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Indie devs dislike Xbox dashboard updateDela @ Dec 10, 2011 15:18 | 5 comments
Representatives of the Xbox Live Indie Games community, told Eurogamer that the update shifts focus away from games considerably, and that it's even worse for Indie games.
"Microsoft take a back-seat approach and only really gets involved to take a cut of your sales and make the games slightly harder to find with each new dashboard update," said Brett Eveleigh, developer of Avatar Battle Bees.
"Not that anyone wants to go through the pain of retail/arcade style certification but it feels like Microsoft has abandoned the platform in favour of Windows Phone 7. But instead of admitting it they're brushing it under the carpet and hoping it'll go away."
There is currently an Indie Games tile on the mew Dashboard, but there are fears that this will phase out in time. Also, Indie games are not listed under New Arrivals or Genre tabs.
"For better or worse, the new Metro layout is an advertiser's dream," said Mommy's Best Games founder Nathan Fouts. "Every single main page now has an advertisement on it (you can't scroll away any more), there are dozens of secret little places to feature things, and it's easy to get lost."
"But simply getting to the main portal for Arcade, Games on Demand or Indie Games, or for that matter my own game library is a chore. I like the 'quick list' but if it would have a simple connection to my complete library, it would be a huge help." |
Indie devs concerned about new Metro-styled Xbox dashboard.
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Comment by: Mysttic (Dec 10, 2011 15:37) And that is the reason my 360 will not see the dash update; screw that, I'll play offline and never use XBL again. |
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Comment by: Anonymous User (Dec 10, 2011 15:57) first post*
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Comment by: Bozobub (Dec 10, 2011 17:34) I really don't see why this would be any surprise. Remember how strongly M$ tried to cram Vista down everyone's throat? They're far more concerned with pushing the new Metro interface than silly crap, such as what users actually WANT. |
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Comment by: scorpNZ (Dec 10, 2011 18:28) Microsoft is your friend :p
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Comment by: WierdName (Dec 10, 2011 21:05) Well that's really *n great... I hadn't even noticed. I haven't even finished my project and they're already trying to push the indie stuff even further back. If they're pulling 30% of sales they need to push the titles forward. They keep up this BS and Sony's new thing might push them from the head of the console indie market. Hope Sony goes with C#...
Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
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