Notch once-again proves that he's awesome

[redrew89]

The regular Indie Bundle sales on Steam have always attracted a good amount of attention from the Minecraft community, as Notch has always been a prominant figure (yes, figure in a monetary sense as well) in the proceedings. Recently, EA announced there own "Indie Bundle" and many gaming blogs have had to scratch their collective heads and say "Wait... EA is the antithesis of indie, right?" Seems like Notch is willing to call them out: Read for awesomeness

EA is just being silly, trying to exploit the current "indie craze" to sell games no one really wants.

Thoughts?

[BinoAl]

You know, I saw the bundle on steam, and it didn't even occur to me it was the "EA Indie Bundle"...
EA is the antithesis of indie.
>.>

[rhacer]

Given the games ARE indie and some of them quite good, I'm not sure I understand the vitriol. I'm no fan of EA, but providing additional exposure for the small studios involved can only really be a good thing.

[BinoAl]

Given the games ARE indie and some of them quite good, I'm not sure I understand the vitriol. I'm no fan of EA, but providing additional exposure for the small studios involved can only really be a good thing.

The issue comes in with your definition of indie: Do you take indie as being self published, or as small developers? EA is one of the largest publishers out there, and for them to call a game they published "Indie", its a little ironic :p

[kregoth]

EA is just being silly, trying to exploit the current "indie craze" to sell games no one really wants.

Thoughts?

Honestly the games offered are great specially Shank and Death Spank. And a big part that people are actually missing is that these games where independently developed before EA even picked them up. I agree that using the word indie is a bad term for EA to be using, but the game where indie and that is what really matters, EA may be the horrible poster child for the game industry and they are using the term rather poorly, but they aren't right out lying about it they are just kinda using it wrong.

The games are worth the purchase even if EA has their shitty hands on them. I don't want to support EA but the people who made the games do need it, and that to me is all that should really matter.

[FlowerChild]

I was actually happy to see Notch say that Mojang doesn't really qualify as indie anymore. I've been silently wondering about that for awhile now.

[Mr_Hosed]

You make 20+ million on a game and no matter how small you started, you're not indie anymore.