Stardock - From Indie Developer to Publisher

Posted by Zonk on Monday January 30, 2006 @07:37AM from the growing-up-gamer dept.

Consumed_Crustacean writes "GameDaily has an interview with Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock Systems. In the interview, they discuss Stardock's transition from a smallish independent developer to a full-blown publisher (both retail and online). Of particular interest is the discussion on DRM and their online distribution, which Wardell opposes, and said 'Software piracy is something that tends to be overblown. The question for us boils down to the number of sales lost due to piracy versus the number of sales lost due to people not wanting to be inconvenienced.'"

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Indies by Arandir · 2006-01-30 08:06 · Score: 3, Interesting

What the difference between an indie developer and a publisher? At what point does one stop being a independent.

p.s. One reason I ask is that a friend's rpg game company, with all of three employees, is not considered "indie", and thus finds their products frequently panned and derided on indie-oriented forums.

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