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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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[–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Is it luck though?

It's hard to make a game. It's much harder to make a good game that pushes all the right buttons.

I play some of these games that probably make well under average, and there are very distinct reasons why they didn't take off.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I believe that there’s always luck involved to some extent. You have a very valid point, though, if a game is THAT good, at some point success becomes the only plausible outcome. So definitely not a hill I would die on.

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