[starving_autist]

I think games cost a lot of money to make profitable (i.e. appeal to the standards of most people).

Even if all professional game designers/programmers/artists stopped getting paid and quit, people would still make and enjoy free games, and they would probably much better than whatever generic crap is greenlight by publishers.

So I don't believe that the artistic value nor the quality of video games depends on the success video game industry, In fact I would say they are orthagonal to each other.

[jfkebwjsbx]

I do believe the best indie games are way better than the best AAA games (gameplay wise). But all of them are commercial. In other words, there is no non-commercial game that I would consider the best at anything.

There are mods that are better than the games themselves, but making the base game is what costs money and nobody does for free.