Anyone else tired of the "indie boom"?

[osed125]

mornelithe said:

osed125 said:

Isn't that one of the reasons the console gaming market crashed in the U.S? hundreds of crappy and shovelware everywhere, of course there is basically no chance of that happening again, the internet is now a thing so the chances of people buying bad games is much much lower than in the 90s...although the internet didn't stop flappy bird for becoming a huge success. 

In any case, like I mentioned in my previous posts, unless you get lucky or have a marketing push, good indie games will be left in the dust, making talented developers less and less motivated to make games (after all people make games for money), and the quick cash grabbers will have a gold mine in their hands, basically what is happening right now in the mobile market.

That assumes people are willing to actually research their purchases, which, from the sounds of it is a problem for many folks here.   There are ratings and comments sections for a reason, and no it's not to troll the opposing fanbase.

That's what I meant with that comment. If you have a 2 star rating on a game on the app store, chances are even if you don't know anything about video games you won't buy it. 

That however still doesn't stop for having a plethora of crappy (and sometimes successful) games available on those platforms. There is alos the thing of popular indie games are already established, just take a look at King (the developers of Candy Crush) to see where I'm going with this. All of their games are successful because they have a marketing push behind them, and they can also pay for ratings in their games, and actual talented indie developers don't even come close to have that luxury, that means their chances of getting their games popular is basically none.