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I've never seen this kind of outrage over someone making a game "too cheap" at $20, even that doesnt seem that cheap to me compared to many $5 or even $1-2 games especially when they go on sale. This is a coordinated smear campaign against the Hollow Knight devs by other envious people in the game industry, likely big companies like Ubisoft/EA etc. Remember, they think people buying indie games is a bad thing.
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-deprofessionalization-is-bad-for-video-games
This entire article for example is seething over the "depersonalization" of video games, and was written by a literal Fortune 500 shill. What does that even mean? Well when you remove the language, he's talking about how it's bad that indie devs can dominate the market with small budgets and small teams, while big companies are struggling to get their feet off the ground and losing money left and right. He doesnt even attempt to address why this is happening. But point is, there's a big section of the industry that is INVESTOR BACKED that do not want indie games eating their part of the pie.
