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latest scam in gaming: AAA games pretending to be indie games
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Date: January 20th, 2026 4:21 PM Author: adulterous piazza keepsake machete (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824371&forum_id=2~#49604235) |
Date: February 2nd, 2026 11:36 AM Author: floppy tripping ladyboy generalized bond Yeah it’s wild and they pretty much got away with it too. Marketers hyped up Indies, using Ubisoft as a sacrificial lamb.
Try telling them Expedition 33 is a fake indie and they’re like “30-person team, champ. The State of AAA 😏.” Like what the fuck are they talking about. That’s the same team size as Metroid Prime 1, which also had a Publisher. Just like them. What the fuck. These Losers are just captivated by the narrative and want a Reprieve from the State of AAA.
This is a situation where even if E33 won GOTY and even if it were nominated in the indie category that the voters should’ve just voted for Silksong imho. |
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Date: February 2nd, 2026 8:11 PM Author: sapphire exciting boistinker giraffe I’ll grant you all that but E33 had a far lower budget than any AAA game. I think words should mean things imo so I don’t like when people just arbitrarily ascribe “indie” to things that maybe are, maybe aren’t. According to you it should only be used if the dev team is “small” and they all have unkempt beards or something. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824371&forum_id=2~#49642696) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2026 9:26 PM Author: floppy tripping ladyboy generalized bond are you trying to argue that it's indie? It's not just the "budget" or the "size of the team." it has a fuckin' publisher. what a joke. https://i.redd.it/23iahwl8x6hg1.png (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824371&forum_id=2~#49642835) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 6:43 PM Author: sapphire exciting boistinker giraffe Yeah that’s what I don’t get. Can there be “indie” publishers? What even is indie then? Discuss. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824371&forum_id=2~#49644721) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 7:51 PM Author: floppy tripping ladyboy generalized bond I literally still can't parse what redditors are talking about with this. Expedition 33's publisher is an indie publisher ffs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_Interactive
the same thing exists in Film. Fox Searchlight et al. The Films they distribute are "independently" conceived but for fuck's sake no one's like "The Full Monty, a triumph. Indie Films such as this offer a reprieve. The Descendants, a tour de force. AAA is on notice."
gamers are just cringe af, that's the problem. that's the fundamental problem. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:07 PM Author: sapphire exciting boistinker giraffe Yes, gamers as a whole are very embarrassing imo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824371&forum_id=2~#49644927) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:18 PM Author: floppy tripping ladyboy generalized bond I made a thread on this and everyone ignored it
first of all, digital has been GREAT for making the "hobby" more accessible. PC gamers figured this out ages ago. There have definitely been times where I went into a gamestop, and was just like, "you know what? fuck this. never again." Just because of the phenotypes.
Second there is all sorts of weird vernacular
Gameplay: This is not a word.
Going Gold: Obsolete ceremony. It referred to pressing physical discs, which barely matters anymore, yet it’s still announced like a rite of passage. Day-one patches immediately invalidate it. Corporate nostalgia masquerading as legitimacy.
AAA: Borrowed from credit ratings, not culture. Or maybe they just started saying AAA because they wanted high scores idk.
Mechanics: Trotted out when “gameplay” has been said too many times, not when anything mechanical is actually being discussed.
Engine: Way overused bc gamers don't understand Engineering. When someone says “the engine does X,” they usually mean “some gameplay system we bolted on in blueprints/Lua/C#.” They aren’t Engineers, they don’t know where the engine boundary actually is, and they use the word because it sounds hard, adult, and infrastructural.
Calling games “Titles”: The most revealing tell. They can’t say game because “gaming” sounds unserious, so they reach for a sterile catalog term. Books have titles, but no one calls them “Titles.” Films have titles, but no one says “I watched three Titles last night.” It’s linguistic shame; trying to sound adult by sanding off the word that actually names the thing.
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:23 PM Author: sapphire exciting boistinker giraffe It’s so funny when they respond to a trailer with “where’s the fuckin Gameplay 😡” even if it is all rendered in-engine and just uses the free camera to frame cinematic moments. If it’s a Western game we already know exactly what the Gameplay is - the Same. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824371&forum_id=2~#49644968) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:33 PM Author: floppy tripping ladyboy generalized bond I can see why they're like that though. Sometimes these trailers are total bullshit like Elder Scrolls 6's teaser. Sometimes they're outsourced to random 3d modelers and don't use in-game Assets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824371&forum_id=2~#49644995) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 7:51 PM Author: floppy tripping ladyboy generalized bond https://www.reddit.com/r/expedition33/comments/1pn69by/for_everyone_thats_crying_about_expedition_33_not/
"Balatro had a publisher. Pacific Drive had a publisher. Sifu had a publisher. All these games got nominated for GOTY/Indie GOTY. Guess what. Pacific Drive, Sifu and Expedition 33 were both published by the same company: Kepler Interactive. Yet no one debates if these other games are indie or not. 😏" |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:37 PM Author: sapphire exciting boistinker giraffe Athuanar • 2mo ago It wasn't always ill defined. It was accurate when the term was first coined. The trouble is that the indie scene in games has evolved to become an actual major segment of the industry now, so it's evolved its own compartmentalization with publishing and such.
The meaning of 'indie' has evolved but people are pedants and still try to use the original definition to gatekeep.
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:41 PM Author: floppy tripping ladyboy generalized bond Expedition 33 is literally NOTHING. It's just a Game. It's an 00s-style western game where the dev is 30 slaves you've never heard of and the publisher is a name you know. they should just say it has "6th gen western vibes."
Actual Indies should have an actual name that addresses the fact that they don't have cutting-edge 3D graphics. A name like "Lo-fi" or something would fit. No one has ever thought of this. |
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Date: February 2nd, 2026 8:37 PM Author: rough-skinned 180 hissy fit stage Today I played the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 mobile port and got the light blue Chaos Emerald in the secret special stage after ten or so tries. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824371&forum_id=2~#49642767) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2026 9:56 PM Author: floppy tripping ladyboy generalized bond if these western faggots were around in the 90s, and would call Ecco the Dolphin Indie, despite it being published by Sega. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824371&forum_id=2~#49642880) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 7:53 PM Author: pale fragrant travel guidebook this has been a scam for like 30 years though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824371&forum_id=2~#49644884) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:02 PM Author: floppy tripping ladyboy generalized bond Whoa, you're right. Earthworm Jim had the Cachet of an Indie Title but it was ackshually PUBLISHED by Playmates Entertainment. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824371&forum_id=2~#49644911) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 5:41 PM Author: cowgod (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824371&forum_id=2~#50024036) |