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Figgycal said:
Mad55 said:
Turkish said:
Mad55 said:
Lol how did they treat him and other indies like shit?


The parity they force on everybody? If my game came out on PS4 first and later I decide to port it to xbone, they will not be accepting it on their system, its surreal.

The devs knew that before they started developing on the specific console though. 

If you don't know Microsoft's past treatment of indie devs and want to know, just google it.





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Nsanity said:
If they did and still are treating Indies like shit, then why do Indies keep releasing games on Microsoft systems?

I know right, they should just refuse to release their product to half of the console market and cut their game sales in half.



DirtyP2002 said:
another reason to hate on indies is this jerk.

Proud leader of the anti-indie-movement!


You're missing out then. I heard Minecraft is awesome. 



He's such a twat, didn't bitch when you put your game on 360 exclusively did you?

From the Xbox days I didn't hear anyone bitching about MS, quite the opposite. In fact this 'MS treats indies like shit' has only reared its head over the last year, = propaganda.



 

DirtyP2002 said:
another reason to hate on indies is this jerk.

Proud leader of the anti-indie-movement!

the sad thing is, that with you there always is a chance that you are not joking when making a statement like this *sigh* -_-



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Nsanity said:
Figgycal said:
Mad55 said:
Turkish said:
Mad55 said:
Lol how did they treat him and other indies like shit?


The parity they force on everybody? If my game came out on PS4 first and later I decide to port it to xbone, they will not be accepting it on their system, its surreal.

The devs knew that before they started developing on the specific console though. 

If you don't know Microsoft's past treatment of indie devs and want to know, just google it.



He's a big boy who's old enough to find things out all by himself. If he's curious - he can look it up himself.



ethomaz said:
RenCutypoison said:

To be fair, Jonathan Blow is probably the worst dev to work with. The guy can't code. Imagine having him call you 10 times a day to ask how to do x or y with your api, I would seriously kill the guy.

I agree but I loved his first game and the second looks really impressive... maybe it just needs to pay somebody else to code to him... he seems to works better on game design part.


Braid was really good, but seriously, western indies can't optimize a game correctly, especially him. You can't do everything by yourself, and he needs to recognize that.



this guy just hates ms, pure and simple.
it's been a never-ending rant with this guy.
he's just making indie devs look bad by acting very unprofessional.



Sums up what a lot of people think about Microsoft. They just aren't a very good company to the smaller developers. Doesn't really matter, as they are very successful at what they do.



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Go cry somewhere else little Blow.