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On Thursday, we are turning on a set of new features for Xbox LIVE^TM Community Games that will allow an XNA Creators Club member to change the price of their approved games. To help our creators understand how this process works, we've put together this brief walk-through. Please email creators@microsoft.com if you have any additional questions.

Changing the price of an approved game

After you have signed in to the creators club website:

1. Choose the Submit Game link from the Games menu.
2. Find the project you want to change the price on and Click View Game.
3. Scroll to the section of the page titled Currently on Xbox LIVE marketplace.
   
   At this point you should see something similar to the image below:
   
   
4. Select the new price point (200, 400 or 800) and click the Update Price button.
5. Confirm the change and the price point will be changed on Xbox LIVE Marketplace within 2 hours.

Note: If you do not see an Update Price button, then you cannot change your price at this time. A price can only be changed after 90 days have transpired at the previous price point. The date you can change your price after will be displayed (2/14/2009 in the above image).



Changing the price of an approved game during an update

If you have a game already approved but are preparing to do an update to the game (and it's more than 90 days since your last price change), you can change the price in conjunction with the game being submitted into peer review.

To do that, first complete steps 1 & 2 from above.

Now, scroll down to the Game Suggested Retail Price in the Playtest and Game Release section of the page.

1. Ensure you've updated all game related data (screenshots, descriptions, game binary etc.) that will be included in your update that is being submitted into peer review.
2. Select the new price point (200, 400 or 800).
3. Choose the Release radio button and click Submit.
4. Accept the Submission Agreement and your game will go into peer review.

Once the game has passed peer review, the new price will take effect once the updated version of the game is available on marketplace.

We hope that these changes allow all creators to have greater success on Xbox LIVE^TM Community Games!