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Goatseye on 04 May 2015
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sundin13 said:
Goatseye said:

What intelligent process would you recommend to evaluate softwares that are constantly changing during the development process? Hell, even during the certification.

MS is just one entity with limited human resources to cover all the supervision to be made, in order to assure softwares in an optimal condition in the Marketplace.

It's shitty for us as well to have a situation similar to Steam and sift through all the sh*tware to find a gem.


The process of someone playing the game and saying "this runs at 4fps, is comprised solely of stock unity assets and consists of one level which I will fall through if i rub up against any wall. I don't think it is ready to release".

Also, how much money does MS make every year on Gold Memberships? How much does Valve make off of all the bullshit that they let on their storefront? I think they can afford a small team to do a quick check to make sure the games are deserving of a place in the store.

I don't think that consoles are really in need of this yet for the reasons I stated earlier, but Steam is in dire need of it. Their Greenlight system and Early Access system have MAJOR flaws and as you said, their current solution (aka, doing bugger all) is bad for consumers and developers alike.

Well, they have to satisfy gamers by giving them couple of "free" games monthly and by doing that they have to compensate devs/pubs.

They have to maintain servers for online gaming and modern competitive games require robust network infrastructure (Killer Instinct is the game with the best netcode I've seen so far this gen).

It "welps" them during software droughts to offset losses and they wouldn't want to dig into that honeypot. Investors wouldn't want that.

Why would they cut into their revenue, if they can arrange a solution where pubs and devs could work out a deal and the three parts come out favored? That's in a perfect world. MS does that but other publishers reportedly are too greedy to let devs get a significant cut.