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Major Nelson tries to explain Marketplace content delays

Our good friend Major Nelson noticed the complaining about the fact that Marketplace content like the Prey demo and Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting still isn't available. He has tried to explain the reasoning behind these delays and blames the extensive certification process. The Major doesn't know when the stuff is released and he asks for sympathy. He draws the comparison between Marketplace contents delays and general games delays, "let me ask you how many times have you gone to a game store or checked your favorite gaming website and found out that the release date of your highly anticipated title was moved?", he said.

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Published: 1287 days 11 hours ago | News | Xbox 360

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Nodoze - 1287 days 11 hours ago

1 - Bogus response!

Let me thank the Major firsthand for assisting to manage MY expectations. Personally he should call George at 3d Realms, as I am only a consumer, whereas he is a producer of content that needs to be posted to sell. With that out of the way, I have to then ask, why are Street Fighter, Pac Man, Galaga, and Frogger already on the partner marketplace for publications? Sounds to me like they have passed 'certification' and are being held!

I don't mind guaging my expectations, but what the hell takes so long to certify demo releases?? I guess Chromehounds is still going through this extensive process almost two full months after it was released to MS??
HAHA WHATEVER!!

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EVER OLVERA - 1287 days 10 hours ago

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It would help if we knew a few details concerning the certification process in order to further understand the delays...Maybe the demos are complete, but MS rather delays the demos in order to insure any security breaches to the 360, who knows...

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FamoAmo - 1287 days 10 hours ago

3 - agreed

I agree it would be nice to know the process!!

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Thor1j1 - 1287 days 10 hours ago

4 - i still think they hold them back

until its strategically usefull to them. like at e3, or the begining of spring, fall. i think right now is important. alot of angry people around going into a time when the competitors are launching. what happens if prey, chromehounds and bfme2 suck? in the winter we had cod2, spring we had graw/oblivion, and now its summer and no AAA title. i highly doubt we get one until september if then.

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Scrooge - 1287 days 10 hours ago

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MS said that XBL arcade is a great place for small developers to get their games noticed. Who's gonna make games for XBL arcade if the process to make them available is so difficult? MS needs to find another way to certify this content, cause this isn't working. It needs to be more efficient!

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joemutt - 1287 days 9 hours ago

6 - I think #2 is right

A programmer could easily put a code in the demo, a virus if you will, that will either benefit him, be bad for his competitors, or be bad for MS.

They are still new to this marketplace thing, I agree they should pick up the pace a little, but a virus that wiped out your gamerscore could severely threaten XBL. I hope this is why things are kinda slow right now.

Remember the first year of live? Thats kinda how the marketplace is now. Think of how great it will be in a year.

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KoRnALIVE - 1287 days 9 hours ago

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No Prey and no Street Fighter make Major Nelson something something...
Go crazy?
Don't mind if I do!

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KoRnALIVE - 1287 days 9 hours ago

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oh .. yeah one more thing! I don't care how complex or hard it is to bring content onto the Xbox Marketplace. Who's fault is that, Microsoft's or mine? I don't hear Nintendo or Sony telling me to manage my expectations when it comes to the number of titles they'll be offering online, so why exactly should I support your convoluted system that hasn't produced anything in terms of actual game content for a month?

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FamoAmo - 1287 days 9 hours ago

8.1 - Your comment is pointless

Seriously Snow f@g your comment is pointless.. MS doesn't want you to support them you like the ps3 remember!! Also anyone who thinks wipeout is a good series should just STFU!!

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Sphinx - 1287 days 9 hours ago

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...I'm in love...she likes videogames and has an attitude! :)

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PS360WiiRocks - 1287 days 9 hours ago

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yeah this is getting rediculous I want my f'ing demos!

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Mighty Boom - 1287 days 9 hours ago

10 - WHAT!!!

Screw Major Nelson! Give me my content and stop trying to build hype A-Hole!!!!!

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DG - 1287 days 8 hours ago

11 - Aghhh Bull$#!T

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MISSY E - 1287 days 7 hours ago

12 - Good job MS

People biitching is a good sign people care. Now where the heck is frogger.

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Terry Tate - 1287 days 7 hours ago

13 - Good work

If they didn't take the time to carefully scrutinize everything, then you would all be complaining even more when it didn't work correctly. Chill out, the content will be up soon.

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PS360WiiRocks - 1287 days 6 hours ago

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Ok bill. it's not that their "carefully scrutinizing everything" it's that the demos take forever for release if they take this long they need to change the release or get them earlier, theirs better ways to do this than what their doing that's for sure.

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haloalldaylo - 1287 days 6 hours ago

14 - How can a game already made long ago take so long?

damn.

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Nodoze - 1287 days 4 hours ago

15 - Solution to this problem

If the Peter Moore, and the others in MS marketing would stop blabbing about all the great content BLAH BLAH BLAH then we would be fine. E3 took place almost two full months ago, at which time there was mention of all these greast Arcade titles. All of the mentioned titles have been available to partners ON MARKETPLACE for almost a full month. We have press articles previewing all of the titles and providing us videos and screenshots. Then we wait...and wait some more...and continue waiting!?! So either post the damn titles, or STFU about them. This is like going to a local restaurant and being able to view the menu, see pictures of the glorious food, but never being able to order some for yourself!? We are hungry for content, yet we starve.

One more thing, with respect to the comment by Nelson about aligning my expectations. If MS hadn't talked so damn much about all this new content, we wouldn't have these expectations in the first place!!!

Put up, or STFU!!

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Schmitty07 - 1286 days 16 hours ago

15.1 - Yeah we don't want them to be like Sony

With all the underpromises

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Asylumchild - 1287 days 1 hour ago

16 - I got to say one thing

OK news4gamers IF the INFO you gave us abotu the call of duty2 maps arnt out later today I will no longer use you site becuase you lied abotu the PREY DEMO and HOPEFULLY you dident lie abotu the MAPS thank you lol

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Grown Folks Talk - 1287 days 1 hour ago

17 - people wouldn't care...

if they didn't give specific dates. don't say june 29th, and then june 29th it's not there. just say it's coming, or in june. quit giving a specific date if you can't reach it.

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