Microsoft vs Valve - On Treatment of Indie Devs

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Mr Puggsly said:

shio said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Fought hard? We don't know what they actually did. Made a few calls?

Its not like Team Meat had to take them to court.

I'm more willing to assume it's true than not, because Team Meat definitely aren't the first indie developers to criticise Microsoft.

Big deal.

Team Meat hasn't exactly proven themselves and MS doesn't need them. So don't expect MS to cater to them. That's the way things go sometimes.

They should just be happy MS has helped them financially.

So what your saying is MS should say "F*ck all indie devs" because they don't need them even though they promise a ton of stuff with the XNA project?

When a developer purchases the XNA they have a contractual agreement with Microsoft that if they are chosen to be on XBLA they will get advertising and other benefits. Since many developers have had issues with this it proves that Microsoft can't even do business legally without actually having to get into fights with the developers over agreed benefits granted by Microsoft.