Oh I was not making a point. I was just shared a fun fact about the history of XBLIG. Most likely, this kind of situations are addressed manually, and the way they get “fixed” depend on the IT support guy that got the ticket.

Ah ok, gotcha. 🙂

I just see this sentiment come up a little too often. It’s like adult bookstores… can’t sell the stuff in any mainstream shops, can’t even go to the niche shops because the religious folks (typically) run them out of town. My state (Alabama) even has a law against buying through the mail ffs.

No shelves to put stuff on (digital or physical) = no market.

It really wasn’t the softcore titilation that got it pulled. Even though after the “break one out” scandal Xblig rules were tightened to have a “no actual nudity rule” this title wasn’t in danger any more than the hundreds of others similar to it. The problem was the game ended up broken and in an unplayable state.

That corrupt game state existed before it was pulled.

I do agree that games need to be allowed to grow up and there does need to be a less prudish attitude however part of it is public awareness that the ratings are there for a reason. We’re still stook in an age where Fox News can decry a game with an 18 rating for “corrupting our children” though it does seem to be breaking at last.

MS’s neglect of XBLIG is because the XNA creators club is due to close soon anyway, these are the last days of XBLIG pretty much unless they pull something out soon.

Uh..what market? DLsite? Last I checked, we’re still stuck with an industry of stingy prudes peeking over our shoulder making sure we’re not having ‘that’ kind of fun with our games. Steam, Desura, even “open” mobile platforms are no better. Adult games will always be stuck in a ghetto as long as this attitude of ‘go elsewhere with your filth!’ prevails.

I mean, yeah, XBLIG is Microsoft’s turf and they can do as they please with it; but I find it discouraging that softcore (at worst) level titillation can still get a game pulled.

To be clear, I’m also no fan of lazily made games that use bad pinup art and outright deception to trick people out of their money. Anything can be done well (even T&A games); but MS’ consistent neglect of XBLIG doesn’t tend to favor devs that actually give a shit anyways.

Neither was I which is what I find very strange. However a guy did mention the issue before the game was removed, I did have a working copy of the game as of last Saturday but by Wednesday with the game still on the marketplace I had a corrupt version. I was prompted to update but that was an Xbox system update not an update specifically for the game itself. So it’s possible the game was broken already so much so a single update to the system finished it off.

http://forums.xbox.com/xbox_forums/xbox_live_indie_games/f/2514/t/1727254.aspx
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I was never prompted to update the game, and it *always* prompts you to update XBLIGs. I also know that it was being reported by MVPs to Microsoft for its flagrant violations of the evil checklist.

Should say I know the reason behind the game being pulled.

1) As of Last Tuesday (April 1st oddly) an update was released for Banana Bananza which made the game unplayable.

2) I bugged the hell out of Microsoft when I found out it was broke (when I went to get a picture of the gameplay itself). I seriously was an annoying pest. I initially tweeted at them then posted in two support forums of theirs about it. The simple reason was the game was not playable and being sold.

That error screen you’re seeing is not because the game was removed that is what happened to the game after a recent update to it. I have to think if I hadn’t pestered Microsoft and essentially posted the review on Destructoid with the line “This is a Scam, Microsoft are taking money from the sale of a broken game and scamming consumers” then honestly I wonder if the game would still be up now.