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Jonathan Blow doesn't read contracts carefully.

He signed a contract, so MS is not in the wrong. However, MS do have very shady practices. I would not want to release games on their system. The simultaneous release rules are really silly.
 
RdN said:
Oh man.. There's not one day that goes by that we don't have an indie developer bitching about something on Twitter. I guess that's what you get when you have a bunch of amateurs on the spotlight, but still..

Anyway.. If MS dropped the price, I'm sure they did because the game's not selling very well lately, and they're trying to spice up the numbers.
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There are a lot of "indie" studios that aren't amateurs...
 
Triggerhappytel said:
He's hardly blowing up. It's common decency to expect to be notified if they're reducing the price of his game, even if they're entitled to do so.
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"Blow up" might sound a little extravagant, but considering that a developer is using something public like twitter to complain about a publisher seems reactionary and unprofessional.
 
Alo81 said:
It is yes.

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So he first rage on twitter, then realizes that it's part of the contract and then, he goes to say he can pull the game out of the 360 as a reaction of his childish whining? Whoa, Jonathan. Are you stupid? Please pull a Phil Fish and get the hell out of this industry. Braid was mediocre anyway.
 
Oh, my God at his last two tweets:

"Oh, maybe we actually agreed to a price drop in 2010 and I forgot because it has been so damn long? My email only goes back to 2011!"

"If so, my bad!"
 
Jonathan Blow ‏@Jonathan_Blow 1m
Oh, maybe we actually agreed to a price drop in 2010 and I forgot because it has been so damn long? My email only goes back to 2011!


lol.


He just deleted his old tweets too
 
The OP seriously needs to be updated with that major nelson link, this is blown out of 4 year old proportions.

Edit: good lord, what a mess
 
enzo_gt said:
Oh, hey look, it's Jonathan Blow 2 years ago acknowledging how he can't control price on XBLA.



What is he whining about this time, that pleasantries aren't included in the contract?
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The fact that he wasn't made aware so he could adjust the other, more developer-friendly platforms.

Jessie.Bristol said:
Now he says he might raise the PC price for support costs: https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/450384773244940289
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That was posted before all of this though.
 
jim2011 said:
Do you really think that EA, Square Eidos, or Activision notify developers when they decide to put their games on sale, especially on the digital marketplaces?
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Are we talking sales or permanent price reductions? Either way, it doesn't take much for a status update email. So i guess that makes all publishers shitty.
 
Treythalomew said:
The only time anyone mentions Blow it has something to do with Microsoft. Dude rails pretty hard against them but I would have never bought Braid if it hadn't seen a zillion ads on XBLA when it came out.
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That's pretty much my situation. I thought MS pushed his game well, I could be wrong though.
 
tim_pkmn89 said:
The fact that he wasn't made aware so he could adjust the other, more developer-friendly platforms.
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Seems like he wasn't aware of anything regarding Braid, and only decided to jump on the opportunity to express his distaste when MS was involved. Another day in the office, I guess.
 
PsihoPerihelion said:
So he first rage on twitter, then realizes that it's part of the contract and then, he goes to say he can pull the game out of the 360 as a reaction of his childish whining? Whoa, Jonathan. Are you stupid? Please pull a Phil Fish and get the hell out of this industry. Braid was mediocre anyway.
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lets not be pricks




I also need my Witness people
 
pulling the game from XBLA to spite the fact that MS dropped the price without telling him is both a) rude to consumers and b) rather cutting off your nose to spite your face
 
I think he needs a vacation or something. He probably freaked out (I would if I found out something like that) and unfortunately displayed it on Twitter
 
That's why businessmen are heading most development studios and not game developers. Especially indies like this guy would be well advised to take external advice on contracts.
 
godelsmetric said:
pulling the game from XBLA to spite the fact that MS dropped the price without telling him is both a) rude to consumers and b) rather cutting off your nose to spite your face
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It must be done to protect the values I stand for that I also compromised when I knowingly signed a contract that does not share them.
 
ActionRemix said:
What is the right attitude?
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There isn't really a right attitude...but he acts like a child pretty much any time he's public. His hate towards Microsoft is crazy. His hate directly led him to tweet about a 4 year old price reduction that he himself agreed to...because it's Microsoft.

I don't usually not buy games because of anything other than not liking it, but he makes me not want to support his games because of his crazy immaturity.
 
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