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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

13 hours ago by brachiosaurus to c/games

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Over 8,000 paid games analyzed never received a single Steam review
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HubertManne 17 points 13 hours ago

Is this presented as a bad thing?

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FiniteBanjo 3 points 12 hours ago

It's certainly not a good thing for startup indie devs putting months of work into a project.

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HubertManne -2 points 12 hours ago

its indicative of accessibility for startups. the way a company would change the metric is not gatekeep the smallfry.

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FiniteBanjo 4 points 12 hours ago

Or promote new and interesting works as opposed to maximising profit by promoting established studios and games with already high levels of prestige.

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ampersandrew 1 point 8 hours ago

The reality is they want you to find those other games to maximize profit, which is where all of their work into recommendation engines and personalized release calendars has gone. But it's not going to convince millions of people who want to play NBA 2K that they should buy the latest indie game instead.

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FiniteBanjo 2 points 8 hours ago

And yet every time a Triple A title drops it gets a custom banner on the store page and a guaranteed panel on the recommendation window, even when those indie titles have outsold them in the past without preferential treatment.

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raze2012 1 point 5 hours ago

Networking is always important. And those AAA studios probably have dedicated lines of support to Valve that can open up such deals way more easily than an indie trying to email support.

Valve also does try to highlight some successful indies, but that's a small slice of indie pie. While every other AAA studio is that direct line gained from events, existing networks reaching out, etc.

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FiniteBanjo 1 point 5 hours ago

Yes, I'm aware that what Valve does maximises profit, but it's a trade-off with quality as we've seen the larger studios are more likely to be cashgrabs than even some asset flips.

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raze2012 1 point 5 hours ago

I don't think we disagree. I'm just talking about how the sausage is made. Squeaky wheels get the grease.

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