Amazon Debuts Multi-Platform Indie Games Store 67
An anonymous reader writes "Amazon today announced an initiative to help indie game developers promote and sell their games: the Indie Games Store. The dedicated storefront is a new category in Amazon's Digital Video Games Store, designed specifically to help indie games for PC, Mac, and the Web get noticed. The store appears to be US-only, but if you don't live there you should be able to get away with just putting in an American address. Most of the games are Steam downloads, so where you are in the world shouldn't matter too much."
Re:So... redudant to the steam store (Score:4, Insightful)
An indie record label is one that's not owned/controlled by a major corporation. If its records are stocked by HMV, or Amazon, the label is no less independent.
By analogy, if an indie games developer gets their product stocked by a corporate retailer, that doesn't stop them being an indie developer.
Re:Indie? (Score:4, Insightful)
and published by large publishers
I think that's stretching the definition of "indie" unto meaninglessness.
Re:on the contrary (Score:4, Insightful)
Steam guarantees that I'll have those games available to me no matter what happens to my computer
Unless you have the unmitigated gall to object to any change they might decide to shove into their TOS. If that's the case, well then fuck you, peasant. Eat it, or kiss your library goodbye.
Steam is certainly "DRM done right," as so many love to parrot: You do what they say, or they take your games away. That's what DRM is supposed to do, after all.
No mention of linux anywhere (Score:3, Insightful)
It's hardly a multiplatform store when the linux versions of these games are not listed anywhere in sight. What a pointless service.