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Comment on 9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game

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chisel@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

No, you’re wrong. Every wishlist is a guaranteed sale on launch day. When people see that number tick from 0.5937.5 to 1.0, they can’t help themselves. The trick is, they have to see it on launch day in an automated email. Otherwise the sale is lost for good. Literally every true gamer knows this.

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Mangoholic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
No a wishlist is not a guaranted sale. We had 213 wishlist and 12 sales on launch.

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- njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Do you think your game would have sold better if you were better at picking up on sarcasm?
  
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  - reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    clearly that is the reason the game flopped
    
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- Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I think the other guy was being sarcastic.
  
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- Tenkard@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s around 5%, assuming the same performance for 130k it’s 6500 copies
  
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SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Hmm, I’m not convinced. Do it in a deep voice while you draw boxes in ms paint and maybe I’ll believe you.

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