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Xbox Live Indie Games market too small, Clover's developer says
NihonTiger90 \| 10:03 PM on 06.24.2009	2 comments

The folks behind Xbox Live Indie Game title Clover aren't too happy with the way the Xbox Live Indie Games market works, and they're vocal enough to tell that to Digital Spy. Binary Tweed managing director Daniel Jones said that the game has underperformed and that there's no way they'll be able to recoup costs on their title.

"The problem is that the Community Games market is just too small, and the people buying titles via the service don't seem at all interested in games. In the first week of Clover's release, the top ten CG titles was made of eight applications, RC-Airsim and one edutainment game."

In the end, it seems like at least for Binary Tweed, the Indie Games section will not be more than an arena for testing while they focus on trying to somehow crack through the developer glass ceiling another way. I only wonder about the future of the Indie Games section, if this is the case. Who can afford to keep eating losses and still try to be profitable? Certainly not the smallest guys out there.

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Everyone needs to buy Clover. Right now.

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I just like achievements so much... and community games don't have them for some reason. I think more gamers would be interested if they made the community games feel like applicable titles like the marketplace ones. It's hard to take community games seriously when they don't have that extra push to make it seem like a valid purchase. Microsoft needs to make community games not feel so separate from their XBLA games library.

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