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adjl posted...

If indies "take over," they'll be just as bad as AAA. The evils of the AAA market are inherent to high-budget projects; the things we like about indie games are a function of them being smaller projects that people can take risks on without having investors to answer to.

nah I don't mean take over like a handful of indie studios replace AAA just to become the same thing, but for AAA to go away or get more obscure, and things like indies are given more consideration from word of mouth and stuff. Like, how there is a "before you buy" or "top 10 new games this year" thing, but it's always for a AAA game. yeah there are channels that do this for indies, and even some indies get in with the AAA games sometimes, but it's either extremely niche (like, top 10 indie roguelike deckbuilders) or the "big" indie games that probably have some prominence already from past games, or have some form of publisher/large enough marketing budget
basically what I'm saying is that, I hope that indie games go from niche with outliers finding mainstream success, to how I'd find out about games 10-20 years ago, where it was just some random person suggesting it or a magazine. So, in short, I'm hoping for AAA to be seen by more people as just a money grab doing very little to push the gaming industry forward, and for more people or groups dedicated to finding random good indies and giving them some form of publicity. Like a larger "DIY culture" surrounding indie games.