On EA and Indies

[May 05, 2012, 3:40 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

An interview on Rock, Paper, Shotgun talks with Nels Anderson of Klei about working with EA's Partners program. After EA took some heat for offering an "indie" bundle, Anderson explains that a lot of those games could not have been created without EA, which some would say is the reason this all doesn't qualify as "indie." Here's one of his comments:

First, all the games in this bundle were published via the EA Partners program. It’s the same group that Valve uses to release their games on consoles. It’s actually a very small group of people within EA and the people that run it are separate from EA’s internal studios.

And it really is a partnership. I never saw anything that could even be vaguely considered creative pressure. EAP got on board with the games because they liked the concepts and the developers! I think they understood that total creative freedom was very important to all the developers involved in these projects.

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May 5, 2012, 22:17

Jerykk

ViRGE wrote on May 5, 2012, 20:10: Beelzebud wrote on May 5, 2012, 15:49: Here is the problem. They took the concept from the Humble Indie Bundle, so when people see "Indie Bundle" they assume that this is being handled as a 'pay what you want' promotion, and some of the money goes to charity. What EA did was co-opt the "indie bundle" brand, and charge 20.00 for it, with no money going to charity. If they don't see why people are upset about it, they're more tone deaf than I imagined. But the brand isn't "Indie Bundle", it's "Humble Bundle". I would hope no one got that confused with EA's game bundle on Steam as those are two very different things. The problem is that the bundle is referred to as an indie bundle when EA was involved in either the publishing or distribution of the games contained within. An indie game is one that was developed and released without any publisher.

		Date	Subject	Author
	1.	May 5, 15:49	Re: On EA and Indies	Beelzebud
	2.	May 5, 15:57	Re: On EA and Indies	[VG]Reagle
	3.	May 5, 16:04	Re: On EA and Indies	deqer
	4.	May 5, 16:29	Re: On EA and Indies	Prez
	10.	May 5, 20:10	Re: On EA and Indies	ViRGE
	11.	May 5, 21:37	Re: On EA and Indies	{PH}88fingers
>>	12.	May 5, 22:17	Re: On EA and Indies	Jerykk
	13.	May 5, 22:56	Re: On EA and Indies	Quboid
	14.	May 5, 23:09	Re: On EA and Indies	Jerykk
	16.	May 6, 00:28	Re: On EA and Indies	Lesaonar
	17.	May 6, 03:52	Re: On EA and Indies	spindoctor
	5.	May 5, 16:33	Re: On EA and Indies	RollinThundr
	7.	May 5, 19:39	Re: On EA and Indies	killer_roach
	8.	May 5, 19:46	Re: On EA and Indies	SimplyMonk
	9.	May 5, 19:57	Re: On EA and Indies	Bhruic
	6.	May 5, 19:36	Re: On EA and Indies	Cutter
	15.	May 6, 00:01	Re: On EA and Indies	Creston
	18.	May 6, 10:32	Re: On EA and Indies	Silicon Avatar
	19.	May 6, 11:43	Re: On EA and Indies	Parallax Abstraction
	20.	May 6, 22:54	Re: On EA and Indies	Jerykk