Indie publishers, that are not also dev studios, are inherently shitty. Just like middle management, they’re the interface with the monied interest of investors and banks. Like all class traitors who produce nothing, they exist to only seek rent and exploit labor.
Indie publishers publish games other people made I assume? Is it like the music industry where they try to give developers bad deals?
Indie publishers that don’t also develop do this yeah. A lot of smaller publishers are also game dev studios so they tend to understand how to benefit both parties. I’m speaking specifically of downstream publishers that work under the umbrella of say Microsoft.
A better analogy would be the kinds of deals you get from film studio production companies like Weinstein Productions.
…Aren’t most indie games self-published anyways?
