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Microsoft Will Allow Indie Self-publishing, Debugging On Retail Xbox One
tlhIngan writes "Microsoft was the last platform manufacturer to require that all games go through publishers, a much hated policy. Indeed, their approval process was one of the harshest around. But now Microsoft will allow indie developers to self publish, and allow retail Xbox One units to serve as developer consoles. Previously, self-publishing developers were relegated to the 'Xbox Live Indie Arcade' section, as well as developer consoles often costing upwards of $10,000 with special requirements and NDAs. This puts Microsoft's Xbox One more in line with Apple's App Store, including Microsoft's new promise of a 14-day turnaround for approvals. Microsoft's retail debug console system is to work similarly to Apple's — that is, to run pre-release code, the individual consoles used have to be registered with Microsoft."
This is the sort of entitlist mentality that shows how out of touch some people in this community are. An announcement like this is great thing for geeks, tinkerers and developers, but the posts that are already rolling in on this story show that people here are more concerned with playing devil's advocate, conspiracy theories, fanboyism and anti-everything than they are with technology.
There's no conspiracy theory. Microsoft thinks that for the privilege of owning one of their devices, they are entitled to access to all of my data, and they are free to forward it to the NSA in exchange for cash (which is happening right now). As a plus, I am not allowed to disconnect the device from the internet, turn off the camera, or buy/sell used games, lend them to a friend, or any of the other very common practices most gamers have with their existing consoles.
Placing one of these Orwell's Nightmare devices in your living room is lunacy.