Comment on In a week dominated by Silksong and Borderlands, co-op roguelike Shape of Dreams still managed to launch on Steam as an instant top-seller

• Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I get what kind of a game it is. I don't get how that is so popular. We're talking about player counts that not even Destiny 2 could reach. The only rational conclusion I came come to is that those numbers have to be botted.

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  • Localhorst86@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    my guess is that a lot of people let the game idle in the background to farm items, that’s why it’s so “popular”. It’s not “active players”, it’s just a large number of people farming items in the hopes to get one they can sell for a larger sum.
    Afaik it has been in the top charts for over a year.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gaming GabeN’s system

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought steam banned those kind of games.

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  • Localhorst86@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can’t find any info about a blanket ban on idle/clicker games, and quite frankly, I don’t see why valve would ban them.

    For them, it’s free money:

    1. the developer has to pay a flat fee for the game to appear on the storefront
    2. the developer has to pay an additional fee to enable community items
    3. both the developer as well as valve receive a percentage cut of the sale price in the community marketplace

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