Fez 2 will not be coming to Xbox consoles, says creator Phil Fish.

When asked by Polygon which platforms the game would appear on, the indie developer simply said “Not Xbox".

Despite the success of Fez on the Xbox 360, Fish clashed publicly with Microsoft, particularly after the company wanted to charge him certification fees for a patch that corrupted save files as well as a patch to fix that bug.

"It's a shitty numbers game to be playing for sure," he wrote at the time, "but as a small independent, paying so much money for patches makes NO SENSE AT ALL."

He was equally frank about his thoughts on the Xbox One.

"I hope it's a joke," he said.

"I hope Microsoft is pulling a New Coke on us, announcing a shit console nobody wants, only to eventually announce the Xbox Classic and winning back everybody's hearts. Microsoft is making a console for itself.

“Not for gamers. Not for developers. Just for its own, greedy little Orwellian self. I'm not interested."

Even after the company rolled back its online policies Fish remained unimpressed.

"I don't think it changes much for me,” he said. “They didn't change anything about their anti-indie policies."

Fish added that the PlayStation 4 was doing everything right.

"It's too early to tell how everything is going to unfold but their heart definitely seems to be in the right place,” he said.

“Whether or not I would develop for it comes down to how the platform holder treats me. With Microsoft they've made it painfully clear they don't want my ilk on their platform.

"One is having a big love-in orgy and the other is doing yet another fucking Minecraft port," said Fish.

Another indie developer that regrets dealing with Microsoft is Skulls of the Shogun developer Borut Pfeifer, who outlined his feelings to RPS thusly: “I personally would like to go back in time and kick myself in the balls. I'd just like to have that year and a half of my life back.”

Apparently Pfeifer wasn’t paid on time, and ran into "exponential difficulties" during Microsoft’s certification process.

“When people call Microsoft ‘evil’, while I don’t want to defend them, it’s kind of an undeserved compliment,” he said.

“To be evil, you have to have vision, you have to have communication, execution… None of those are traits are things that I would ascribe to Microsoft Studios.”

These bad experiences may seem like isolated events, but the reaction of independent developers to the news they wouldn’t be able to self-publish on Xbox One was one of near-universal horror.

However a rumour is floating about that Microsoft will announce a self-publishing system for indies on Xbox One at its Build Developer Conference tomorrow.