April 1 is pretty standard for publicly traded companies. Private companies tend to follow the calender year, and maybe some places do other shit too. But as far as i know Wall Street does the April 1st as the first quarter system and any company publicly trades via the stock market follows what they do.
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The indie producers aren't slipping game publications tens of thousands of dollars for them to be stealth advertising mouthpieces.
Or when they aren't, review codes and access, which I think probably happens more then bribes.
Those are just bribes without the money.
Maybe it's different now, but about a dozen years ago I did a couple years reviewing professionally as a side gig, and indie companies generally didn't send out review codes, or only just to the biggest outlets like IGN and such. Tho most were quite accommodating if you requested one and could flash some credentials.
Yep.
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You remember the old episode of South Park, like season 1, where the independent film festival comes to town and Cartman says all independent films about “Gay Cowboys eating Pudding”? I think the Indie Game scene suffers - unfairly - from a similar reputational issue.
From who? Shallow jackasses that play 1-3 the same games and nothing else? When I last checked, these "professional reviewers", nor certain types of casuals don't represent all of gamers view as a whole on indie. Most people I've met either know what indie games are, or don't have that much of a problem with them. I've met just as many that are not interested, but not to the equivalent of "Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding". Unless you got some people that are still stuck on "All Indie Games are Walking Simulators or Weird Artsy Platformers". Those who have that problem might as well be the fools who enjoy "those type of indie games", considering many AAA games have forced walking sections to be "immersive". When they usually add little to the overall experience, waste the player's time, and become repetitive on repeat playthroughs. Then again, most people won't play a game multiple times, or won't even finish it.
To the people who aren't plugged into this shit from the past twenty years, which as tough a pill to swallow is probably far more of us than are.
I blame that perception on that indie dev movie from years back where they interviewed pretentious types like the creator of Braid.
So people who don't play games at all, or stopped playing games around the 4th, 5th, or 6th generation of consoles. Sounds more like people who don't game at all, than people who do game. They might as well not even bother, and I am sure most of the them don't, with AAA games while they're at it with that attitude.
I don't even remember that movie. Then again I never watched it. I know Phil Fish caused controversy with his high attitude with his game, Fez. That I do remember, but when I last checked, he did not ruin nor represent the entire indie scene. Even many other indie developers called him out on his shit. If public opinion has a perception of pretentiousness on indie games, than they might as well look in the mirror for the AAA games like Last of Us Part II and Red Dead 2. Especially all of the marketing build up and the hype surrounding them. Or those in gaming articles that claimed "This is the first female gaming protagonist to get it right!", with Aloy recently. Apparently, all of the other female characters in gaming don't count cuz fan-service, or from a time when gaming was still consider geeky. Talk about moving the goal post and setting archaic arbitrary limits. That is not true feminism either.
Ya ya. But people will be people and people tend to be dumb.
It's a good thing the high sales, great reputation, and notoriety of a majority of these indie games show how full of shit certain people can be. These indie games are getting better reception than most of your bog standard AAA games, so not all is completely lost.
Much appreciated; same to you. I was not perfect either, but I was at least willing to give most games a try.
It's a hot take somewhere, depending on the group of people that hate the game or its fans.
Probably, depending on how much someone can get emotionally involved with, what are ultimately fictitious characters. Like, if someone can't connect of empathize then I would imagine that the game might either fall flat or not have the same impact.
