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The indie scene is a endless garbage dump of low quality low effort gimmicky half broken copy cat incomplete shovel wear.
To you ease of access for aspiring indie devs is a good thing, one that probably means more content to choose from. To me the lower barrier of entry just means more trash and outright scams from people trying to make a quick buck. RPG maker for example has made it incredibly easy for anyone to make a game, but of the hundreds of games made with it, less than a dozen are any good. Less we forget, the lack of quality control was what crashed the industry the first time around. I don't think it will outright crash again, but instead have a slow prolonged decline to the point of stagnation.
The way things are heading, and I don't expect anyone to agree with me on this, but I believe all these big studios consuming each other while monopolizing the industry and releasing less and less content as they do so, This will be in part due to an increasing focus on A: bigger, better looking, grander scale "epic" console selling games that cost a fortune to produce, and B: "life style" games that are designed to be played regularly by consumers day in day out (see fortnight pugb overwatch ect). mid size studios that are willing and able to take risks on new ideas with a decent enough budget to realize those ideas, will be gone, consumed and destroyed by larger companies who have no interest in anything that isn't part of or at least similar to already proven financially successful. In the face of this, The indie scene will likely become vastly more vibrate and populated. So much so it will be something of the wild west of gaming, where anything worthwhile will likely be lost in floods of poorly written VNs, generic unity and rpg games full of stock materials, and countless variations of whatever is trending (as seen now with the countless minecraft clones on the market for example). Occasionally people who rummage around in this trash (such as reviewers and vtubers) will find half way decent games which will then have a short lived explosion of popularity before people return to their "life style" games as they wait for the next big hit game that they can't be bothered to find themselves, as these games will likely not be very long anyway. My vision of the gaming landscape in the years to come is one of a bleak landfill that the masses rummage through, until occasionally someone yells "I found one!" and everyone rushes over to "get it while it's hot". This as dump trucks routinely show up to pour out fresh heaps of indie games onto the mountains of trash to continue the cycle. The industry wont die though, the masses are too desperate for entertainment to distract themselves from their miserable poverty stricken lives in a world where the likes of amazon and walmart have done to jobs what EA and Microsoft have done to games.
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