| Goatseye said: Thank you. I agree with you there. I only became aware of this in 2014. I noticed that a lot of MS published Arcade games are released on Steam by the devs themselves, thus everybody saying "most of Xbox games are on Steam". Meanwhile, indies/arcade titles not published by MS, were not allowed to be published outside of the designated platforms by publishers that "forced" devs to relinquish the ownership of their IPs. I agree with Indie devs on that. |
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In the case of Microsoft, (I'm not sure about Sony, as the PS4's full roster of Indies is uncertain, so I don't know if any SDPs are on the horizon,) this bizzare floodgate approach might be a bit of a rebound response. They had policies that were becoming so unpopular and toxic to the indie community, they wanted to go out of their way to say 'Look! Look! We're friendly now!' Only they want to be seen as indie-friendly so much, for the moment at least they're not even being enough of a 'bad guy' to tell someone trying to sign up, 'Er, look. ...your game is crap. Like. Seriously. Soda?' They might bounce back in awhile, find a more reasonable balance.
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