Comment on Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025

ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  and considering that there were over 120k games released on steam as of 2025 😵‍💫

  game development is not the goldmine some think it is

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  • CMLVI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I feel like you’d have to control for the obvious asset flips or just random, I guess, spam games thrown out on a daily basis. I don’t think it’d move the needle that much tho

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    • 123@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Then you’d also need to remove already successful “evergreen” titles in that case which might land you back into the same. Not a lot of money for new games.

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      • CMLVI@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        True. Gaming landscape feels weird rn, looking at it from current standing. Tough sledding for aspiring devs. I’m also right about that age where nostalgia tends to make everything new look a bit less shiny, so I may be choosing not to see the best current offerings.

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  • onion_dude@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And somehow that’s actually better odds than getting a good job after university 1.2m applicants for 17k graduates

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• doublah@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In the US maybe, $100k is several years wages in many countries.

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  • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ok… Most of those are probably American made games. And even if it’s 3 devs, that’s not enough to keep most studios open, even tiny ones.

    The point was it’s not a lot.

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