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ethomaz on 24 July 2013
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Adinnieken said:

I'm sorry, but you are wrong.  Your insistance that this is a 180 in policy is incorrect, it isn't.

Microsoft has been consistent.  If you read the article I linked to, you would have seen that.  The Apps store is not the same as the Games store or retail.  There is a physical limitation on the size of the games available in the Apps store, and the purpose of having indies self-publish through the Apps store is so they can publish on Windows 8 as well.  Which I'm pretty sure has been posted here on VGChartz.

What Microsoft HAS reverse, as noted in the Kotaku article, are the Xbox 360 policies that they were planning on carrying forward regarding certification.

Their plans for indie publishing haven't changed.

As to the Xbox One DevKit, the only thing I can comment on is the fact that this is consistent with the Xbox LIVE Indie Games and XNA Games Development.  As with the Xbox 360, any Xbox 360 could be turned into an Xbox LIVE Indie Game development box.

This is getting in circle.

Sidhe Interactive:

"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

The self publishing policies for indies games is ALL NEW! A 180 turn around... until yesterday no indie was allowed to do that.

Well in fact the self publishing feature won't be ready for Xbone launch... so until they implement this feature in 2014 the indies will use the actual process where you need a big publisher to make your game into Xbone.

So my NOW is wrong because the policies WILL ONLY CHANGE some time after Xbone launch.