Microsoft scraps developer fees for Xbox 360 patches - Report

So what. You still force indies into not being able to self publish, and force a limited exclusivity agreement for any that still want their title on your platform.

Don't pretend you're friendly to indies.

All is well in the land of the Xbox owners.

" Microsoft's choice to charge "$40,000" for additional title updates was so that developers would focus more on the quality of their software before initial release"

Hahahahahahaha!!!

No comment needed.

wait they were gonna charge for updates?

Too late for the Orange Box...

yeahhh

Now work on bringing XBL indie games to XB1. It's doable, and no reason not to.

Credit where credit is due; Microsoft has taken another step in the right direction.

So its one step closer to steam but how many step to go

That's an egg in the face of that Fez guy who was crying saying MS don't love me, Fez would never come to any Xbox platform am going all Sony from now on

It wouldn't be a good idea to totally ditch QA. In the past PS3 didn't have any (or very few) independent 1 man team games because of the dreaded cell, MS had XNA and a PC like architecture so every man and his dog wrote games for it. MS had to put up some type of control/big stick or it would have been insanity. Perhaps it was too much of a big stick but I feel MS is getting treated unfairly by many here when they were in a position that Sony was not by being more friendly to devs in the first place.

A PR play no doubt, milk the developers for the general lifespan of the console then drop it right at the end to try to earn rep from the community.

I just wanna know why would you charge for something like that in the first place? Seems like more damage control, which they are doing a good job of.

So are they letting Indies self publish now too? That could help them out a ton in that area.

They did this in response to losing indie devs to Sony. Also: i don't think it said anything about no fees for the XBone, just the 360, just pointing that out. Something to keep an eye on when the XBone comes out.

Microsoft have said very little. They only said Arcade games are free and have been since April 2013.

Microsoft is smart they said nothing about all" X box 360 being free to patch. And no mention of what their policy is in regards to XB1 games.

To all the haters and ignorants, if you read the note it says that these charges were drop at the begining of 2013, which is way before the xbox one reveal. And contrary to Sony, which like to been seen as saints, they did not published this as something to hold and being seen as a good company. I think you need to read bqefore talking.

Too little too late. Sony never pulled this shit, and you already lost developers.

Man they are running scared now. It's like they're trying throw as many seemingly "good" things at us as they can without actually doing anything serious to their bottom line

oh how generous

Its free now that the gen is over.

Thumbs up to Microsoft for this decision. That was such a silly policy.

Wow Microsoft are getting super aggressive reverting many policies. Kudos to them.

It's a good thing. I wonder how things work with Sony?

It must be like chopping of your own leg to save yourself. Each time they have to retract a policy must be like the swing of an axe. Each chop of the axe must be agony. Tears are flowing, snot loosening, spit is drooling. I can't tell if I wanna laugh or cry at their misery.