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Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything (www.gamesradar.com)
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[+] [S] -21 points 2 months ago (1 child)

So what?

So if you release a game on steam not only you are promoting a centralized closed platform owned by a billionare but there's a good chance you are not getting much in return.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago*

    Good chance if your game didn’t do well on Steam that you didn’t make a good game that has high product-market fit in the first place and didn’t promote it properly. We are now in an era where indie devs have become millionaires from their $15 games. And I’m not just talking about Edmund McMillen and Johnathan Blow. Go back to the days of brick and mortar retail and that was nigh impossible when a small studio would earn pennies on the dollar for every sold unit.

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