@nprofile1q... It's not counting the Labor cost those 3 devs put into it. A game dev gets over 100k a year for their job. 3 Devs in one year would be over 300k in Labor alone. They choose to donate that labor to their game. That doesn't mean that cost disappears, only that its not being counted. Let's say it takes 3 years to make a game with 3 devs. That's 900k in Labor already.
They donated their Labor. Are you saying that every Indie studio should have their Devs do the same to be counted as indie?