Mike West
United Kingdom
Guildford
Surrey
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In a MS conference today they revealed that Settlers of Catan, Carcassone and Alhambra are being made for xbox live.
These will be small downloadable games instead of full price games bought in shops.
Cool eh?
Mike..............
(And i get them free as i work for MS Games, and no, not in the division that get any money from these selling any copies!)
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Joel Glidden
United States
Highlands Ranch
Colorado
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YES! When? Link?
Tell me more!
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Nairb Attobas
United States
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
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That's interesting. I wonder if they do well enough, if they'll branch out and turn more games into downloadable XBOX-playable versions. That has potential to blow open the visibility for board games to a huge degree, especially if they catch on with video gamers.
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Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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Awesome... I hope the UNO crowd switches over.
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Dane Peacock
United States
Stansbury Park
Utah
That tickles
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Way, way cool
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Ryan Olson
United States
Topeka
Kansas
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Excellent. The board/card games have been dull so far to me.
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United States
San Diego
California
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Great...
One minute ago I couldn't care less for the Xbox 360, now I must have one 
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Mark Taraba
United States
Lake in the Hills
Illinois
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jmglidden wrote: YES! When? Link?
Tell me more!
http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/11609/Microsoft-Offers-More-Wa...
Second paragraph under Xbox Live Arcade. Not much more than was already said.
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I hope it is part of the free subscription that comes with the 360 and not the paid "Gold" subscription!!!!
Well, what would most likely happen (based on the other things that have been released) is that you can buy an Xbox 360 and then purchase this game for another $5-10 (no gold membership is needed to purchase XBLA games). This would let you play the game against the AI or "hotseat" if they put that mode in. If you wanted to play with other people online, then you would have to pay for gold membership or wait for a free weekend on a silver membership.
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Andy Hunsucker
United States
Bloomington
Indiana
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I wonder how they're going to handle the rules for games like these. Most Xbox Live Arcade games have just a few rules, or are so familiar that they aren't needed.
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Michael Waters
United States
Eden Prairie
Minnesota
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I'm almost as big a fan of XBox Live Arcade as I am of boardgames, and I never thought this would happen.
I'm excited that this will allow friends from out of town play, and even more excited that Euro-games will get some mainstream trial.
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This sounds great! I may have to renew my X-Box Live subscription.
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Mike West
United Kingdom
Guildford
Surrey
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Sorry for the no link, it literally had no more info on it.
It was mentioned at the end of a sentence by www.Eurogamer.net who were reviewing the conference but didn't even know what the games were! 
To be honest at the moment, i play Spades and Hearts more than any other xbox game. Then again, Fable 2 (shameless plug) isn't out yet! 
Mike........
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Dane Peacock
United States
Stansbury Park
Utah
That tickles
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You did Fable? You did Fable?!! What a fantastic game.
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Nick Oettinger
United States
Springfield
Virginia
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Excellent. I had been eagerly awaiting such an announcement from Microsoft regarding Settlers. I wasn't expecting that they would be including other Eurogames as well. I hope this is just the beginning of what they're planning for Eurogames on the Live Arcade.
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Mike West
United Kingdom
Guildford
Surrey
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Sky Knight X wrote: You did Fable? You did Fable?!! What a fantastic game.
Aye, i was one of the poor guys brought in at the end to shove the game out the door. I ended up rewriting the bulk of the complex quests in the game, and was in charge of all of the extra quests in The Lost Chapters.
And now i'm in charge of all of them in Fable 2.
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Rob
United States
30° 12′ 38″ N, 95° 45′ 2″ W
We are, all of us, ill-equipped to deal with a duck.
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Great, I just switched from GameCube to PS/2. Now I have to switch again?
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Matt Keyes
United States
Richardson
Texas
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i hate to be the voice of dissent, but i sure hope this doesn't cut into the sales of *actual* boardgames. If you can buy Carcassonne for $5-10, then what about the storefront trying to sell it for $20-25?
i would rather have a piece in front of me on a table than on a screen any day... don't get me wrong, this is coming from someone who probably logs on average 10-30 hours a week in late-night PC gaming. However, if there are folks available to play "live" games rather than virtual games, then i would opt for the "live" game every time.
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Ryan Schreyer
Canada
Winnipeg
Manitoba
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Gothnak wrote: In a MS conference today they revealed that Settlers of Catan, Carcassone and Alhambra are being made for xbox live.
These will be small downloadable games instead of full price games bought in shops.
Cool eh?
Mike..............
(And i get them free as i work for MS Games, and no, not in the division that get any money from these selling any copies!)
Feel free to pass this on to your PR department and Mr. Major Nelson:
This news has just solidified even more how great a platform the Xbox 360 is to me. I haven't picked one up yet but have been saving up for it (and a Wii) for a while now. News like this just makes me giddy and looking forward to getting my 360 even more now. Thank you very very much for this news!
So, when's the 360 with the cooler processor coming out again? 
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Michael Waters
United States
Eden Prairie
Minnesota
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the_grip wrote: i sure hope this doesn't cut into the sales of *actual* boardgames.
Given that boardgames are so niche (Alhambra probably sells tens of thousands of copies), and Xbox Live sells millions of subscriptions, I think the exposure can only do good.
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Ryan Schreyer
Canada
Winnipeg
Manitoba
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the_grip wrote: i hate to be the voice of dissent, but i sure hope this doesn't cut into the sales of *actual* boardgames. If you can buy Carcassonne for $5-10, then what about the storefront trying to sell it for $20-25?
I think what you might see is an increase in sales of the printed game. People might try them out on the Xbox Live free weekends, really enjoy themselves playing a game they may never have heard of before, then go out and buy the game to play with their non-Xbox Live enabled friends. It's much easier to spend $40-$60 on a game you're familiar with than one you've never played before.
I'm working on the assumption that most people realize that some things, like reading books and playing board games, can be done on line but are much better to do off-line. Ticket to Ride, Magic the Gathering, and BSW are all online versions of board and card games and I'd like to think they increase sales of the printed games rather than decrease them.
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Andy Hunsucker
United States
Bloomington
Indiana
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the_grip wrote: i hate to be the voice of dissent, but i sure hope this doesn't cut into the sales of *actual* boardgames. If you can buy Carcassonne for $5-10, then what about the storefront trying to sell it for $20-25?
i would rather have a piece in front of me on a table than on a screen any day... don't get me wrong, this is coming from someone who probably logs on average 10-30 hours a week in late-night PC gaming. However, if there are folks available to play "live" games rather than virtual games, then i would opt for the "live" game every time.
You still have to spend $300-400 on an Xbox360, and another fee for online play against real opponents, so I think the idea that these electronic versions will cut into normal boardgame sales is probably unwarranted.
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Robert Cannon
United States
Atlanta
GA
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jmglidden wrote: YES! When? Link?
Tell me more!
Here is another link from the official XBox site.
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/2006/0823-leipzigan...
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Mark Blanco
United States
Charlotte
North Carolina
Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? (James 2:15-16)
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the_grip wrote: i hate to be the voice of dissent, but i sure hope this doesn't cut into the sales of *actual* boardgames. If you can buy Carcassonne for $5-10, then what about the storefront trying to sell it for $20-25?
I'm pretty sure XBLA won't hurt sales any more than BSW does, where you can play for free. Let's face it. There's only two types of people who will purchase eurogames on LIVE. Those who already own the games, or those who probably would have never even played the game for real in the first place. (XBLA games all are required to have a free demo of the game) Either way its a win!
the_grip wrote:
i would rather have a piece in front of me on a table than on a screen any day... don't get me wrong, this is coming from someone who probably logs on average 10-30 hours a week in late-night PC gaming. However, if there are folks available to play "live" games rather than virtual games, then i would opt for the "live" game every time.
I'd rather play FtF than online any day as well, but sometimes I don't have that luxury. Playing FtF isn't practical when the people I want to play with are 3 states away. Plus, XBLA has built in VOIP and is tons more user-friendly than BSW.
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Frank Branham
United States
Norcross
Georgia
Battle Beyond Space Status: Layout Done. Currently scheduled for June 2012.
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Well I'm in. The neat trick is that they are doing three games from three different German publishing companies. But they did probably pick three of the most recent remarkably popular titles.
So somebody at Microsoft is paying attention to us.
Moo,
Frank
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Snoo Py
United States
Sunnyvale
California
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fbranham wrote:
So somebody at Microsoft is paying attention to us.
Actually, Ballmer is a regular partner of mine on BSW.
He was thinking about acquisitions, but it sounds like he went the other way. Not a great news for DOW, Hasbro & Co.
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