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Mnementh said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Also, many genres are dead outside of indies, and some are are even hard to find among those. Try finding turn-based wargames, for instance. Outside of Panzer Corps, which is basically just an updated Panzer General II, there just ain't much, and especially not much of any quality.

Yeah, but that's kinda the point. Back in the day there were not much indies if at all. There is much more variety in the gaming industry - once we stop looking only at the big ones.

And this is where you're wrong. They just gained much more prominence, but back then, there were also tons of indie developers. The reason the indies gained so much more prominence over the last 15 years is because they continued making games with genres/themes that the publishers didn't want to touch anymore as they got more and more risk-averse. But that doesn't mean they just emerged back then, what changed is their visibility.