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Machiavellian on 22 May 2013
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
J_Allard said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
J_Allard said:
Thread title got my attention but it seems to be a small handful of indie devs. Gonna file this under "not an issue".


A handful is all you need on a twitter or social media feed. It presents a problem when veterans complain in any capacity. Thats their lively hood.

It's indie devs. Plenty of them complained about the 360 and yet the indie section of XBLA is still chock full of good little games.

If a handful of big name developers who make actual AAA games start complaining then I will take notice.

The reason for the stock pile of games is because when Microsoft started out they actually treated indy devs with a shred of respect. If a dev says a publisher needs a publisher that presents a huge problem for the next XBLA especially seeing as your digital files from your old XBLA will not carry over to the new one. Its dishonest and almost seemed like they lured them in. Microsoft does that a lot and its not cute, when they lure  people and then change their whole attitude towards them when they move onto another idea instead of being steadfast with all ideas.

What are you talking about.  Developers always needed a publisher in order to get games on XBLA.  If indies wanted to publish there own games they needed to do it with the indie section.  It was actually MS that gave developers this very easy way to get there games on a console and really Sony and Nintendo are following.  Actually if you look at the PS3, they are just now allowing indies to put up games on there service without a publisher.

You are confusing XBLA with the indie game section on the 360.  What I want to know is if the indie game section is going away on the xbone.  If the indie game section is not going away then there is no issue.  There is another thread where Phil stated that MS will not be separating games into different categories but instead there will just be a game section.  XBLA, indie, retail games will all be together.  With this setup, indie games will not be pushed to the side but instead sit right alog side every other game.  People will be able to find highly rated indie games just like they can any other game on the service giving indie games just as much exposure as XBLA and retail games.