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Over 50% of all steam games have never made over $1000 (gamalytic.com)

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[+] [email protected] 86 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah exactly. Because to me it implies that less than 90% is shovelware crap, and I cannot quite believe this. It doesn't feel that way, even with all the filtering Steam offers nowadays.

Compare the Nintendo eShop, which doesn't filter and where Nintendo doesn't care, and the endless pages and pages and pages of shovelware you need to scroll through (and 15 iterations of AAA Clock for 2€, 80% off! 😅) to find each single proper game.

I would have thought 2%-3% make money, honestly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I mean releasing a game on Steam is not free. You pay a $100 fee per game to Valve to release on their store.

That at least seems to stop the flood of shovelware a tiny bit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

There is probably some bias because games that make money stick around a lot longer. I doubt most games released in the last three years (which seems to be the time they looked at) that made no money are still on there.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

With VN makers and Midjourney, you can pump out a half way decent VN in no time. I've honestly thought of doing a cheesy one for my DnD players as their story recap each session, but I already spend so much time on the rest of the game...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

Ah, so it's not just my own perception that was making me think that steam was filling up with crappy visual novel stuff.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am not surprised with the amount of Unity free assets games, now with AI-generated stories.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think they removed Only Up! for that reason

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The developer took that one down to focus on their health, they said. https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/only-up-creator-reveals-they-are-removing-the-game-on-steam-due-to-stress-2284288/

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If we try to exclude the super simple and cheap games by only looking at games priced at more than $5, the median is closer to $4000

just because a game is more than $5, doesn't mean it's not super simple, cheap shovelware.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nobody is claiming that, the claim is merely that a lot of the games under $5 are shovelware. I'm sure you could take it a step further and try to remove shovelware, but that's gets really subjective really fast.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Honestly, that's okay. As long as indie devs have a place where they can sell and market their games fairly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

There‘s no mention of ingame purchase revenue, so I assume they aren’t included?