Braid dev wanted theme to be free Comments by Robert Purchese

Insightful bile KingsX. Truly a compelling arguement you put forward there. You might find this to be useful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation

dominalien, it wouldn't surprise me to see it at some point in the future. MS trying to lock-down Windows in the manner you described earlier would be one such incentive and MS seem determined to pick a fight with Google so who knows.

I welcome it at any rate.

What are you smoking, Mogs?

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Sorry, but Mogs is right. If Microsoft tried to require every piece of software being vetted in order to run on Windows, then another OS would replace it very quickly indeed.

Computers are the greatest invention of modern times, not Windows computers. Millions of industries would fall apart if they couldn't run propietary software, that's why I called it a ridiculous idea. MS would be commiting suicide.

@KingsXKing

Welcome to my ignore list.

@Mogs
Look at it from another perspective: for developers, it's VERY convenient to have ONE system, ONE development tool, ONE architecture.

Competition is good for consumers (or is it? switching consoles is easy - as we can see with the Playstation brand, switching computers/systems not so much. Most people will make fun of Macs and the OS X, having used them very little if at all, pretty much like I did the four or five years ago when I first saw one. So probably competition in operating systems is NOT seen as good by consumers themselves. It's all about perception.), but it isn't very good for (in this case) developers.

MS has always been good to developers (with their good, if not cheap, tools) and they have replied in kind. A new system is new tools; it takes effort to convince developers to use them. Apple nailed it good with the iPhone, for one.

And a system, beyond basic stability/speed, really is apps. Why is Linux useless? No Photoshop, no games, no other "essential" commercial software. Why? As the dead old guy from "I, robot" with Will Smith would say: "That is the right question".

This Braid dev is a big headed looser who seems out of touch with reality. Hes probably ringing up the gaming press saying hes pissed at microsoft for "forcing" him to charge while bathing in a bath of money. Take my advice dude, shut up. You made one good game, congrats. Now go away, nobody cares what you think.

Anyone start an online petition yet?

Since we know there are free themes on XBL then the question is why MS can tell Mr. Blow that he has to charge for his theme. The simple answer is that MS must have financed Braid and thus has a say in what can be delivered on XBL free or not free just like Gears of War.

With that said, I am sure Mr. Blow knew that MS would charge for the content but since he is an Indie dev, he can put the blame on MS and still smell like a flower. I am sure if Mr. Blow would like to pay to have the theme free, MS would agree to that but then again who would be that stupid. There probably is a method to MS madness where you have to produce enough sold content before you can give things away for free. Delivering content is definitely not cheap and even though MS probaby do make a profit from XBL, I am sure they want to continue to make a profit. One rule fits them all.

As for Google making their own OS and selling it for free, I am sure google wants no part of that. Even Apple doesn't sell their OS for free and for good reason. Development on a OS cost a lot of money. It cost even more if you are going up agaisnt MS and Apple. Since Goolge doesn't make their own hardware like Apple, they would have to support a huge amount of Hardware and software. Even if Google build the OS off of a linux kernal, the cost would still be high because they would need to customize the build that made it unique from everyone else and good enough to stand on it's own. Just because Google name is behind it doesn't come close to making it a success. Keeping the OS in BETA like they do most of their products will not be a win that will gather developers and hardware OEMs to their OS.

But they do innovate in how many competitors's games and features they can rip of within a few years while still being called innovative... Lips, SceneIT, Live Vision games, Avatars :D

Sony seem to be able to convince the gullable they are innovative though dont they? Who said any of those games/concepts were innovative? I didnt even consider their equivelants innovative(not a single one of them).

Sega>Nintendo>MS>Sony thats the order I place them in for innovation.

"this is what they did years ago with the first windows system that came out years ago on the first home computer."

Not many Mac users on this site then?? I expected a torrent of abuse when I first read this :)

Sorry but I can't resist pushing back at some of the BS in here re alternative OS's to MS/Windows.

If it was that easy then it would have been done already, given the potential rewards.

You may not like MS for many, many reasons but for the PC platform they are head and shoulders, and I mean HEAD AND SHOULDERS above any of the so-called competition when it comes to their OS' and most of their applications too.

I say again, bring it the fuck on if you think you can do it better - of course, 99.999% of people wouldn't know what 0.001% of 'it' is ...

because of the live fee for predominantly p2p gaming, ALL themes and gamerpics should be free, just as stuff for home should be free.

as others have said and as retailers are finding out right now, keep your money in your pocket. when things become desperate, watch the prices tumble. shit, i bet even the live fee would take a slashing if people started playing more on the pc or ps3.

Back on-topic, I think the price of DLC is too high, especially as retailers swiftly move boxed games into bargain bins due to the time of year and tight economic conditions. I bought Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts for £15 from a proper shop the other day, brand new and still wrapped in cellophane. How can I then justify spending 1200 Microsoft Points on the original Banjo Kazooie, a ten-year-old N64 game? I'd quite like to have it, but I'm simply not paying that when there are so many great new boxed games being sold cheap.

PC. Giving you independence.

Poor old Blow, so flipping hard done by, is given another soapbox to have yet another whinge by idiots who still think he and Braid were the Second Coming. Keep it up, soon the Wikipedia edit that Blow "needs to stfu" will be allowed to stay as it will be factual. ;)

It really is unfair for Microsoft to make me pay for their dlc. They should not try to make money like every other company out there. They shouldn't try to pay their expenses with my money. It's so easy to provide their services anyone can do it, why can't they just give us free stuff? Get real people. Microsoft is number one. That's why everyone hates them. The same reason so many around the world hate America, because we're number one. Microsoft, an American world leader in technology. So stop hating.