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

FirmDistribution@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• commander@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t think the 5863 is limited to games released in 2025

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  • leoj@piefed.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    that changes the math… a bit…

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• ViatorOmnium@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  100k is not enough to pay even a single full time dev, so I wouldn’t call this the success threshold.

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  • Starski@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How? That’s over double what I make in a year, living in America too. Are game devs required to like eat something super expensive every day?

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    • ViatorOmnium@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Because despite all the LLM slopaganda the laws of supply and demand give software engineers some leverage over prospective employers.

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      • Starski@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I see there was a fundamental misunderstanding, you see I thought you meant that 100k wasn’t enough for someone to survive on, you simply meant that Software engineers have high standards.

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