The terms indie already changed quite a while ago, it doesn’t have to be self published to be called indie anymore. Feels like the exact conversation took place 10 years ago.
Because indie doesn’t mean independent. It means small studios with low budgets, kinda, sometimes it doesn’t even mean that (See Clair Obscur winning Best debut indie game despite not being self-published nor being low budget).
The issue with equating indie to independent of publisher means that Cyberpunk 2077 is indie, Destiny 2 was indie for a while. The entire Monster Hunter franchise is indie. And technically Stardew Valley wasn’t indie at release. Neither is Terraria. So the technical definition of indie doesn’t fit the expected definition of indie.
Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
How can you be independent of a publisher, and have a publisher? Its not indie, its just smaller studios.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
The terms indie already changed quite a while ago, it doesn’t have to be self published to be called indie anymore. Feels like the exact conversation took place 10 years ago.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Because indie doesn’t mean independent. It means small studios with low budgets, kinda, sometimes it doesn’t even mean that (See Clair Obscur winning Best debut indie game despite not being self-published nor being low budget).
The issue with equating indie to independent of publisher means that Cyberpunk 2077 is indie, Destiny 2 was indie for a while. The entire Monster Hunter franchise is indie. And technically Stardew Valley wasn’t indie at release. Neither is Terraria. So the technical definition of indie doesn’t fit the expected definition of indie.