I hate Micro$oft so much and I hate the fact that I have to deal with them at all to play my favorite games. As soon as there is an alternative, I will never give MS another penny.

No! Damn the Japanese... wait. So, now what?

What!? Well that blows. I cannot fathom any good reason for this to happen. You're making it very hard to be a fan, Microsoft.

No more Minecraft ripoffs, but it's terrible news because most indie games are awesome. What was Microsoft thinking? Is the 720 about to come or something?

I made a little platformer in XNA for a school project last year. A bit sad to see it go =(

It was used for Fez, Bastion, and Dust? *Sigh* It's sad to see it go, then.

Booooo

I'm told it was a great framework for C# developers. Sad to see it go. While you can never know what M$ is planning, you can be certain they only care about profit and little else, if anything. Microsoft Flight Simulator was the biggest home simulator in PC history, and M$ killed it 'cause of pure greed. Indie developers made a living off MS Flight Sim creating near perfect simulated aircraft and scenarios for it. The "add-on" market was huge (still is), with varying prices (I remember paying 80 bucks for a 747 - it had everything, including ACARS and a functional FMC), but Microsoft wasn't making any money from all this. So they killed it. Sure they "gave" us Microsoft Flight; it sucked. It wasn't a simulator by any standard. Flight was a theme park scenario (Oahu) with a couple light aircraft thrown-in. And then they started selling VERY POORLY made aircraft as paid DLC. Of course it never took off and Flight died in a year. Windows 8 is a complete failure, too. So, if anybody reading this works at M$ or - better yet - can talk to Balmer, tell him to let go of whoever is making these stupid decisions, including himself.

lmao.

They'll replace it with something. I'm not worried.

Come to PC indie devs we will support you. If you use the free version of unreal dev kit, and do direct distribution you can keep close to %100 of the revenue from your game. You also wont need to pay Msoft if you decide to update your game, it is a win win.

Stupid move. I guess I'm sticking to PS4 next gen.... and of course PC as usual.

Unless there is a replacement for indie games, F Microsoft.  Support it no more!

that sucks. I was just learning how to use XNA!

Okay, then I guess we can just use: Construct Classic (for PC with no license fees) Construct 2 (for Linux, Mac, PC, Android, and Web) Game Maker 8 (PC, Mac) UDK (Xbox 360, PS3, PC) Unity (it's even been ported to the Wii for crying out loud) CryEngine 3 (Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Mac) Ren'pyj (PC, Mac, Linux) and countless other engines readily available. I never honestly got why so many indie devs stretched for XBLA, because just as much success can be found on PSN, Steam, and/or Desura.

Well that's nice. I was going to start using XNA once I learned C# from my college classes. Guess I won't be now. Of course, this could just be that they're planning to introduce a new dev kit for the next Xbox.

Isn't the Unreal kit free?

WHAT? Seriously what? I was going to start using that this may when i graduate college. I was looking forward to trying to develop games in my spare time, technically i am already registered to be an app developer for windows 8 and once I got a job i was going to pay the yearly fee to get the indie developer kit. I really hope this isnt true or if it is they have another system to replace it, kind of like zune turning into xbox music

That's depressing, I was actually thinking about using this.