Microsoft not paying their Indie devs???

[DonFerrari]

Hiku said:

LinkTheHuman said:

Hiku said:

  

What are you talking about? The indie devs didn't get paid for their share of the game sales. Doesn't matter if the games are exclusive or not. When MS sells their games on their system, the devs also need to get a share of the sale. Otherwise, they're giving away their games for free to MS. And only MS makes a profit. No dev on the planet would agree to a deal like that. So there would never be any non exclusive games on Xbox.

I was reffering to a deal in which indie devs would be paid for exclusivety (this is rare but theoretically possible). And I never said that Indie devs shoudn't get any revenue of software sales. I was instead stating that if an indie dev produces software for all three systems they shouldn't be given money from microsfot as so that they stay alive. why do i bring up giving money to multi platform indie devs? Because it's what playstation is doing, and it's not healthy for a market to lose money giving it to diying devs.  

I see now that i didn't make it clear what tranzitions of money were being made for what purposes and buisness choices were being made by xy companies, my apoligies if that was unclear. 

Well, I guess "being unclear" is a bit of an understatement. You didn't even mention that you were not going to talk about the topic at hand.

You started off by saying "I have two conflicting opinions about this."
"This" would imply the topic at hand (Being paid for game sales) to anyone reading your post.

Then you went on to use pretty much the exact same term as was used in the topic title and opening post with: "they shouldn't get paid" without diffirentiating it from the topic at hand in any way. People reading your post would come to the conclusion that you are talking about the topic at hand, and yet clearly, you're talking about something else.
That's why I asked "What are you talking about" (And Don Ferrari did as well.)
It's not that I didn't understand what you were talking about. I did. It's more of why you're talking about it, the way you did. Perhaps I should have written "Why are you talking about that?"

The way you wrote your post it just honestly looked like you didn't read the article properly and assumed this was about payment for something else. Namely the thing Sony are doing that you mentioned later on. I don't mean to be mean or anything. You seem polite and intelligent. It's just hard to imagine you didn't notice the way you wrote your post.

I think you nailed it on he just posting what he wanted without reading op and other people posts and just jumping to defend ms and when you answered and he saw the mistake he didn't want to own it up. And his 2 conflicting opinions don't conflit, they basically the same if the game is exclusives the holder should pay, if not they don't.