In his blog, Phil Steinmeyer’s talks about the fact that portals are good. Those discussion are fun to read as always, but I want to talk more to another aspect of the “problem”. How can you define yourself indie when you’re using a portal? Everyone who worked with them, knows that they often require changes to your product (not all portals do that, but many yes). Isn’t this falling back to the old “boss that tells you what to do” idea?

You can tell me “yes I just change some minor things and earn 50k euros for that” – well is fine, I don’t talk about the money, but about the principle and the fact that you shouldn’t define yourself anymore “indie”. You’re just another small development team, skilled as you want, but that have to take orders from someone… 😉

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