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Aprisaiden on 11 January 2012
donsterydo2 said:

People don't spread bullshit. So Joe Danger didn't come to XBLA ?

Microsoft don't want to be a publisher of a game that is published first by Sony. But the game developer can publish the game with a third party publisher like EA, THQ etc. That's all.

 

On XBLA Microsoft acts as a publisher only for games that are exclusive or timed exclusive for XBLA. For example - Sine Mora, was multiplatform but when the developer decided that Microsoft will be a publisher for the game, the PSS one was canned and Sine More will be at least timed exclusive for XBLA like LIMBO, Castle Crasher etc.

 

SW developers are just stupid that they don't understand it after 6 years of X360 on the market.

Microsoft has to greenlight every XBLA release and they reserve the right to refuse to allow games released first on other platforms to be published. Now that is bad for the industry, though it generally makes sense (and the implementation of this policy was generally to counter SONY's "Pub Fund" policy where SONY helped fund development for indie PSN titles provided that the game was released on PSN first)



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donsterydo2 on 11 January 2012

Mother of God... But they didn't refuse !!!!!!! They just don't want to be a publisher. What is so hard to understand ? Yeah, I know Microsoft = Devil



Xenostar on 11 January 2012
donsterydo2 said:
Mother of God... But they didn't refuse !!!!!!! They just don't want to be a publisher. What is so hard to understand ? Yeah, I know Microsoft = Devil


Its the fact MS dont allow self publishing, so if MS wont let it on then they have to go off and find a 3rd party publisher to push it through, fucking nightmare for them. Especially when there is clearly a demand from 360 fans to get it on there. 



madman25 on 12 January 2012

Pretty sure this great game will appear on XBLA at some stage this year...
It would have been great if EA supported & marketed Strangers Wrath on it's original release instead of putting it in a bucket and taking a dump on it...We would have had more original Oddworld games had it been the big hit it deserved to be...



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