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molten@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Misleading. There is so much slop made from free assets just thrown together or AI programmed messes and such on steam that it should read “little more than 1% of games on steam are worth your time” indie devs get a decent amount of love, especially at launch. But steam has such a backlog of games available that it gets pretty wild. If we’re counting DLCs, OSTs, and games, I’m really not surprised.

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SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yea the amount of shovelware and AI shit that’s put on the platform is massive. Steam just does a really good job keeping that shit from taking over your front store page… unlike the playstore…dunno how it is on iOS…

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- dreamkeeper@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  If steam were doing a “really good job,” none of the garbage would be on the store in the first place.
  
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  - atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Then literally no indie games would ever get popular.
    
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    dreamkeeper@literature.cafe ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    There’s a difference between a quality indie game and shovelware.
    
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raze2012@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It seems that’s partially taken into account:

New analysis of 99,206 Steam games illustrates just how extreme the economics can be on Valve’s PC gaming emporium

Over 8,000 paid games analyzed never received a single Steam review

This report also only looks at premium games, meaning free-to-play giants like Valve’s Counter-Strike are left out, as are “non-game software, adult-only titles and unreleased entries.” The list of 99,206 was selected from a base of 136,281.

The only caveat is that revenue is estimated, so there can be big swings in the data.

The standard multiplier here is 35, so this research assumes one Steam review is worth 35 sales at a game’s current listed price, though you can also use a more “conservative” 20 or “generous” 50 in the report’s impressive graphs.

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