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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 day ago

Over 5,000 games released on Steam this year didn't make enough money to recover the $100 fee to put a game on Valve's store, research estimates

www.gamesradar.com

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Over 5,000 games released on Steam this year didn't make enough money to recover the $100 fee to put a game on Valve's store, research estimates

www.gamesradar.com

alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 day ago
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And over 8,000 games are estimated to have earned under $1,000
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    Eh this is a non article. Basically 99% of these are AI shovelware by some low income shovelware factory. They probably are just fishing for a random meme game that hits rather than actually expecting success.

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      Maybe. Quickly looking at games that don’t really sell:

      https://steamdb.info/sales/?max_reviews=10&min_discount=0&min_rating=0&min_reviews=0

      Mostly it just looks like games nobody asked for. Definitely some A.I. and asset flips included, but some look like effort was put into them … however they don’t look fun to me. Like, at all.

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        idk, “Dildo Catcher” sounds like it may be fun

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