Microsoft Brushes Away Indie Devs For Xbox One Like Peasants

[Mr. Somebody]

What does that mean? To get an opportunity to publish a digital game on an Xbox platform, you must publish retail titles. I had thought that this was one-to-one -- meaning for each retail title a publisher releases, it can also release one Xbox Live game. But I recently spoke to someone who worked at a publisher with a two-to-one ratio.

"Two digital games for each retail release?" I asked. Nope. It worked the other way around: Two retail games released meant the publisher got one digital download slot. And someone from another publisher told me that to even be allowed to publish games on Xbox 360 in the first place, the company had to slate three retail games up front. - Its so demonic, friends.

 

[PS5 Pro]

Ps4 is subconsciously

 

[Heretic]

And?

 

[Mr. Somebody]

And?

Means there will be less indie dev games on xbox.

 

[Heretic]

Means there will be less indie dev games on xbox.

Do you mean indie games as opposed to xbla games? If you mean xbla games like shadow complex mark of the ninja and stuff like that then that could suck, but those indie games that were like 80 to 100 pts I couldn't care less about.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Do you mean indie games as opposed to xbla games? If you mean xbla games like shadow complex mark of the ninja and stuff like that then that could suck, but those indie games that were like 80 to 100 pts I couldn't care less about.

Less games is good for you, but not for me. Enjoy your entertainment console. I need a gaming console.

 

[blockburna420]

Indie we talking bout indie games
Shesh guess yall fan boys aint got shyt else to talk about

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Indie we talking bout indie games
Shesh guess yall fan boys aint got shyt else to talk about

Do you smoke drugs?

 

[blockburna420]

Do you smoke drugs?

No. do you praise a false idol?

 

[Mr. Somebody]

do you praise a false idol?

No. Do you smoke drugs?

 

[blockburna420]

No. Do you smoke drugs?

no

 

[Mr. Somebody]

no

Please change your drug promoting avatar. Its very disgusting. There are children on this forum, friend.

 

[PS5 Pro]

Do you smoke drugs?

I was gonna ask you the same question. First off, I upped this pathetic thread just so you could squirm so real gamers can see how deprived gamers act. You see young clownshoes, the Xbox has about 1 to 5,000 more indie dev titles than PS3 /wii combined. They usually suck, and really bad. It's cool for cell phones, but is annoying waste of time on consoles. On PS3 you got like 5 indie titles if that, and you believe the indie market is this place where awesome games are always popping up when its not like that. You'd know that if a PS3 wasn't your console of choice. That's why your asking for it Developers feel for the people who are not established so they are united when they say "support indie devs" even though we all know most of it is rubbish. Hopefully Sony can actually have indie games so you can cry about something else Xbox did first/better

 

[Mr. Somebody]

I was gonna ask you the same question. First off, I upped this pathetic thread just so you could squirm so real gamers can see how deprived gamers act. You see young clownshoes, the Xbox has about 1 to 5,000 more indie dev titles than PS3 /wii combined. They usually suck, and really bad. It's cool for cell phones, but is annoying waste of time on consoles. On PS3 you got like 5 indie titles if that, and you believe the indie market is this place where awesome games are always popping up when its not like that. You'd know that if a PS3 wasn't your console of choice. That's why your asking for it Developers feel for the people who are not established so they are united when they say "support indie devs" even though we all know most of it is rubbish. Hopefully Sony can actually have indie games so you can cry about something else Xbox did first/better

omg your post made me uncomfortable like im squirming like i have an octopus in my pant leg. That was last gen. This gen they said forget the devs. Its sad to me, so i thought it would be sad to you, friend.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Microsoft created the idea of indies on consoles. I think they will continue to support indies, and their idea of placing indie games right next to the Call of duties on the dashboard is always glossed over in these "Microsoft doesn't care about indies" stories.

Self publishing is nice but I'm not sure it's the big issue you guys are making it out to be. Quality games will get publishers, Microsoft will publish a bunch of indie games. What won't happen is the Xbox One App Store being filled with with a bunch of shovelwear and usless apps like other app stores.