Rachael wrote:hardcore_gamer wrote:To be honest, I am kind off annoyed by this recent trend of people trying to sell for money what in the past would almost always have simply been released as a free mod. Like, we have all of these young devs probably aged between 15-25 making something and then just dumping it unto digital market places such as steam. It's not helpful to the indie games industry at all. Now, does this mean there is anything wrong with making content like this? Hell no, in fact I love making stuff like this myself. But the difference is that I don't try to sell it, I just release it for the community to enjoy.
I am going to have to disagree with you, and it almost sounds like you're more upset with people being successful at something and making a living off of it, regardless of their skill level, and you being trepid at attempting it yourself.
Ion Maiden is a community project that, by your standards, probably should be released as a mod. However, I personally
see nothing wrong with someone making their hobby into a job. A life doing what you hate (i.e. "work") is a life that's not well lived - period. You may try to espouse that working at some desk job from 9 to 5 is the only way to go, but that kind of thinking is short sighted, ancient, and honestly really fucking dumb. I am sorry, but it is, and there's a reason why that kind of job setting is getting less and less common these days.
This is how people on Youtube get popular and become successful. They fill a niche that major corporations with huge marketing budgets refuse to touch. And it's the only way to increase the quality of the utter steaming shite coming out of the poop hole of the gaming "industry" (which, to be honest, about 90% of indie projects, with the notable exception of asset flips, regardless of quality, somehow manage to beat that, when visual effects are not considered).
You are no arbitrator to decide what people buy or do for a living. And people want to buy stuff that's not made by EA, Activision, Ubisoft, or any of the other shite-holes that have permeated the market with their "live services" and other pay-to-play crap that requires you to spend more than the base price of a game to have a proper gaming experience.
So this trend is here to stay. I am sorry, but some people don't like PUBG. Some people don't like Call of Doody 498494869877 or whatever fucking number they're at in the series. Some people don't like FIFA 2018 or whatever is going to continue having loot boxes shoved into it despite EA having "learned its lesson from Star Wars". If YOU don't like it - there's one thing you can do - DON'T BUY IT! But I will not brook you trying to tell people not to spend their money on what is honest to god better material than pretty much any triple-A dev comes up with.