Comment on Nintendo Issues Multiple DMCAs On The Modding Site 'GameBanana'
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 months agoPersonally, I think I’d rather not even give them the word of mouth of having played their game. There’s so much out there to play, and plenty of it doesn’t come from a company doing lousy stuff like this, even if it’s second hand.
KRAW@linux.community 6 months ago
So you only play indie games? Because that’s basically the only way you avoid “companies doing lousy stuff.”
Voyajer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If there’s any time playing only indie games is viable it’s now. We’ve had high quality indie releases outpacing how fast you can play them for a few years now.
bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Especially on PC. Also, people forget that Indie doesn’t necessarily mean “made by a small team/low budget”. It just means it was produced by a studio that isn’t at the behest of some massive corperation/faceless number crunching shareholders. CD Projekt Red is an independant studio, as is Valve.
Also, some games are developed independently by small studios, but then marketed and published by a larger company. Devolver is an example of a publishing house with an excellent track record of just letting the indie dev teams they work with do whatever they want.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 months ago
CD Projekt is publicly traded.
VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yup. I tend to like Annapurna published games.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Steam Deck and other Linux handhelds make it super easy to play indies.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 months ago
Pretty much.
More specifically, I only play new games that I can pay the author for directly. That tends to be pretty indie.
And then I play a crapload of abandonware.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 months ago
More and more lately, but not exclusively. I have an increasingly long list of things that are deal-breakers for me, and I haven’t run out of stuff to play.