Warlords Battlecry III \^_^/ a main hero character that you take along from mission to mission that can level up infinitely combined with a pile of races to choose makes it too awesome to not be in this thread. Even it's a bit of thread-necromancing on my part >.>
MS said at the beginning of 2007 that they would quit working on BC by the end of the year. I wouldn't expect anymore BC updates.b11051973
They could've bothered mentionining it on their site if they really quit though:( I know that it's probably not going to get another update, but still...:cry: At least give me the Otogis.
Or what if they'd make the BC gig open source? they might not want to put any extra programmer hours into it but if they'd let fans of the games do it then the remainder of the games would be done in no time :D ...that could actually work \O_O/
(too bad that it probably won't because of Microsoft's fear of whatever, but still, the idea rocks).
If there's anyone with more backed up news about the current status of the BC situation then I'd love to hear it though,
microsoft have already a few months ago after the last update said they arnt dedicating any real numbers of staff no more for the back wards compatability. they said the games that are left either require too much work or are games that they cant make a emulator for that would also work with other games. and because that part of the business cannot possibly make any money and they have been at it for around 2 years they are just about putting a stop to adding any more games. if any are added it will only really be because they updated a existing emulator and the game now works because of it or if they made a emulator for a original title for marketplace and it also covered unsupported games then they would add the games to the list. but the games that are left they arnt making any real effort to support them so they time has been near enough passed. its coz they dont want to have to put to work a few or many programmers trying to make a emulator run a game when the work aint going to make any money and will only resulut in probally a single game working then its not really cost effective. i think how they chose the current list are games that use similar or same engines etc and crack the games that would allow several other games to be compatitble as well to boost the list rather than worrying about games that the graphics wont work without being totally glitched or games that they can only get 1 compatible game to work with the emulator rather than a fewdjrobst
One would expect that there'd be something of a mention up on their site if that'd be the case, also that would be a pretty big letdown for the people still looking forward to playing games they have for their old XBox that aren't supported :(
Thanks for the reply and all, but I really hope you're wrong, which might be naivety on my end I guess. I'm not planning on throwing away 21 good games, and I really hope Microsoft doesn't expect me to either.
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