We are looking for a passionate Games Producer to help implement our first generation games that will run in this new environment.
I dunno if this has been posted in this topic, but the next-gen story notes that the job entry is posted on GamesOnDeck.
Gamesondeck is a publication devoted to the mobile (cell phone) games business. MS has been developing Live for mobile phones for over a year, now. They even showed it off at their E3 keynote. So... this job hiring likely relates to that, not anything more exciting.
A Gaffer has said
It's been ages since Live for mobiles has been discussed... probably due to a lack of caring by nearly eveyone
darn here I was hoping they'd finally come to their senses and were going to make the service free.
They have 10 million paying customers, any reason they would want to give up that revenue stream? I'd rather it were free myself, but the way you 'said come to their senses' suggests that MS is insane for making $40million a year off of the service.
You mean $400 million.
As long as you're willing to pay, and people are buying XB360s over consoles with free services, that shows Live! is deemed fair value and MS can rake in the profits. If it doesn't impact market-share, why would a company choose to change the way do things? It's not like all the people using Live! have decided it's not worth the money and cancelled their subscription...They are the only ones that are charging for something everyone else has for free. For many people like me that love gaming online and grudgingly pay for Gold this hangs over our heads. Them making it free would sure go a long way towards customer satisfaction.
They are the only ones that are charging for something everyone else has for free. For many people like me that love gaming online and grudgingly pay for Gold this hangs over our heads. Them making it free would sure go a long way towards customer satisfaction.