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sales2099 on 19 July 2013

This indie X1 bad rep kinda strikes me as silly.....XBLA and Xbox Indie set the bar for this gen. In terms of quality and sheer quantity.

It ain't like MS never had them on their side, they always did. And now they will keep it strong, that is the luxury of not being released yet, that you can tweak your policies.



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the2real4mafol on 19 July 2013

We'll see



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NightDragon83 on 19 July 2013

Oh joy... now we can get bombarded even more with endless Minecraft clones, classic 8 and 16 bit ripoffs, and free Flash games that should've stayed that way.



On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.

NightDragon83 on 19 July 2013
sales2099 said:
This indie X1 bad rep kinda strikes me as silly.....XBLA and Xbox Indie set the bar for this gen. In terms of quality and sheer quantity.

It ain't like MS never had them on their side, they always did. And now they will keep it strong, that is the luxury of not being released yet, that you can tweak your policies.

But don't you get it... M$ never does anything right and Sony never does anything wrong!



On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.

Nsanity on 19 July 2013
theprof00 said:
The OP makes it seem like this was all a plan all along.
This is more like "look how we completely reversed policy again".
Wise decision to approach it this way MS.

I'm not the author, so try harder.



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theprof00 on 19 July 2013
Nsanity said:
theprof00 said:
The OP makes it seem like this was all a plan all along.
This is more like "look how we completely reversed policy again".
Wise decision to approach it this way MS.

I'm not the author, so try harder.

OP doesn't stand for Original poster but original post.

Keep being defensive, it's extremely attractive on a grown man.



radiantshadow92 on 19 July 2013

they forgot bout them and are like shit we need them bak lol



gooch_destroyer on 19 July 2013

Interesting....I'm still doubtful.



ethomaz on 19 July 2013

MS did a lot for indies devs with 360 but I tried to explain in another topic what changed to they get all the hate now.

"In fact this was similar for 360, PS3 and Wii... after Wii U the things started to change with Wii U and PS3 doing a better relationship with indies and 360 staing fixed to the roots... PS4 elevate to a new level and Xbone continue the same with like 360... now MS started to change the things on 360 and soon on Xbone.

It is like the Indies saw the better option on PS3, Wii U and PS4 and started a blame the MS conservatism."

The biggest complain of the Indie comunity are:

- You require a big publisher
- You have a extensive process aprovall for months
- You pay for the patchs and bug fix * MS changed on 360 that two month ago *
- You are not receiving devkits from MS (even if you want to buy one)
- You don't  have a open windows to talk with MS

What MS did for the indies in the life of 360 is not enogh for the nextgen... Indie devs are blaming MS for not evolute thei policies like Sony and Nintendo did.



ethomaz on 19 July 2013
ClassicGamingWizzz said:
i just hope microsoft strategy to make indies happy is not shoving up theirs ass+s tons of money for them to release exclusively on xbox

That's works pretty well too it is a strategy after all... shut up your "enemies" with money.