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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

7 hours ago by ルルㇲ to c/pcgaming

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Over 8,000 paid games analyzed never received a single Steam review
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thingsiplay 11 points 6 hours ago

Their analysis comes with the usual Steam research caveat: Valve doesn't publish revenue figures, so they're instead reverse-engineered using user reviews as a base that's then multiplied to estimate sales.

I didn't know how unreliable and bad the usual Steam research was. I always thought there must be a bit more sophisticated method of estimating.

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arules 0 points 3 hours ago

I pressume is bigger, ’cause there’s rather more private accounts, accounts that don't make reviews, resellers, keys takedowns, gift card trading, etc..

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thingsiplay 2 points 2 hours ago

Also, the more controversal and problematic a game is, the more reviews will be posted to inform others or to let out frustrations. Therefore some games or type of games will just get more reviews, which does not reflect the real number of sold games or generated money. So its not just about higher or lower numbers, the method of estimation is deeply flawed.

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