Invites in XNA Game Studio 3.0

re: Invites in XNA Game Studio 3.0

BenS1 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:56:08 GMT

Shawn said:

"This is a great way to encourage viral distribution. Make a fun multiplayer game that supports invites, convince one person to give it a go, and they can spread it to all their friends simply by sending invites!"

I'm not quite sure how this would work. By way of example, lets imagine person A has the game and is playing it and they invite their firend, person B, to join him.

Person B doesn't have the game, so when they receive the invite what choices do they have?

Presumably they are given the choice to either accept or reject the invite? If so then surely accepting means that they have to buy a game they've probably never seen or tried before?

I can't imagine many people will buy without having tried it first?

re: Invites in XNA Game Studio 3.0

FlyingWaffle — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:48:39 GMT

If the trial version of the game supports online play, it's just a matter of A inviting B, B downloading the trial version, then A & B playing together.

re: Invites in XNA Game Studio 3.0

AZN FTW — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:20:39 GMT

FlyingWaffle said:

"If the trial version of the game supports online play, it's just a matter of A inviting B, B downloading the trial version, then A & B playing together."

I thought trial versions of community games were treated as if you had a silver XBL membership. Do trial versions allow online trial play? If not then does that mean that an online multiplayer focused game, that doesn't have a single player component won't be able to have a trial version? Or is a game required to have some form of a trial version?