XBL Indie devs can control release dates
Microsoft has altered its policy on Indie Games releases for the Xbox 360, letting developers set their own release dates for titles now.
Developers on the Xbox 360 Indie Games Channel can now control their own release dates, reports Giant Bomb. Before this week's update, game developers submitted to the peer review for approval, after which it would go live. Now developers can halt a game once it's ready to go live, to allow time to drum up support.
While good news for developers, Microsoft didn't tell the indie community about this impending change until it was active. One developer, Jason Wishnov, just launched a RPG-rhythm game hybrid called Sequence only four days before the new feature became available. "I had a hell of a time coordinating a traditional marketing blitz when I was literally unable to tell when my game would be available to the public," he said. "The XBLIG team isn't exactly great at keeping us informed of pending developments."
The lack of structure impacted the indie games late last year, when developers tried to band together for the Winter Uprising. The games were loosely set to come out sometime in December, without formal dates. "We basically had this 'the games will most likely come out in winter' approach," said James Silva of Dishwasher fame. "If we could get all of the games approved and then publish them on a well-publicized official schedule, it would look tons better."
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I am quite angry at this moment , i can't believe what a monstrosity this service microcrap is, i can't belive that INDIE games would EVEN TRY TO SELL THINGS ON A SYSTEM LIKE THIS ??? NO RELEASE DATE CONTROL ???
because , i NEVER KNEW there was such thing as " NO RELEASE DATE CONTROL" .... this is madness.
How , how the for the sakes astronomity could you agree to such stupid contract ?
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Can't wait for Project Cafe, the pwn the shit out of this crap, it doesn't have to be super-beefed up, it just needs to FUCKING WORK like N64 did , GCN did , Wii did , and nintendo , no matter WHAT market they targeted, nintendo was always having TOP Qualit of what they provided , even if they provided less online features , it was at LEAST working what they had , this is undebatable , it's toally unfreaking talkable , the whole shit that microsoft done , is all money milikn ...
just to mention a few things: hard drive locking, pehiperals cost a ton, the system is totally unstable, the CD cracks , the RRODs, the HALOReach COOP HDD requirement (double RIPOFF) ... just come on, nintendo doesn't do that shit, never did such dirty business tricks.
I am sick of this crapbox shit , throw in garbage , ... these indie developers are noobs , they seek talent on some broken device on some broken service ... and look the gaming community how everything is portrayed in flowers
the gaming industry became depressive : crytek you can go suck dick for a Crysis2 fail , shame on you.
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Dude you are out of your freeking mind bro.
Don't worry man they will get the PSN back on line eventually you will be able to play your PS3 online very soon.
Oh and word on the street is Project Cafe is gona be two Wii's duck taped together you are gona love that shit, dude twice the freeking power can you believe that shit, EPIC.
I think you convinced me to Ebay my XBox 360 tomorrow, what the shit was I thinking how could we all get it so wrong?
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I don't care about the HD , i don't care about anything crap else for those 14old kids, Wii WORKS , it always works , and it's ENOUGH for zelda , metroid , and mario .... like 8 games total i play , and that's what it's called QUALITY.
I don't need a console to replace gaming , never , cause im PC , the whole logic of microsoft and sony is totally stupid. Do you know how those companies behave and how stupid they are in public.
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That's the anger , now for the point: In a nut shell
PS3; 360; Wii ->> Cafe
Nintendo is like 100 stories higher and watching down on the playground, microsoft is playing around with digging holes and traps and never getting caught , while sony always falls to every hole and trap and every bad luck that gets it gets sony.
Nintendos strategy was this all along, they are extremely adaptive, becuase they are just legendary, no doubt about it.
Now that they taken the mass market money, gaining so much, with making so little ... but actually in the meantime they're giving us back what was "mistaked" with Wii , IT WASN'T MISTAKE, it was a strategy, for cry sakes, they just concentrated on that makrket, and they did it VERY WELL, this is a CHOICE , not a mistake.
All the games that PS3 and 360 has i can play on PC , ... exesss don't need those crappy games, Nintendo for the top tier
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Nintendo: Metroid, Zelda,Mario, F-zero, Starfox, Super Smash Bros, ...etc
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INDIEs are being ABUSED , by these large megacorporations, and steam ...and whatnot
instead of working something on their won like it USED TO BE , ... the erly 90 it was all indie stuff (independent garage developer)
Now look , they make these contracts with major guys like MS , steam ...etc whatever , the point is that they work under certain rules and DEPEND on somebody else, how can this be indie , if they use XBLA to make it super available, on WHO ID software depended in 90 ? on 3DRealms ... yeah not for a long time, was there some
In 90 there was talent and "getting the best out of your self" .-- now look what XBLA made , they even promote INDIE stuff like somethign GREAT .... how can it be great if MICROSOFT DICTATES WHAT INDIES SHOULD DO AND WHEN THEY WILL/CAN RELEASE THE GAME.. HOW IS THIS INDEPENDENT ???
The best and only INDIE is Minecraft ;;; That is a true indie game , whatever the world indie defines for others anyways, it didn't start on Steam! -
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Good biography ... somehow fits , i really do have a great sense of humor ... sometimes these "console" war posts end up more sarcastic fun than serious.
Just end up angry because of how unhealthy these casual gaming is to the industry - it's unfair how much they get the reward for such less work while stealing the work from the great and big developers.
Just check out the 2011 GDC Iwata keynote - the talks exactly about this work the whole hour!
http://gdc2011.nintendo.com/
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If you guys didn't notice ... how would you
i was talking about technicals, technically 360 is a failure, hardware had poor stability / reliability / quality , wii was working with what it had, and nintendo just won in every aspect, they weren't targeting the "core" releases ... oh i was perfectly satisfied with zelda and metroid and smash bros ... so it's not my problem , there was no problem ... im not a 15 old anymore who buys 30 titles in 2 years ... 3-4 of them are enough for a whole year for me, and that's how it should be , but those really good ones , with great replay value.
What is the problem with nintendo is simple, it's the difficulty, i was always for perfection and im a grown up PRO , it's too freaking easy. they need harder options . hopefuilly starfox will have some too.
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Too bad this thread got derailed by random bizarre bullshit. This is actually really good news. Now I just wish MS would hold up on adding any new features for devs and just work on fixing what already exists... ie: fix the lists on the dashboard, revamp the way ratings work and start actually paying devs on time instead of constantly late.