Blow spends his whole time on Twitter crying about MS, even long after what was done to him. And his recent tweet he had to actually say "my bad" (a d-bag type of apology) because he spouted off some nonsense when MS dropped the price of his game for XBL, but then quickly remembered it may have been in the original contract for them to do so.

It seems the ones who get the spotlight are the ones that usually cry the loudest, but the one's who were treated fair or have no bad experience say nothing because it was business as usual.

Yes, MS has had a bad rep when it came to a few indies, I am not denying that. But to say anti-indie when they provided tools like XNA to anyone who signed up, a community driven channel where the community chose the games and the lowest fee for those devs and programmers that submitted their game to the 360.

I hardly call that anti-indie.

I agree. Why should MS waste their time catering to EVERY indie when 60% of X1 owners won't even hear about it. Why not invest the time elsewhere like on an AAA exclusive (which is exactly what they're doing)?

The select few indies like Below which MS sees the potential are the ones that get the attention, not boring indies getting ported from iPhone.

I bought a next-gen console for a reason. To play next-gen games.

@maniac

How many devs have complained about Sony when dealing with them? I recall only one and that was ages ago.

No one is saying that there are devs that are happy with MS. It's just that there are still problems that MS need to solve. Communication is a problem and a dev on here even complained about their treatment.

@pork

I agree with you but Blow is a terrible example. That guy is an insufferable, attention seeking whinger and the likes of him and Phil Fish, regardless of their obvious talents, are bad examples of people having remotely reasonable sentiments simply because of the entitled way they act. Their heads are too far up their backsides.

That's the biggest problem with indies IMO.. Most artists know jack squat about business.. And these guys like blow literally have no clue how to conduct themselves in a corporate environment.. Because most of them have never done so..

Yet now game directors are the public voice of their company when they could be entirely antisocial or huge ego maniacs or whatever else.. You could be the most talented developer on the face of the earth, but that doesn't mean you understand how to do business..

Even the tweets earlier.. Its so vague.. Its just a hissy fit.. Maybe he feels ms should be calling him rather then him picking up a phone? I can get through to Microsoft and I'm just a random nobody to them.. Its not nearly enough info to start judging

Not sure if you just worded that weird or what? MS has 250 indies signed up Sony has over 1000.

Because every other day there's an indie dev bashing ms then another praising it, then u have fanboys bashing ms calling them moneybags, then titanfall devs say ms saved them when Sony didn't want to help then they are bashing ms again, then there's praise about Sony and indies then bashing ms and indies, I'm really gettin tired of this, they are free to have their opinion but my opinion was that I should ignore articles about indie devs praising and dissing ms and sony

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

Contractual agreements are not the same as “gentlemen” agreements. If you think that they work with their distributors a month before production then their entire business model is trash. They work with companies like nvidia constantly for building the graphics cards they need. They work with companies that build motherboards years in advance. This is what proper business planning does.

They are not buying components on a whim like a consumer. So again, considering the ram isn’t a singular module and is integrated into the motherboard I highly doubt they wouldn’t have a final schematic that they are supposed to be building around.

If they are delaying production another 3 years then it’s obvious again this is an after though project and is just trying to be responsive to their bad execution they had the last 14 years.

It also isn’t far fetched to use their failure to produce first party titles the last 7 years including the highly anticipated games I mentioned all being cancelled. That they would continue to you know… lie

Yeah with FSR 5 they should be able to offer a much cheaper version of Helix.

Series S is what has killed Xbox Series so... Will they dare?

The factors are largely external. Covid and Russia-Ukraine war causing inflation led to the first price increase in 2022.

Then we get Trump's tariffs increasing hardware prices, AI boom causing a RAM crisis, war on Iran causing a worldwide fuel crisis which impacts the cost of everything.

Gaming doesn't exist in a vacuum. The last few years have been a shitshow and lot of it was definitely avoidable.

LucasRuinedChildhood,

For sure. No disagreement on the external factors doing a lot of this. Where I have to gently push back however is on two fronts:

1. The pandemic definitely caused some issues: asynchronous development was a big issue and really complicated timelines and affected game quality. At the same time, when it comes to price hikes, it's really difficult to know what was genuine necessity and what was taking consumers for a ride. The pandemic brought about "stag-flation" which was increasing prices and stagnant wages, which was a problem caused by supply chain constraints. There was also "Greed-flation", where companies that were slightly affected or had no issues took advantage of the situation and squeezed everyone citing supply chain issues when there were none.

2. It's definitely true that the tariffs, AI boom, and RAM crisis were all things enabled by tech broligarchs throwing money at this caricature of a world leader, one of them being Satya Nadella. I don't think Sony and Nintendo have contributed much to this problem if at all, but Microsoft's Nadella I feel was instrumental in causing every one of those issues. Microsoft as a company contributed to both candidates (though they gave Harris 4x as much if I recall), but Nadella was all in on letting AI run wild. He paid for unregulated AI, and got a war that's not a war (even though Trump called it that at least five times on television) that screwed up helium access. So for me, I feel that one of the players in the gaming industry is a key architect of these issues, and for that reason I struggle a bit to think of it as "external".