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I run mogade.com. Most of the games that use the service are on Windows Phone. The sense that I get is that Microsoft treats its indie developers pretty poorly.
by latch 15y ago
I run mogade.com. Most of the games that use the service are on Windows Phone. The sense that I get is that Microsoft treats its indie developers pretty poorly.
They essentially get no help in terms of promotion, services, and support. Plus there's growing confusion over the future of the platform (fragmentation caused by WP8, the future of Silverlight...)
Some people use mogade just for the very basic real time stats it provides, which blows my mind. I mean, how can't Microsoft provide this kind of basic service. It pretty much boils down to: hincrby app yyyymmdd 1
Until this is fixed, I wouldn't hold my breath. If it was me, I'd be innovating on the developer service/support side at a painful pace. First class facebook library. Great stats. XBox Live Lite/Indie (which would kill the need for mogade, and would make me happy). Discovery and promotion tools. Better store.
- tristan_louis 15y agoThat's very useful info. Thanks for bubbling it up. My goal in writing the article was to get such things to surface as they're not visible today. In listing my contrarian case for the rise of WP7, I was trying to get opposing viewpoints so I could get a better sense as to what decision to make from a prioritization standpoint at our startup. It's clear we have to do iOS first but after that, where do we go: Android or WP? Android has more people but we might get more press and more uptake from WP so it's a tough call. Odd indies are treated poorly by MSFT. The FUD from MSFT is that they've been working hard to get more developer over to their platform. Glad to have evidence that that may not be entirely true.