i mean, I hated paolini's inheritance "trilogy", as well as a bunch of other books that they published, but that doesn't mean I hate everything published by Randomhouse. for that matter, it was this kind of idiocy that helped kill POTBS, because they decided to use SoE as their distributor in order to be better able to reach their target audience, except that a bunch of people saw that they were associated with SoE, they spread a bunch of idiotic half truths about the game and helped undermine it from its beginning.
Its all very well and good to demand that all Indies be self published, but thats a losing proposition. distribution and advertisement are not easy things. mojang had a great hit with minecraft, and they got amazingly lucky with all the word of mouth that they recieved from all over the internet, but there are dozens of indie games that are well made, but shrivel up and die because they don't have the funds or the word of mouth to make it big.
mojang is the super indie, and they're not even indie any more, they're turning into a bigger developer, what with them making new games like scrolls under the mojang cover, look at their recent hires, and their recent expansions.
for that matter, there seems to be no complaints about steam being used to distribute all of the bundles, never mind that its pretty much owned by valve, and that its used by all of the major publishers that seem to be hated.
