{"id":659729,"date":"2013-05-22T21:50:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T01:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=577305"},"modified":"2013-05-22T21:50:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T01:50:50","slug":"microsoft-confirms-indie-developers-cant-self-publish-games-on-xbox-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/659729","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft confirms indie developers can\u2019t self-publish games on Xbox One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/22\/microsoft-xbox-one-games-indie-developers\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/microsoft-xbox-one.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Xbox One Games\" title=\"Microsoft Xbox One Games\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Independent game developers who are excited about selling new games on the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/xbox-one\">Xbox One<\/a> got some bad news on Wednesday. Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/article\/79309\/xbox-one-wont-allow-indies-to-self-publish-games\">confirmed to <em>ShackNews<\/em><\/a> that independent developers cannot self-publish their own games on Xbox Live Arcade, and are instead required to partner with Microsoft Game Studios or a third-party publisher. The policy is completely different from those employed by Sony and Nintendo. Sony embraces\u00a0independent\u00a0developers and welcomes them to create and self-publish content on the PlayStation Network. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft&#8217;s<\/a> upcoming console <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/22\/xbox-one-vs-playstation-4-specs\/\">matches up with Sony&#8217;s PlayStation 4 on paper<\/a>, however there are still some questions that have been left unanswered, such as the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/22\/xbox-one-used-games-sales-policies\/\">ability to play used games<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/phdFpcYU14Y\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent game developers who are excited about selling new games on the Xbox One got some bad news on Wednesday. Microsoft confirmed to ShackNews that independent developers cannot self-publish their own games on Xbox Live Arcade, and are instead required to partner with Microsoft Game Studios or a third-party publisher. The policy is completely different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}