近日，有國外玩家在社交平台上忍不住吐槽起IGN給出滿分10分的新作《混音青春》，矛頭直指遊戲中那貴得離譜的歌曲版權費用。
I think everyone knows this is expensive but i don't think most people understand just how expensive it is A perpetuity license price ranges from $50K to $500K PER SONG, which puts the 26 songs alone at an estimated total of $1.3 million to $13 million. Nearly all the songs in the game are popular hits from the 80s-90s so it's safe to assume they are on the mid-higher end for pricing Mind you that Hollow Knight was made on a total budget of 100,000$-500,000$, that's enough money to buy the perpetuity license for one or two songs in Mixtape If i see ONE person call this shit ''Indie'' imma slap the fuck outta them
這位玩家直言不諱地表示：「要知道《空洞騎士》的總預算只有10萬到50萬美元，但這筆錢在《混音青春》里最多也就夠買一兩首歌的永久授權。如果我再看到有人把這破玩意兒叫『獨立遊戲』，我絕對給他一大嘴巴子。」
這番吐槽迅速引發了大量玩家的共鳴。有人感慨，現在的遊戲動輒標榜「獨立」，實際上背後預算早已堪比3A大作;也有人認為，如果連歌曲授權費都能吃掉幾部《空洞騎士》的預算，那這個「獨立」二字確實值得打上一個巨大的問號。
What’s the new trend of games pretending to be indie just to win more awards recently
They want people to believe its an indie game.... All whille the publisher of that studio is owned by a literall Billionaire.. Imagine if an indie game was published by something owned by Ellon Musk.. The left wouldnt shut up about it. Like always.
當然，也有玩家表示「獨立遊戲」原本指的是由獨立開發者或小團隊製作的遊戲，他們沒有大型發行商的支持，也不受大工作室的創意控制，和遊戲預算無關。
When did they ever use the term money for indie games? Indie originally was games made by independent developers or small teams without major publisher, creative control, or big-studio
There are other reasons to debate if it qualifies as indie or not, nothing to do with how much the developer spent. Indies definition is "not receiving technical or financial support from a large publisher"
