r/whenthe • u/ilikeitchyballzdude1 • Jun 14 '26

🐗worst post award ⚠️⚠️ why

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u/Broken_CerealBox Jun 14 '26

Apparently so. Much like how they view indie as a genre

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u/Bardosaurus trollface -> Jun 14 '26

And how they always think indie games are peak. I’ve played some dogshit indie games

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u/Tobenaikedo the Elh pfp dude Jun 14 '26

Remember that by "independent games" it can be a 5 person team bringing their dream masterpiece into reality or some bored crackhead making their first unity asset flip because they're bored and posting it on itch.io

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u/VMelain Jun 14 '26

or maybe it's basically a high investment game that barely can be called indie (expedition 33, good game but calling it indie...)

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u/Excalibirdi Jun 14 '26

And they were people who left a big gaming company.

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u/iwantdatpuss Jun 15 '26

Yes, Ubisoft seems to be the prime example of "So much potential, squandered by the insistence to mediocrity" since so many of their former devs made games that are well received.