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Victory for indie game devs.

Xbox Live Indie Games developers will be celebrating after Microsoft moved the channel back to the Games & Demos section of the Xbox 360 dashboard.

Microsoft triggered an outpouring of anger from indie developers after it shunted the XBLIG channel to the Speciality Shops tab away from other Xbox Live releases.

They complained it made their games harder to find.

Explaining the move, Microsoft told Eurogamer the new set-up worked better for independent developers.

'XBLIG moved back to Games & Demos' Screenshot 1

Now it appears Microsoft has backtracked on the change.

Xbox Live Indie Games are now in the Games & Demos section within the Game Marketplace, sitting pretty with Xbox Live Arcade Games, Games on Demand and Demos.

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King_Edward #1 1 year ago

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\o/
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BillPoon #2 1 year ago

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Great news, got to applaud MS for the realisation that they made an arse of it.
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Tinrib72 #3 1 year ago

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Agree with BillPoon. Good news.
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tossetaz #4 1 year ago

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And now Microsoft, introduce XBLIG in Denmark and all of the rest of the countries who's still missing it!
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richyroo #5 1 year ago

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now they just need to realise they made a complete arse of the new dashboard redesign and revert back to the old one.

Edited by 1 at 09/11/10 @ 10:20
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Ignatius_Cheese #6 1 year ago

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HOORAY! \o/
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dancingrob #7 1 year ago

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great news.
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StolenGlory #8 1 year ago

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Indies 1
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mfnick #9 1 year ago

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See, this is why its worth kicking up a fuss about stuff you dont agree with.

Well done Indies.
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Gambit1977 #10 1 year ago

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No chance of them changing the dashboard back. I think it was due to memory concerns with kinect.
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Cronan #11 1 year ago

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Great news, only took 356 upvotes on Microsoft Connect
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davisorle #12 1 year ago

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This is good. MS does listen and always care3d about Indie games for their platform. They wouldnt have done that kind of change if they really didnt believe it was a good change. They were obviously proved wrong and changed it back. Good news.
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Crea #13 1 year ago

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Good news, on the AppHub forums some long-time devs whose games had been doing very well over a long period reported an overnight halving of sales, if not worse. Seems like MS concur after looking at the data for the channel as a whole.
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Remy #14 1 year ago

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Good news. However as others have said, the whole new dash is still a backwards step overall.

Now they just need to revise the whole indie channel to better deal with the signal-noise ratio. Top converting (people who actually BUY it, not just d/l the trial) games recent and all-time I think would be the best. But recent games over 3.5 stars would also be a good one.
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Crea #15 1 year ago

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I'd agree with that - the Top Downloads and Top Rated favour incumbents very strongly. I'd love a Recently Added / Top Rated combo.
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orangpelupa #16 1 year ago

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wow glad to know that MS is still "hearing" the customer demand,

they added 16:10 aspec ratio in NXE update as customer demmand
bring XBLIG back to "games" as customer demmand.

maybe if some trusted great website like eurogamer give in-depth article about what the communty wants to add to the Xbox/kinect, microsoft will hear it too. (maybe PC driver for kinect? release more games on PC? bring proper movie and subttle file support on xbox? )
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Fab4 #17 1 year ago

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I want victory for what is left of my retinas...ffs MS, give us the option to change the white!!
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MyPointIs #18 1 year ago

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Yes, thank you Deity! The common sense is out there. Somewhere. This makes a happy bunny
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darleysam #19 1 year ago

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Hey, good news!
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Centrifugal #20 1 year ago

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Yay, hypocrisy!
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Machiavellian #21 1 year ago

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WOW, MS actually listen!!!

I am fine with the redesign because it moves faster on my system. What I would like is the ability to change the menus colors.
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Retroid #22 1 year ago

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\o/

It was sheer stupidity.
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Sunyavadin #23 1 year ago

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MS: "The New XBox dashboard colour scheme works much, much better for your retinas"
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Pasco #24 1 year ago

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"Indies 1
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How come Microsoft doesn't get any points for listening to developers?
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