Because the space game that he's making, and Scrolls, are REALLY advancing the industry compared to what EA are doing. At least EA are making games people want to buy; Notch is just making games he wants to make.

(The appeal of the space game is programming a simulated CPU. That's fun to a vanishingly small percentage of potential buyers. And Scrolls will have never-ending paid DLC.)

The word "indie" is just an excuse for making games with weird gimmicks. We shouldn't be buying games to support indie game makers, we should be buying them because they are good games. You don't get a free pass on quality just because you're not contracted.

Activision(not Blizzard) is destroying gaming.
Everyone tries to follow the CoD Trend and as long as Activision isn't stoping gaming will go down the hill.

People should stop giving EA the fault that Bioware sucks these days.

Indie gamers saving gaming?

Ha × ∞

It would be nice if they didn't really lie...

I think he is massively exaggerating, EA aren't all good, but they do produce a good volume of good quality games

Really Notch, indulging in the good old slagging of your industry counterparts, real mature. Shit like that causes me to dislike developers.

Not sure I follow the criticism of his comments.

It's pretty disgusting that EA are releasing an indie bundle, you know they are basically the biggest game publisher in the world and have the marketing budget and resources that no indie stuidio has, no scruples unlike an indie studio etc.

It's like those food companies that sell food and add "style" to the title and get away with tricking people into believing the food is authetically prepared.

There's nothing indie about EA, quite the opposite. They shouldn't be allowed to even use the word let alone sell a product using it as a marketing ploy.

Or is this guy some cock sucking whinge box and it's more because he has said it, rather than what he is actually saying that is the problem?

I guess you missed the part “I don't even call Mojang indie any more” then. Not that I agree with what he said... But you can hardly call him pretentious. And it is pretty odd that one of the world's biggest publisheres calls a bundle containing games released by them an 'indie bundle', even if those those games' developers aren't that big.

Just thought of this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK-R85qL8Hw

Not that I am a fan of notch (or really know or care about him) what EA is doing seems wrong. They are not an indie in anyway and to portray that they are to customers is lying to their faces. I see that as wrong, regardless of what i may or may not think of notch.

Let me guess, this guy wears black rimmed eye-glasses, lives in coffee shops, and has an Apple logo tattooed on his neck. And what's the difference between an indie game company and a non-indie game company?