Way back in 2008, Microsoft, in a moment of salience, realized that Independent Games were becoming a Big Deal. Their response to this rising movement was to bring their XNA game development platform to Xbox Live, allowing newbies and enthusiasts of all stripes to produce and sell Indie games on Xbox live with minimal investment of money and experience. The Xbox Indie Marketplace exploded with submissions, rising to over 3000 in just a few years, while at the same time, few of these games found any real traction. Before Microsoft shuttered the platform in 2017, the Xbox Indie Marketplace became known as a hive of scum and villainy worse than any mobile phone app store or even the Indie-centric marketplace on PC of the time, Desura, which, itself, would disappear in 2016.
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