Daria

updating the nas is always a harrowing situation

in the 2010s the biggest complaint indie devs had was how hard it was to get your game published on steam, xbox, and the ps3. They all called for the barriers to be torn down and to let anyone publish. In 2026 the complaint is that there are too many games being published.

Now that we have AI and anyone can churn 15 different sliding puzzle porn games out a day, it is very obvious we need to go back to the days of manually curated, limited weekly slots for games. Will we? I doubt it, it's hard to stop a firehose, and discoverability is a dev/consumer problem.

in the 2010s the biggest complaint indie devs had was how hard it was to get your game published on steam, xbox, and the ps3. They all called for the barriers to be torn down and to let anyone publish. In 2026 the complaint is that there are too many games being published.

And for the most part they were. Greenlight is gone. XBLA day is a memory of the past. While there are still some small hurdles to overcome when publishing on the major platforms, they're trivial in comparison. Even before AI stores were starting to get flooded with garbage, steam being the worst.

in the 2010s the biggest complaint indie devs had was how hard it was to get your game published on steam, xbox, and the ps3. They all called for the barriers to be torn down and to let anyone publish. In 2026 the complaint is that there are too many games being published.

The goals were obviously to put some sort of checks and limits in place to prevent low quality slop (pre AI) from flooding stores. Not to say there were no bad, poor quality games being published back then, indie or AAA. Obviously there were. But even the worst games were still vetted to some degree

in the 2010s the biggest complaint indie devs had was how hard it was to get your game published on steam, xbox, and the ps3. They all called for the barriers to be torn down and to let anyone publish. In 2026 the complaint is that there are too many games being published.

Everyone thought the slot system was asinine. As indie games grew in popularity and started earning serious money, more and more indie devs came out to talk about how impossible it was for their games to get in the system in the first place.

in the 2010s the biggest complaint indie devs had was how hard it was to get your game published on steam, xbox, and the ps3. They all called for the barriers to be torn down and to let anyone publish. In 2026 the complaint is that there are too many games being published.

In 2010, game indie game discoverability was opening the xbla store on wednesday and deciding if the game that came out this week was worth the points. Microsoft had a strict slot system for xbla published games, and indie devs often had to use their contacts at larger publishers to use their slot

not really enjoying how most high end ereaders (the only ones with physical buttons now) are mostly selling themselves as productivity tablets that just also happen to be ereaders.

finally coming to terms with the fact that I just cannot enjoy literary works of art and I'm a mass market paperback bitch. Even shit written for serialization in the 50s is too highbrow for me.