Making an XBLA Game: The Inside Story

[CDFN]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-21-making-an-xbla-game-the-inside-story-article

MS really is giving indie developers a hard time. It's a very interesting article, check it out.

[Hathen]

Great article that presents both sides. XBL definately needs to lax some of its rules if it wants to do any better. In particular, I think it would've made more sense if they actually gave benefits to developers willing to stay exclusive.

[daschrier]

The argument about wanting XBL to only have quality games is invalidated simply by the awful D&D game that just came out which is full of bugs.

[Hathen]

If you're talking about Daggerdale, that was made by a third party company. The article was probably saying that putting games through third parties generally results in better products, not that every single one would be flawless.