I just don’t understand how Expedition 33 can be considered indie. They literally have a publisher.
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mechoman444@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Baldur’s gate 3.
And before y’all start downvoting an indie game has nothing to do with budget. As long as it’s not made by a non-major publisher it is considered indie. Just like Mixtape and Expedition 33 are both indie games right along with schedule 1 and balatro.
Just don’t play mixtape. It’s terrible.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 6 days ago
mechoman444@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Indie games have publishers. Just like indie bands have labels.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Most of what we’ve called indie has had publishers, which is how we’ve heard of those games in the first place.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
As much as I love Larian and BG3, you’d have to have a really narrow definition of “major” if Larian isn’t a major studio since at least DOS2.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It’s never been a major studio. They make a very specific kind of game they publish themselves or through a small publisher. So they’re by definition indie. In fact many people call larian AAA indie.
Mistic@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Personally, I always called such studios AA. They are too large to be indies, yet to small to be AAA.
Expedition 33 creators, for example, would also fall under AA, even though they’re a very young studio.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Well. Luckily there’s already an established definition of the word indie.