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Indie devs dislike Xbox dashboard update

article published on 10 December, 2011

Indie devs concerned about new Metro-styled Xbox dashboard. 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 ... [ read the full article ]

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Mysttic
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_ 		10. December 2011 @ 10:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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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Bozobub
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_ 		10. December 2011 @ 12:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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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scorpNZ
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_ 		10. December 2011 @ 13:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Microsoft is your friend :p

edit:saying stolen from google is your friend
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WierdName
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_ 		10. December 2011 @ 16:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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#...
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Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
"Opinions are immunities to being told were wrong." - Relient K
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