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Dot com was a bubble because you could call your company anything with a “dot com” on the end and get funding for it without a business strategy. Indie games never got that treatment.

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Well I guess because you can’t really invest… even without funding you have tons of un strategy on indiegala

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And without the investment angle, there’s no bubble.

A bubble isn’t “they’re really popular right now, and there’s a whole bunch of them popping up”. That’s a fad. A trend.

A bubble is always in reference to investments. It’s a pump-and-dump scheme at the level of the whole economy. The housing bubble isn’t because there’s a glut of houses on the market, it’s because people are trying to market houses as an investment opportunity for market squatters and landlords.

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Yeah, I’m just saying that I don’t understand the sustainability argument

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