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   The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 01:27:29 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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   • PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷

   @psychicparrot42 I might be way off but I always got the impression that with consoles (perhaps apart from Xbox especially during the XBLA heyday) you're either an insider or an outsider, and transitioning to the insider track is very hard unless you know the right folks or meet them at an event or something. The default seems to be "no". As an open source engine dev in the 00's before OSS was normalised they didn't want anything to do with me

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     PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷 (psychicparrot42@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 01:27:31 JST PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷

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     I spend the time writing up the application; about my games, my history as a dev, why I want to make games for Switch etc and all I get is a ‘your application for access to Switch was rejected’. That’s it! This is how I’m treated as a hard working game developer by this company. I’m shit on their shoe and I don’t even deserve a proper response or a human to appeal to. It’s demoralizing, you know?

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     PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷 (psychicparrot42@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 01:27:32 JST PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷

     I am really angry with Nintendo for rejecting me/my games again. I’ve made some good games that would be perfect for Switch (they’re great on Steamdeck) and yet they’ll allow all kinds of scammy shovelware on there and here they are rejecting someone who is genuinely trying to make good games. It makes no sense and I hate even more that there’s no human on the other end to talk to about it.

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 01:31:05 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     • PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷

     @psychicparrot42 (and once you’re in the insider track you can get away with publishing some awful crap)

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 01:32:23 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

     • PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷

     @psychicparrot42 yeah sounds like they continue to be the exception