If your thinking short-term, then they're not hugely important. They're a nice additions to your PC or console.
Mid to long-term however, they're essential to the survival of the industry.
AAA budget games are becoming too risky to innovate. We have publishers like Ubisoft re-using mechanical formulas in all their games and development of AAA games has become an exercise in ticking all the right boxes to fulfil current mainstream desires.
The industry needs indie developers to innovate, for some to grow and become mid-level, mid-budget developers and some of them to further develop into the AAA studios of tomorrow. We're already beginning to see some indie titles hyped as much as AAA titles e.g. Project CARS, Minecraft (OK, it's already huge) and No Man's Sky.
Without indie games and devs this industry would die.
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