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Indie Game Devs Should Give Up
Red Herring is covering an indie game panel held this week at E3, at which Warren Spector essentially told independent game developers to just give up now. From the article: "Fellow panelists echoed Mr. Spector's sentiments, telling a room full of game company representatives, industry consultants, and members of the media that the path to entering the $7-billion market is fraught with more pitfalls than Tomb Raider. While opportunities do exist, small companies and startups find it difficult to secure funding and distribution for their work. They often have to deal with past projects that pigeonhole them and potentially hamper future expansion."
If you actually RTFA, you see that he's specifically saying that indies shouldn't try to work with existing publishers like EA. He's not telling indies to give up entirely.
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Um... Ultima Underground 1 and 2, System Shock 1 and 2, Theif 1 and 2 and 3(?), Deus Ex.
This guy has deserved his reputation and by no means did his games suck. Hell, im not even sure he was involved in the Wing Commander games, that was Chris Roberts.