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MS To Indie Devs: You Have a To Have a Publisher
Loadmaster writes "The new Oddworld game New 'n' Tasty is coming to every platform in the current generation and even the next generation but not the Xbox One. It's not that developer Oddworld Inhabitants isn't porting the game. It's not that they hate Microsoft or the Xbox One. No, it's that Microsoft has taken an anti-indie dev stance with the Xbox One. While the game industry is moving to Kickstarter and self-funded shops, Microsoft has decided all developers must have a publisher to grace their console."
Might as well be a total asshole.
"Developers creating work-for-hire for official publishing channels! Developers creating work-for-hire for official publishing channels! Developers creating work-for-hire for official publishing channels!"
I am not a crackpot.
DeVelOpERs! deveLOpErS! dEVLopeRS! deVelo....
Oh sorry, not for you guys.
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BMO
Or they are simply acting sanely.
AJ Henderson
If this were Reddit, I'd be asking for AWildSketchAppears to draw a plane crashing and burning into a train wreck because the pilot shot out the tires while simultaneously trying to insert his head up his own ass.
This seriously cannot get any worse. Can it?
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This, I think summarize it.
From the look of it, they're trying to make the Xbox One as "big publisher" friendly as possible..... basically doing the stuff of wet dreams of EA, Ubisoft, and all those other big names.
Unfortunately they forgot that they have to sell some consoles too, else it won't do much.
m$ have signalled what is unfortunately the end of gaming & our rights
If only there were an open platform with standardized, interchangeable hardware existing in a highly competitive ecosystem, your choice of operating system, and the ability to choose where you get your games and whether to participate in an online community.
Someone should make one of those.
Microsoft is a sinking ship, there is no salvage.
You mean like SCO ... oh Wait.
The sooner the better. Hopefully a Wii U-boat will take care of the lifeboats.
Sorry, it was bugging me that such a perfect opportunity went to waste. :P
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
Now what are you hoping to achieve, introducing facts on /. in the middle of a flame fest?
xbone
Ha, nice. Like a skull and cross-bones. Sums up this system well.
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Microsoft is a sinking ship, there is no salvage.
So Ballmer's just going to rearrange the deck chairs?