En av verdens mest profilerte spillskapere og mannen bak spill som Dungeon Keeper, Black & White og Fable, nemlig Peter Molyneux, har sagt hva han tenker om indiebølgen som skyller over oss for tiden. Han mener ganske enkelt at dette er en forbipasserende trend som kommer til å ebbe ut igjen.
I et intervju med CVG på spillmessen GDC sammenlignet han den regjerende trenden med spill som lages uten utgiver med punkmusikkens storhetstid, samt 80-tallets bølge av hjemmeutvikling som sparket igang hans egen karriere.
"These things go in cycles," berättade han för CVG. "What I'd say is, enjoy this time, because it won't last."
"Don't think we're going to be all indies for the next five years - these things go in cycles, just like in the music business. You have a time where punk is big, and then you have times like now where everything is manufactured."
"Enjoy this time, because inevitably it will only last a short period."
"Here's the thing: walk through any hotel lobby at GDC and look at people's name badges. This morning at breakfast I saw three angel investors talking to indies. They're saying, 'take my money! I want to invest in your company!"
"But what those indie companies don't realise is that they'll then have to have board meetings, and in those meetings they'll be told, 'no, you shouldn't do that - look at this game that's making money'."