Why Bundles and Steam Sales Aren't Good for Most Indies

Re:Why Bundles and Steam Sales Aren't Good for Most Indies by WalterSear on Thursday November 24, 2011 @11:53AM (#3274796)

The humble bundles and steam sales got me back into gaming, and moreover, into buying instead of stealing. And into sending games as presents.

But, apparently, my attention and money is no good to indie game developers because I'm not willing to shovel $50 bills at them.

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Re:Why Bundles and Steam Sales Aren't Good for Most Indies by nestlequ1k on Thursday November 24, 2011 @01:41PM (#3275072)

It's not. Did you read the article? Only a small slice of the very small amount of money goes back to the game developers, and then those developers are the top 1%. The rest get very little.

I think his point has merit, that its limiting the amount of good games that come out. It's just too risky of a proposition to develop an indie game.

It's all very interesting, but personally I don't care. It's games... these efforts aren't terribly useful to society. They should live and be well, but we don't need to be all that concerned about "saving the poor indie game developers". These people could easily make tons of money developing other things, but they choose to pursue their dream of game development. They don't need to be coddled.

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Re:Why Bundles and Steam Sales Aren't Good for Most Indies by ido on Thursday November 24, 2011 @02:17PM (#3275159)

    personally I don't care. It's games... 
    these efforts aren't terribly useful to society.

I disagree- unless you think movies, music, books and art also aren't terribly useful to society?

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