Honestly, I think people only care so much because everyone hates Nexon, and don’t want to give them any flowers. I hate Nexon too, but if you look in half the nominees for the category, you’re going to see multi-million dollar publishers over and over and over. Devolver is literally a publically traded company, and their games are nominated literally every year, and nobody gave a fuck.
The spirit of indie is making a game from nothing, either low budget, and/or small team. You would not say that Half-Life:Alyx is an indie game, Valve is pouring a fuck ton of money from their billion dollar market place directly into the development. If Walmart started an internal game studio, and started making AAA games, you would not call that an indie studio. Does indie become a bit more meaningless? Sure. Not every title is going to be independent, but if that means that Dave The Diver, and Disco Elysium aren’t being contested by Baldur’s Gate 3, The Witcher 3, and Half-Life:Alyx, it’s probably for the better.
Honestly, I think people only care so much because everyone hates Nexon, and don’t want to give them any flowers. I hate Nexon too, but if you look in half the nominees for the category, you’re going to see multi-million dollar publishers over and over and over. Devolver is literally a publically traded company, and their games are nominated literally every year, and nobody gave a fuck.
The spirit of indie is making a game from nothing, either low budget, and/or small team. You would not say that Half-Life:Alyx is an indie game, Valve is pouring a fuck ton of money from their billion dollar market place directly into the development. If Walmart started an internal game studio, and started making AAA games, you would not call that an indie studio. Does indie become a bit more meaningless? Sure. Not every title is going to be independent, but if that means that Dave The Diver, and Disco Elysium aren’t being contested by Baldur’s Gate 3, The Witcher 3, and Half-Life:Alyx, it’s probably for the better.