The reason is because; the general community aren't the nerds that made gaming fun

Yep. I abandoned r/gaming when I still participated in Reddit. Avoid discord game server lobbies. Have text chat and voip disabled in competitive gaming. Gamers have always been real douches, from game criticism to shitting on other players for any reason whatsoever, so if one wants to enjoy a game it’s best to stay away from the “community” at large and stick with friends or a known group. Community in quotes because there really isn’t one, just mostly a rabble of haters and tryhards mixed in with a lot of people just trying to have some fun.

Which is weird because there were hundreds of thousands of fans of OG Harvest Moon who wished Natsumi would make a SNES like OG harvest moon and they just wouldn't listen. I am so happy Eric Barone made bank and I look forward to The Haunted Chocolatier making bank for him too.

Ok sure. There are for sure games left in the space.

Oh wow "my heart is really in it" so it will work. No. This is survivorship bias. There are a ton of passionate people who turn out a product that is ok or worse and get their milkshake drunk / lose everything.

This is like saying "yeah drop out of college. Bill Gates did it.". You could totally be the next windows or apple or facebook... Or you could actually produce some mid tier thing you're really invested in and not have parents ready to kick in 50k or so and just fail. 🤷

luck has a lot to do with success, people often forget

My friend quit his job and has been making indie games since 2015. It's been 20 10 years and he's made like $40,000 total in the time with all his games combined. His wife pays all the bills. Every time he releases a new game he tells everyone this is the one that'll make him a million bucks. He points to games like Hollowknight, Stardew Valley, Undertale etc as proof.

People forget that Hollow Knight didn't do very well at first, also. It took an excruciatingly long time for it to pick up steam.

This comment sounds like it's discouraging these kind of risks. But I feel like you should almost always take them, because otherwise your life is just hollow.

Yeah but the vast majority of those failed games look bad and are mediocre gameplay wise. Even if they are a true passion project. They don’t come close to the quality of games like Hollow Knight, Dead Cells, Rogue Legacy, Inside or even Pizza Tower. Most sidescrollers (including metroidvanias, rogue likes and souls likes) released on Steam are of low quality because it’s very easy to make a basic game in that genre.

Yes the genre is risky but if you make a very good looking game that stands out with top notch gameplay you increase the odds of success significantly.

Budding indie devs need to realize whether they can make such a game. If not they need to find another genre that is less crowded or a genre with a very high demand, like the horror / liminal space genre those games have a much higher success rate compared to the average platformer.

Depends on their financial position overall. If you live below your means and save up, especially in a professional position, you can offset expenses with passive investment income. Retirement is really just getting to the point where passive income and using up savings can last you until you expect to die.

If you have passive income that covers your bills, then the main difference between working and not working (or doing work without guaranteed income) is that you're not getting ahead as quickly anymore. You're not necessarily even falling behind, though even that state could be maintained for a while depending on how much you have saved and what kind of credit you have access to.

But yeah, if you're living paycheck to paycheck, this isn't an option, you'll have to do the work around your other job.

There is a great Bo Burnham clip where he talks about this.

If take no risk then you guarantee to fail. You just got to take those risks. And if it fails, don't give up. Just get up dust yourself off and try again. Just at different approach.

Thank you for this comment.

I agree. It can be easy to feel disheartened by a shitty comment (or many), and sometimes the bad outnumbers the good. However, it is useful to try to mentally filter out the mass of negativity because many of those are quick, lazy comments that say more about the commenter than the topic at hand.

Even though the sample of comments that you include in your comment are all short comments, I'd be inclined to view those with more weight, because it's just a part of reality that it's far easier to be negative and harmful than to be sincere and enthusiastic. There's more effort and care into those short comments than someone just being negative

i don't see it because I quit the millisecond third party apps did.

It's wild how they show so few replies. Like, the whole point of the site was discussing.

old.reddit.com. Anything that doesn't work on that or is to cumbersome to use on that is not worth engaging in.

I used to use old.reddit.com with Reddit Enhancement Suite to disable CSS

You can still use the old reddit at old(dot)reddit(dot)com

most of them are bot and AI responses or posts.

the bot responses are done by people warming up thier accounts for ban evasion to be exact(OF fans, link farmers), this seperate from the propaganda ones.

one thing reddit REALLY hates is new accounts and old accounts with sudden activity.

Redlib

By avoiding it like the plague. They really did it didn't it? When I used to Google something I was stoked when there was some reddit link in the results and would always go there, now I just die inside a little more when I scroll the results and the only relevants seems to be reddit.

Old.reddit, RES, and an adblocker.

Lol pointless hate isnt limited to reddit.

Or Steam, for that matter.

It's like they're trained or something... like some sort of engine.. that-uh that tanks their thinking...