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User-made Content Part of Xbox Live 2.0?
The first details of the Xbox Live 2.0 service were revealed at the Game Developer's Conference by Microsoft VP J. Allard. Now GamesIndustry.biz has a discussion on the possibility that end user made content may be a part of the micropayment economy mentioned in the keynote. From the article: "...allowing players to create and trade their own in-game items, although presumably the game would have to provide some creative tools for this to be possible in the first place, so we wouldn't expect it to be a feature of every title."
Sounds very interesting and possibly addicting. Small sums of money can add up very quickly, especially when you think to yourself, oh hey that's cool and it's only 2$!!! And that is cool too... and that... and that...
But then again will we be looking at this as the retail computer view? Cheaper games that are missing modules? Sure we lose some on the computer (game), but we make it up on the accessories (in-game micro content.)
I wonder how long it will be until you don't even need to buy the game, you just pick the game type module (RTS-FPS-RPG-Ect), download some character modules (Oh hey I want to be a paladin, I'll get him for 2$), buy a story module, bam.
..is keeping gamemakers from doing the same thing already with current xbox live?
as such, it's just hyping up possibilities.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Think of it this way: How fun would it be to play PC mods if they were ALL made by the developer themselves? How many 'good' maps/mods/skins do you normally see developers releases to the public AFTER the game has been released? (Don't say Counter-Strike or Day of Defeat either they're player-made.) Remember people Xbox Live (2.0) is for the Xbox2/Xenon/Xbox360 and probably will be locked out by PC gamers. Chances are individual mods won't be allowed to create their own content and then play it on their (non-modded) Xbox2s.