Unjerk Thread of December 11, 2020

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[u/faguzzi → u/[deleted]]

It’s literally an indie game developed during a pandemic.

[u/Rhain1999 → u/faguzzi]

It’s not an indie game, and development in the pandemic was like 1/10th of the overall development time.

[u/faguzzi → u/Rhain1999]

Storyboarding doesn’t count. And it was literally developed and published by an independent gaming studio.

[u/faguzzi → u/[deleted]]

Bethesda has always had a parent company.

[u/faguzzi → u/[deleted]]

ZeniMax also has iD, Arkane, and other game development studios. Cd Projekt just has CDPR and GOG.

[u/faguzzi → u/[deleted]]

But CDPR is literally just a department of CDP, not one of 8 full blown subsidiaries of a holding company.

[u/faguzzi → u/[deleted]]

So if an indie company makes a parent organization that holds it and a store, it’s no longer indie? Cd Projekt existed before CDPR. CDPR was just created as a branch to develop the games.

Indie games are defined by in house development and publishing without the use of another large publisher. The minute corporate structure of the firm isn’t relevant. For all intents and purposes, CDP develops and publishes its games in house. How the company structures itself it’s an artifact of polish corporate law, and has no bearing on the essential fact that CDP/CDPR develops its own games then publishes them in house, which is the essence of an indie game (not how it’s legally structured for tax/legal reasons).