Not everyone shares the same opinion on the importance or impact of indie developers that you have. They must be mindless simpletons akin to religious zealots defending the hive. You are spewing more vitriol than anyone here is to indie games. I mean, has anyone been wrong in saying a vast majority of indie games are trash? Someone said things about arrogant indie developers and prima donas or whatever, ok, those might be a little much towards some of them. Not Lorne Lanning though.
I never said self publishing would require MS to accept every game. But to deny it would result in a lot more crap being released is sheer nonsense. And sorry but yes, it is entirely relevant to the discussion. Again, I prefer my marketplace not be flooded with crap. You know what helps that? Games needing a publishing partner. Sometimes publishers will miss on a gem, it happens in all walks of life. Russell Wilson slipped to the 3rd round of last years NFL draft IIRC. But most of the time they get it right, and a shitty indie title will have a hard time getting a publishing partner on XBLA. And I am talking indie shitty, not typical game shitty. With indies it goes to a whole new level.
MS didn't "refuse the game for XBLA", they declined to publish it. The developer could have gotten someone else to publish it. You can rake MS over the coals for that, I would just point out they have released tons of games published as 1st party XBLA titles since then. Every company is going to lose out on games via policy. No one makes a policy list that gets them every single game that would benefit the platform. Waste of time debating this though, toodles.
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