You can still access your old games, but any attempt to access shop content displays the dreaded words ‘this item is no longer available to purchase.’
, and yet the news has lodged in our throats and choked the sobs from reaching our lips. The mourners are already starting to line up, droppingat the feet of the grave of what was Xbox’s landmark digital marketplace. It wasn’t just a shop for big-budget titles. It gave prominence to indie developers better than any console had before.
At around noon ET July 29, Xbox users started receiving an error message once they tried accessing games through the Xbox Live store. It reads: “This item is no longer available to purchase in this store. Content may still be available for purchase in the Microsoft Store on newer consoles, PC, or online at Xbox.com.”There were still some quality games to purchase in the shop before its departure from this mortal coil.
The Xbox 360 shop shouldn’t be remembered as just another digital storefront. Xbox Live Arcade and Steam on PC were instrumental in creating a boom of indie developers trying to reach a mass audience. In the early 2010s, we were bombarded with indie games that are now classics, such asThere was a dark side to the prominence of Xbox Live Arcade. The Xbox 360 era, AKA the seventh console generation, brought about the advent of restrictive marketplaces.
But at the very least, Xbox 360’s storefront paved the way for a world where publishers didn’t necessarily have a total stranglehold on distribution.Epic is planning to deploy Fortnite and more on third party app marketplace AltStore, but it's also removing it from Samsung Galaxy phones.
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