{"id":37106,"date":"2012-05-03T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=37106"},"modified":"2012-05-07T13:29:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T11:29:07","slug":"ea-challenge-the-definition-of-indie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/37106-ea-challenge-the-definition-of-indie","title":{"rendered":"EA challenge the definition of indie"},"content":{"rendered":"

EA<\/a> have just released their ‘Indie Bundle’ on Steam<\/a> (and surprisingly neglected Origin), but some aren’t happy regarding the big publisher’s use of the word ‘indie’.<\/p>\n

The bundle, which features Warp, Shank, Shank 2, Gatling Gears, Death Spank and it’s follow-up Thong of Virtue, has caught the attention of Markus Persson<\/a>, more commonly known as Notch.<\/p>\n

Notch is known as the progenitor of block-building sensation MineCraft, and he is a firm believer in all things indie.<\/p>\n

“EA releases an ‘indie bundle’? That’s not how that works, EA. Stop attempting to ruin everything, you bunch of cynical bastards” Notch tweeted, after hearing news of EA’s bundle.<\/p>\n

“Indies are saving gaming. EA is methodically destroying it” he then tweeted.<\/p>\n

General manager of Easy Studios, who developed Battlefield Heroes and Battlefield Play4Free (which are published by EA) hit back, saying “@notch If that’s your view, then just stop buying EA games. It’s as easy as that.”<\/p>\n

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Seems like the whole issue comes down to a matter of personal definition – does a studio being independent make a game indie? Does being published by a large company turn a small project mainstream?<\/p>\n

Let us know what you think in the MyGaming forum and in the comments section below.<\/p>\n

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Notch reveals new game, we can’t pronounce its name<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

EA wants Minecraft on Origin,\u00a0 thinks Notch needs help<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Notch: Mojang isn\u2019t \u201cindie in the sense that I used to mean it\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Notch thinks EA\u2019s Origin is a good thing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What makes a game indie? Notch chimes in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":37108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4005,3661,813,21,4004,881,333,727],"class_list":["post-37106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-ea-indie-bundle","tag-ea-sa","tag-electronic-arts","tag-headline","tag-indie-bundle","tag-markus-persson","tag-minecraft","tag-notch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37111,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37106\/revisions\/37111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}