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Same sentiment on wishing to play both, but I don't think they suck. It's all they have resources for. Have you seen the documentary on Fez in Indie Game: The Movie (2012)? It's on Netflix streaming and it is awesome. Everyone that puts their heart and soul into a game like that and get torn down but trudges ahead despite all odds should be rewarded... even if you are funded by the Canadian government: www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884

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You'll see in "Indie Game" that Team Meat got kind of fucked by MSFT. Phil Fish has similar horror stories: he avoided patching a critical bug because supposedly it would have cost him $40k to recertify Fez: http://kotaku.com/5927224/fez-wont-be-fixed-because-microsof...

So, if nothing else, it seems like it sucks for the developer.

>You'll see in "Indie Game" that Team Meat got kind of fucked by MSFT.

I don't know, it seemed like MSFT giving them a hard deadline was what they really needed to actually finish the game. And the sum total of "fucked" was that the promotion for the game in the marketplace didn't go up when they expected it to, and they still had a great first day, and went on to sell great.

No, actually, they got fucked pretty hard. What you see in the movie is only about 10% of what happened -- but you are also misinterpreting what you saw in the movie, which is already pretty bad.

I assume The Witness is cross-platform (including MS platforms) and self-published?

Also, I never got to thank you personally for Braid - It plunged me into introspection and little did I know, I was exactly like Tim, a villain thinking of themselves as a hero.

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