Indie Slop, the next AI bungle

Indie Sunday on the Games subReddit reminds me of the reason I am not a huge fan of indies. I have loved games by indies, but the general community is a mine field. A lot of uninspired, derivative ideas that want to mash things that work in ways that don't work. For every Ball X Pit or Wizorb, there are 10 block breaker games that didn't quite matter enough.

The only reason we aren't drowning in these games is because indie developers dont launch most of the games they talk about making. But AI-assisted development could change that, in a horrible Early-Access indie avalanche way. If Steam is a discoverability mess now, just wait.

This all culminates in the reason all-digital will always fail. There is no quality control, no buyers, no drive to keep the consumers safe from bad producers. Consumers will keep getting burned until they are burned-out and retreat to the safety of Minecraft or Fortnite. It is a bad business model that we have seen before.