I disagree. Every game is funded from somewhere. Are we going to track all the funding sources from every studio and use that to determine what’s indie? Plenty of games are developed by a small passionate team without any publisher oversight, regardless of the publisher involved. I think that’s really the main criteria — it’s not who is bankrolling you, it’s how much influence they have. Microsoft is very hands-off by all accounts, whereas EA and Nintendo like to interfere a lot.

Trap is a huge AOE denial, though. Getting one person is great but it does a ton to help the team around corners.

What a meaningless statement. Overwatch 2 didn’t “replace” Overwatch 1 anymore than any service game changes completely over the course of several years. Hunt has already changed plenty over the years.