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Is this where stores like Steam can really help indies?

• minimaxir 12y ago
  Even with Steam Greenlight, indie developers still get a lot of exposure and have a lot of incentive from working with publshers.
  • sillysaurus3 12y ago
    What incentive is there to work with publishers?
    • flohofwoe 12y ago
      Publishers serve mainly as a bank, paying the developer an advance which usually goes 100% into salaries. But traditionally have been doing marketing, and some production tasks like testing or localization, sometimes they have more influence over platform owners (Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, ...)