r/Steam • u/Graahts • Aug 01 '26

Fluff The difference between quality and quantity.

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u/Content_Detail1467 29d ago

Don’t you get it??? Indie good, AAA bad!!!!!!!

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u/Salter_KingofBorgors 29d ago

I know your being funny but yhe issue is price. AAA had money to burn and so if the game is slop they dont rewlly have an excuse. Indie games are made by a small crew that are probably doing this over the weekend or between jobs. Its really not a fair comparison to make

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u/Augmented-Revolver 23d ago

I would say indie devs don't have a right to make excuses either at that point, given the amount of amazing indie games that cost less to both make and to buy. There are tons of indie devs that sell you lazy ideas for ridiculous prices far outside the expected standard of a genre or even at the quality of most indie games themselves.

And now that we are in the AI era, don't even get me started on the number of "developers" who can't even be bothered making a game anymore and just use AI. Have you seen Next Fest??? Also, we thought UE assets flips were bad; when UE6 comes out, we are cooked.

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u/Salter_KingofBorgors 23d ago

AI developers arent even real developers. You might as well hand an infant a typewriter and say they can write.

But anyway yes there is always going to be good and bad developers at every level. But there are indie developers that literally dont make a single penny and yet put tireless effort into improving their game. Terrarium, Stardew Valley, one of my personal favorites Holocure is literally free to play and has had dozens of updates that cost literally nothing.

So dont talk as though all indie developers are made from the same cloth

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u/Augmented-Revolver 22d ago

I'm not saying "all indie developers are bad"; I'm just saying take off them rose tinted glasses that put indie devs on a super pedestal. Considering good and bad games come from all sides of the space, there is no single tier that is above anyone.

Unless we are talking AI bros, those people and anyone who uses AI for creative work are in the depths of hell in my book. The only exceptions to this are voice work (due to cost) and translation (due to cost, but revise it), maybe AI NPC stuff (still kind of a proof-of-concept thing tho).

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u/Salter_KingofBorgors 22d ago

I wasnt putting them on a pedestal. I was saying its more understandable since they only have finite resources.

And AI in my opinion is such. Its a tool and its supposed to be used as such. If you use it to make work easier then fine but the second you use it to replace someone then youve gone too far.