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Manifesto Games is Live

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the in-soviety-russia-jokes-totally-appropriate dept.

Conspiracy_Of_Doves writes "As reported before, Greg Costikyan, author of the Scratchware Manifesto has had a business plan in the works for a while now to do an end run around the PC Gaming industry and get indie games to the masses. Wait no more. Manifesto Games is officially GO! PC gamers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your retail chains!"

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  1. Indie games... by Fyre2012 · · Score: -1, Troll

    for the most part suck.

    When you're competing with the WoW's, FF's and EQ's of the world the little guys don't stand much of a chance.

    It's in the numbers. How many people does it take to develop a successful 'big box' game?

    With independantly driven communities, the users tend to be of the 'anti-esatablishment' type anyway (take indie music as an example), and don't particularly feel like paying for something like this.

    As a business model, it just isn't going to work.

    But I hope i'm wrong and a crew of like 5 folks team up and write the best game ever, but that's rather unlikely.

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