>>31979075Indies are always a bigger risk because it's just a single person that can, if they will, throw their entire reputation into the wind. There's nothing and nobody stopping them from doing it, they have no backing, no guarantors, they have no support for their honor. You are placing your entire reputation behind a single person you do not even know.
A company on the other hand is an entity composed of multiple people, so for it to be completely destroyed in terms of reputation, every single individual in it would have to go insane simultaneously and shit things up. Even if the owner goes mad and shits things up, the company as an entity, composed of many people, will still retain reputation outside of that individuals behavior, and that's what truly matters. Since the artist is bound to the company and not any single individuals inside of it, it's hardly even possible for the artist's honor to be sullied through it. At least so long as it's not some obvious criminal one.
