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As a reminder, any Creators who have not yet updated their game(s) to the new pricing structure, will experience an automatic price change on October 22, 2009. Below is a refresher on the price changes:

Indie Games will have three price points to choose from, to keep them more in-line with other products available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Games can be sold at 80, 240, or 400 Microsoft Points. Only games 50 MB and under can be priced at 80 Microsoft Points. How does this affect currently priced games?

• Games currently at 400 Points: Will retain current price point, but have the option to change to one of the new price points during an update or price change event.
• Games currently at 800 Points: Can remain at 800 points for the life of the game unless an update needs to be submitted, at which time one of the new price points will need to be chosen. The option to price your game at 800 Microsoft Points will remain until October 22, 2009.
• Games currently at 200 Points: Will remain at 200 points until October 22, 2009. At that point, XNA will automatically change these games to 80 Microsoft Points. For price changes, game updates, and new games the 200 price point is no longer available.
• Only Games less than 50MB are eligible to be sold at 80 points.
• Between now and October 22, 2009 a game can be updated as often as the user wants just like they can today (excluding the seven day submission jail)
• As ever, price changes to a game can only be made every 90 days.

Any questions about the new price structure should be asked on our forums.