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All this says is that large game studios don't see anything but money.
Game development should be about making the best product you can. It isn't about getting paid 200 million for "development" costs.
Indies know this, and large game companies are A F R A I D. So when someone makes a product that's good, and it threatens their model of minimal effort/maximum profit, they start making hitpieces like this.
Customers do not decide what games you make. Quit game development if you think we set the bar.
Customers choose the best product for their time, and I'm sorry, if that's Baldur's Gate 3 tier standards, and you can't as an AAA studio with 10000 employees make as good of a product, that's on your lack of skill. Stop crying, git gud.
The author is the creator of Hypnospace Outlaw. He's an indie game dev, not a representative of a large game company.
Didn't Jay Tholen create Hypnospace? That isn't the author's name unless I'm missing something obvious.
Xalavier Nelson Jr. wrote it, Jay was lead designer.
https://www.hypnospace.net/team.html
Gotcha, thanks for the info!
Yes, I know a lot of indie devs are also in this conversation, but their fears are also misplaced. Indie devs already get a free pass on expectations, because more often than not, it's a team of <10 people. So you don't hold them to the same standards as large game companies.