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Пишет nancygold ([info]nancygold)
@ 2024-08-10 00:52:00


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"Indie" Games
What is so independent about the multi-million dollar projects with investors, marketing budget and a clear business plan?
"Independent" from what?

For example, Sea of Stars is a typical indie game, it had budget of 3 million USD and a team of 276 people:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/207900/sea-of-stars/credits/windows/

How is that different from typical EA Sports release?

Why should anyone actually buy it, instead of pirating, since employees got paid anyway and the rich investors deserve no return on their investments?

t. communism



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2024-08-10 06:59 (ссылка)
>rich investors deserve no return on their investments

and you deserve to be misgendered.

How do you know it's investors, and not founders taking a loan on their property or something? And even then, there are plenty of single or two people games that became multi million dollar successes. And "indie" game with a sizable budget isn't really typical, but just more visible.

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[info]nancygold
2024-08-10 11:00 (ссылка)
Founder = capitalist and proprietor.
A person who wants to exploit working people.
That is as far from independent artist as possible.
In USSR such people were executed.

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2024-08-10 15:59 (ссылка)
>A person who wants to exploit working people.

A person who takes risks with his own stuff to attempt to produce a product we all can enjoy. No founders = no products. And in indie games it's founder-developers, who often employ only themselves.

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[info]nancygold
2024-08-10 16:56 (ссылка)
>robbery is a risk

Who would have believed!

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2024-08-10 21:51 (ссылка)
only in the retarded "property is theft" sense. Indie founder developers rob noone.

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[info]nancygold
2024-08-11 01:13 (ссылка)
But property is indeed theft.

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2024-08-11 02:16 (ссылка)
but the "property is indeed theft" motto is understood within the context of capitalist exploitation, as in money from nothing. This isn't related to indie founders. At best indie devs are being exploited by the capitalists.

If you understand "property as theft" literally, then give away your stuff to any bum who asks for it.

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