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Quoteworthy: Notch Knocks "Indie" EA

Markus Persson's Twitter has strong reactions from Mojang's Markus 'Notch' Persson to the oddity of the EA Indie Bundle on Steam, as it would be a stretch to refer to anything related to the giant Electronic Arts as "indie" (in the same stretch of tweets he objects to even calling Mojang an "indie"). Beginning by saying: "EA releases an 'indie bundle'? That's not how that works, EA. Stop attempting to ruin everything, you bunch of cynical bastards," he follows with "Indies are saving gaming. EA is methodically destroying it." He caps this off with a clarification of what he's faulting here: "I got into trouble on the interwebs again! The games in the bundle are good, I'm not questioning them. I'm questioning EA." Thanks Develop.

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29. Re: Quoteworthy: Notch Knocks May 3, 2012, 19:27 Bhruic
 
The whole thing about Indie companies is to stop the bleeding from what publishers are doing to the industry

Um, no, that may be what you've decided it is, but you certainly don't speak for everyone. There are quite a few indies who do it that way because it gives them more creative control and freedom for their project. If they can retain that, and still get the benefits of having a larger company distribute for them, where's the downside?

You can still be independent from a publisher as long as the publisher isn't funding your game. If you fund it yourself, and use EA as a distributor, then you are still independent from them.
 
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