Comment by CathedralBorrow

6 years ago

You speak as if you know his business a lot better than a couple of blog posts can convey. What's the basis for your business advice?

I'm not claiming to provide business advice. The source of my understanding of the articles, and the business described therein, is the same as the basis for absolutely anybody else's extrapolation, both in his defence and against: the articles themselves.

It seems to me that if, in 25 years, this guy is quibbling over whether he has the money or not to improve the look of his assets, something repeatedly said not to necessarily have any cost at all, whilst other small indie development teams (even those with only one or two people) manage to make breakthrough hits that reach as wide as possible an audience and look good, sometimes on multiple platforms including console, there's plenty to say that perhaps any business advice one could extrapolate is not the gold standard that his defenders are holding it up to be.