N+ creators speak their minds on Xbox Live Arcade’s game quality issues

Creators of N+, a ninja action game for the Xbox Live Arcade, sat down for a short interview. Raigan Burns and Mare Sheppard questioned the state of the games found in the online service. These two used sharp words in giving out their opinion. Find out what they had to say in the full article.

Raigan Burns and Mare Sheppard sat down for a quick interview with Gamasutra. These outspoken people gave their comments on how the Xbox Live Arcade is overwhelmed with quality issues of publisher-guided games.

Burns said that he remembered talking with Microsoft about developing games for the XBLA two years ago. Since the service was relatively new, he thought that Live Arcade wouldn’t be like retail because there were going to be small, great, fun things in it. What’s really ironic now is that Xbox Live Arcade is now filled with big-budget games with big publishers making them.

Furthermore, Burns said that “the real problem, I think, is that the same people who are deciding what retail games get greenlit are deciding what Live Arcade games get greenlit.” He added that decisions made by the big publishers are ruining Live Arcade.

Burns provided an example of this by saying racing games have saturated Live Arcade. The reason being is that the big publishers have “greenlit like ten really shitty racing games.” Simply put, “there’s no good racing games.”

Last, Burns spoke his mind regarding the games found on Xbox Live Arcade’s game. He said:

If I was a consumer, I could see not even looking at Live Arcade games anymore if I had downloaded 10 or 20 demos, because at a certain point, you’re like, whatever. Maybe there’s a good game in here.

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Via Gamasutra