/v/ - >Indie game >Look inside >Hundreds of thousands of - Video Games

Anonymous

10/06/25(Mon)20:03:09 No.722625741

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Anonymous 10/06/25(Mon)20:03:09 No.722625741 Archived

>Indie game
>Look inside
>Hundreds of thousands of dollars put into marketing and advertising
Why is this so common now?

Anonymous
10/06/25(Mon)20:06:28 No.722625947

Anonymous 10/06/25(Mon)20:06:28 No.722625947

I look like this

Anonymous
10/06/25(Mon)20:07:31 No.722626008

Anonymous 10/06/25(Mon)20:07:31 No.722626008

working class culture gets hijacked by elites and sold back to them. tale as old as time

Anonymous
10/06/25(Mon)20:07:59 No.722626030

Anonymous 10/06/25(Mon)20:07:59 No.722626030

>>722625741
Example?

Anonymous
10/06/25(Mon)20:09:32 No.722626110

Anonymous 10/06/25(Mon)20:09:32 No.722626110

>>722626008
>class culture
???

Anonymous
10/06/25(Mon)20:16:21 No.722626548

Anonymous 10/06/25(Mon)20:16:21 No.722626548

>>722626030
That one game with the diver fat fuck that was "secretly" pushed by Nexon.

Anonymous
10/06/25(Mon)20:32:47 No.722627569

Anonymous 10/06/25(Mon)20:32:47 No.722627569

>>722625741
It was real in your mind

Anonymous
10/06/25(Mon)20:35:53 No.722627735

Anonymous 10/06/25(Mon)20:35:53 No.722627735

>>722626548
yeah wtf was that about fat faggot diving dave or whatever and slop 33 being mega astroturfed too

Anonymous
10/06/25(Mon)20:36:43 No.722627789

Anonymous 10/06/25(Mon)20:36:43 No.722627789

>>722625741
Corpos realized they could steal the term "indie" as a way to get good will. If you want true indie games you need to find shit made by 3 random guys who have no history in the industry.

Anonymous
10/06/25(Mon)20:36:47 No.722627792

Anonymous 10/06/25(Mon)20:36:47 No.722627792

>>722626030
Indie games

Anonymous
10/06/25(Mon)20:37:03 No.722627810

Anonymous 10/06/25(Mon)20:37:03 No.722627810

>>722625741
Because taking a loan is easy you retard.

>option A
>don't take a loan
>don't market your game
>nobody plays it
>you sell 20 copies at best and your game is forgotten forever

Or....

>take a loan
>market your game
>lots of people play it
>you get lots of money
>hopefully enough paid the loan off AND get some money for bread

Anonymous
10/06/25(Mon)20:47:44 No.722628475

Anonymous 10/06/25(Mon)20:47:44 No.722628475

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>>722625741
Money.
Coopting the indie name might not bring the same amount of money as publishing an AAA game, but it is still quite profitable.
Anything backed by Devolver Digital and Annapurna Interactive shouldn't be allowed to be called "indie".
>>722626030
Picrelated stole the Best Debut Indie Game title on 2003 Game Awards from Pizza Tower, despite being funded and published by Annapurna. Also it was heavily pushed by them into a bunch of other game award shows in 2023-2024.