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riderz13371 said: Does Microsoft even have a surprise now? I'm reading everywhere that this self publishing was supposed to be it lol. Don't understand how it would have been surprising though, I expected this once they saw what Sony were doing. |
From Sidhe developer on GAF...
"A few months ago this was not being planned by them internally, and they explicitly said it wasn't going to be possible (and that was the clear message behind closed doors). There were even factions within Microsoft aware of the stupidity of the situation who were proactively looking for loopholes to effectively allow self publishing in a practical sense even if it wasn't technically the case.
This is a change in policy and strategy from earlier in the year, and the fact it isn't going to be ready at launch is evidence that this change is recent.
Great news for independent developers and publishers in any case. Looking forward to hearing more because the devil is in the details."
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=72636541&postcount=468
This is a decision taked post-E3... it is new.
