Today’s WTF: Bungie, The Last Great Indie Developer?

Bungie LogoOh man, Activision’s Bobby Kotick is going to earn himself some new fans after this one.

For what seems like the hundredth time in just a few months, Kotick’s got a new quote circulating on the Web tubes, this one just as absurd or more so than the last few. At the recent America Merrill Lynch Media, Comms and Entertainment conference, the corporate chief had this to say about the world of indie game development. Brace yourselves.

Bungie are a very unusual company… They’re probably the last remaining high quality independent developer. It’s very hard to [pauses]… that has sort of has institutional skills and capabilities. And they’re a real company.

There’s more to it than that, but it seems to me calling Bungie “the last remaining high quality developer” packs with it a slight to quite a large list of excellent indie devs out there. You know, guys like Sucker Punch, Valve, Level-5, Insomniac, etc. I mean, it’s one thing to express the opinion that Bungie is the greatest independent developer left. But to say that there are no other high quality developers seems like a bit of a stretch.

Obviously, this is more horn tooting on the part of Bungie and Activision’s new distribution deal, but still, this is a bit heavy. So go ahead and share your feelings about this new WTF from Kotick. Also, who do you think is the best indie developer out there? Go!

Source – CVG

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5 thoughts on “Today’s WTF: Bungie, The Last Great Indie Developer?”

  1. What is this I don’t even…

    Besides the fact that the quote sounded like it had bad grammar, Kotick proves even more that he is a moron. A flat-out whippahsnappah.

    As for Indie developers, I don’t really know many Indie devs nor play too many Indie games, but I have to say that I have a soft-spot for Team Insurgency, the guys behind the HL2 mod Insurgency. But there really are a lot of really talented indie devs that need more recognition. I demand to see Indie branches for publishers (basically like 20 Century Fox Spotlight and such) which can invest in Indie games and give them the publicity and technical support they need. The publishers can get money off of the popular Indie games, and maybe not have to spend as much money on the games that fail, since they wouldn’t have to provide the Indie devs with as much money as a big development studio. This would help new game designers get a good start and also improve gaming by supporting smaller games with good ideas.

  2. [quote comment=”13555″]What is this I don’t even…

    Besides the fact that the quote sounded like it had bad grammar, Kotick proves even more that he is a moron. A flat-out whippahsnappah.

    As for Indie developers, I don’t really know many Indie devs nor play too many Indie games, but I have to say that I have a soft-spot for Team Insurgency, the guys behind the HL2 mod Insurgency. But there really are a lot of really talented indie devs that need more recognition. I demand to see Indie branches for publishers (basically like 20 Century Fox Spotlight and such) which can invest in Indie games and give them the publicity and technical support they need. The publishers can get money off of the popular Indie games, and maybe not have to spend as much money on the games that fail, since they wouldn’t have to provide the Indie devs with as much money as a big development studio. This would help new game designers get a good start and also improve gaming by supporting smaller games with good ideas.[/quote]
    He’s not talking Indie devs, he means independent ones, as in ones not owned by a publisher, Valve being one.

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