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I've spent quite a lot of today hounding innocent, hard-working independent developers for their thoughts on last night's Xbox One indie policy change. Those who've responded include Digital Extremes, creator of The Darkness 2, Star Trek: The Videogame and most recently Warframe, a free-to-play squad shooter for PC, PS4 and... Xbox One? Well, it's certainly not outside the bounds of probability.

"We would love to see Warframe on Xbox One, the ball is in Microsoft's court with regards to allowing titles on their system that come from an independent developer and not an established publisher," the company's vice-president of publishing Meridith Braun told OXM last week.

That's a wish that appears to have been granted, pending specifics, so I asked Meridith for an update. Here it is.

"We're happy to see Microsoft shift its attitude on independent development for their new system. We'd be silly not to consider Warframe for Xbox One now. The system itself will be awesome and now the landscape of games that it supports has just become limitless. Exciting times."

http://www.oxm.co.uk/59045/xbox-one-will-be-awesome-says-warframe-studio-wed-be-silly-not-to-consider-releasing-for-it/

Nice. X1 should get this eventually

Waiting for the inevitable question, does he like the DS4 or Xbox One controller better?

Nice, definitely will be coming to the Xbox one now.

Hopefully Microsoft's plans end up being what they are advertizing them as. If it turns out to just be Win8 apps and the like, this could be worse PR than just keeping quit.

and what would be the issue if it's win 8 kernel running ???? every game on PC run on a win kernel..... it would even make more sense for devs since it would mean they could release on XB, PC and WP quiet easily, as long as they have access to the full hardware resource I don't see the issue there ???

Because they wouldn't have access to the full hardware resources.

Anyway if it is just Win8 apps it still would be pretty great for indie devs, it's just not the feature many of us are expecting/wanting/hoping for.

Can you elaborate?  I'm not sure why stuff is missing.  Write it for Windows, simple port to X1, polish with specific resources/functions/hardware, distribute then Profit!

Obviously you have to change to use a controller and add some ruble, trigger feedback, menu system, stuff like that.  But if the rest is the same, sounds like a nice platform for developers.

What do you say is missing?

The first thing I notice coming into this thread was how many Master Chief avatar / sig was here lol.

... And comparing this thread (positive Xbox One commentary) with the Kinect Sports Rival cancellation thread just illustrate how many sharks are in this forum because they smell blood in the water.

OT: Promising to hear this, I look forward to more news regarding their indie policy at gc.