Indie developers upset over new XBL Dashboard interface
“Everyone knows the top downloads list is where the good money was made, if you landed high enough you could have sales for a few weeks if not months,” said Neil Jones, Monster Talk creator. “If people can’t get to this list easily then things don’t look good. Even if your game gets top rated it won’t help that much if it takes the user 16 plus button presses to find the indie game top rated list.”
The developers are also concerned over games not being listed under genres other than “indie” and are included in a list with over 2,000 other games.
“This is just a giant F-U to all of us,” lamented a Pouncing Kitten Games developer. “There is simply no other way to put it. Put 2000 plus games in a single list and give less than a half dozen filtering options, not including genre? Good call. Whoever made that decision should be fired immediately.”
Other developers seem pleased with the new interface though, citing its improved rating system and the implementation of an indie games tile.
“Overall I think it’s good – there are much more ways to reach Indie games than before the update, and there are two significant improvements to ratings usability,” commented an Awesome Games developer.
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Source: http://www.vg247.com/2011/12/09/indie-developers-upset-over-new-xbl-dashboard-interface/
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pitythefoolPosted:
yeah new dashboard is pretty hideous, I don't like how certain programs were redone; an example is netflix. Its been overhauled and I don't like it any more.. I like being able to click on a show I wanna watch and not have it just load up and immediately start playing, no longer allowing me to look at the episode list and stuff. I'm not a huge fan of the new fast forward and rewind as well. Whatever, I'll have to get used to it..
RickPosted:
MusePlaystation I wish I had the Dashboard.
My console is banned.
Christmas is coming up, you know what that means...
BUY A WII.
i like how the guy with the name playstation complains about having his xbox banned, and then get's told to buy a wii
ChampzPosted:
Ant Yes and they also hid Inside Xbox.
I'm so sick of all of the adverts I get on the dashboard now.
Yeah, I know... This new dashboard sucks and it doesn't even look good... Not to mention, the beacons get annoying as *InsertWordHere*
AntPosted:
Yes and they also hid Inside Xbox.
I'm so sick of all of the adverts I get on the dashboard now.
I'm so sick of all of the adverts I get on the dashboard now.
HexicidalPosted:
Playstation I wish I had the Dashboard.
My console is banned.
Christmas is coming up, you know what that means...
BUY A WII.
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