Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything

• 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 ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Then literally no indie games would ever get popular.

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    • dreamkeeper@literature.cafe ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s a difference between a quality indie game and shovelware.

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      • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ok. So what percentage of the games launched on steam are shovelware vs quality indie games. And where is that line? And who makes that decision?

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