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Something i’ve been watching with interest is Microsoft XNA<\/p>\n

I’m (just!) old enough to remember when games didn’t have huge budgets, teams of developers, HD graphics and orchestra like soundtracks and that anyone could write one in their own bedroom. When i first started to learn BASIC all i wanted to do was write games and was delighted when i finally managed to create a character that was really just a couple of coloured pixels that i could move on screen with my arrow keys. I don’t remember being that thrilled when I first created an ADO database connection (ok maybe it was different kind of thrilled <blush>)<\/p>\n

Surely all young geeks think this way?<\/p>\n

Who grows up dreaming of developing the best productivity suite the world has seen?<\/p>\n

So when i heard Microsoft were trying to spark a revival i was quite interested to see how it would pan out. I was never going to take the plunge though as my actual attempts at game creation usually stop when i realise i don’t have any original ideas!<\/p>\n

So i’m a little curious that you can download the tools for free<\/a> but if you want to even play any of these games you need to be a subscriber to the XNA Creators Club<\/a>. So if you create the next first person shooter that will rival Halo 3<\/a> you can’t actually show it off to the world? Instead you can only show them to other developers?<\/p>\n

Have i got the wrong end of the stick?<\/p>\n

Surely the whole point in creating games is so people can play them?<\/p>\n

I sort of understand charging developers and giving them access to resources that will help them develop new games<\/p>\n

I have lots of friends who have games consoles but no interest in programming and development. They have already paid for their console, their Live membership<\/a> and tons of games. They even pay for the “classics” from Xbox Live Arcade so why are they going to pay a subscription on the off chance someone might create a classic?<\/p>\n

Can someone please explain to me how Microsoft expect this will work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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