18] Exacerbating the controversy, Game Informer made claims that Microsoft forced companies to charge for content the company itself wanted to distribute free.[19] In this case, Microsoft Publishing was responsible for setting the price, with this not actually being a policy of the Xbox team or Xbox Live Marketplace as was implied. Free content is indeed possible

so it wasn't a microsoft marketplace policy that caused the charge, it was the fact that the game was published by microsoft game studios, and as a result, the publisher sets the price for dlc, not the developer.

[ZX3Junglist]

QUOTE(GomerPyle @ May 12 2009, 01:38 AM)

Explain to me why everthing is free for Burnout? That game has had so many new content its crazy!!!!

And its all FREE! Other developers could do the same

I believe it's for standalone content that MS will not allow free DLC. The best example of this is Bizarre, who wanted Geometry Wars to be free. Microsoft would only let them release it at the bare minimum price of 400 points. With the advent of community games, we saw the bar lowered to 200 points.

Source: http://xbox.joystiq....ars-to-be-free/