N+ Interview: MS hates User-generated content?

3 March 2008 No Comment

Filed under: News, Interviews, Xbox Live Arcade

Having recently hit the tubes to critical and consumer praise, it seems that the side-scrolling ninja platformer N+ isn’t even all the game that it was originally intended to be. In an article over at MTV’s Multiplayer blog, N+’s developers go in depth on the game’s history concerning the plans for inclusion of an open download/upload space for level sharing (similar to Halo 3′s system, which makes one wonder why that was a-okay). In fact, that very feature was implemented in the version of the game that was released onto PartnerNet for testing. However, in the game’s last final months of development Microsoft shut the feature down, demanding that it be stripped back to the condition it’s in this day (with the capability to share user-generated content only available from the folks on your friends list.) With games being handicapped or delayed due to Microsoft’s draconian ideas about sharing things, what is the future for the content of XBLM?