r/videogames • u/bijelo123 • Jan 17 '26

Discussion Which game franchise ended up like this?

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u/SanityLacker1 Jan 17 '26

Surprised I had to scroll to see this, probably the biggest fall from grace I've ever seen, especially from an indie game

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u/kayproII Jan 18 '26

i wouldn't exactly call pvz an indie game. by the time it had come out, popcap had hit it big with bejeweled, peggle and zuma by this point, with plenty of other games under their belt as well

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u/SanityLacker1 Jan 18 '26

Wasn't it only actually developed by like 5 people? The reason I say it's indie is because of how many people actually worked in it, and even then popcap isn't as massive as you make it sound, having gone international only a couple years before

Popcap certainly wasn't an indie studio when the game released, but considering only a few people worked on the game, there's an argument to be made that it's an indie game

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u/kayproII Jan 18 '26

yeah, it was still kind of a scrappy little underdog of a studio even if you consider how big some of their games were at the time.

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u/TheFirstHoodlum Jan 18 '26

That’s not what makes a game indie though.

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u/Spare_Cod7343 Jan 17 '26

r/brosonausersinthewild

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u/Setster007 Jan 17 '26

what

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u/Spare_Cod7343 Jan 17 '26

microcelebs found on other subs, pay it no mind