QUOTE(dmitri @ Jan 30 2007, 10:58 PM)
It's a sad world we live in when people think they DESERVE to play homebrew.
Why not put away your pirated Mame dvds and buy a game and support the economy for once?
-dp
Yes, we deserve to play homebrew. We don't deserve to have all homebrew free, but we do deserve to be able to run content that someone developes. If the author wishes to charge for their work, that's perfectly fine. MS charging you to play someone else's work is rediculous. To make matters worse, it's a 'sub-homebrew' catagory with XNA. It limits what the developer has at their disposal concerning the 360 and it's hardware. As for "supporting the economy for once", perhaps you don't know that thousands of people have gotten jobs with software companies from showing their "homebrew" efforts (even from the old ROMhacking scene).
Saying we don't deserve to play homebrew is like saying MS should just always tell us what to do with their products, and we shouldn't ask questions.
PS: Many of us homebrew lovers do NOT have pirated MAME... since you so eloquently mentioned "pirated MAME" out of nowhere (NOBODY was talking about MAME), I would infer that YOU pirate MAME, mr. stone-thrower
Thank you for attempting to burst the homebrew bubble. Please come again