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Starting this holiday, all Xbox LIVE users in selected regions will be able to download and play community games. For now, playing community games on Xbox LIVE starts with a Premium membership in the XNA Creators Club.
So for now it's $49 (for 4 month let's say) + Silver or Gold LIVE subscription
This summer it should be only the cost of LIVE subscription for players.
Still... money to give for homebrew... LIVE subscription value is the infrastructure able to absorb many online players. If homebrew is not an online game, I don't see the point of paying...
Since looking around for free flash games on PC will bring, for sure, at least, the same (off-line) pleasure, I don't see how xn/a can be promoted efficiently...
They should focus on online games. Instead of that they talk about 'old school' RPG's... There are tons of free solutions for making RPG homebrew.