“Half of all paid games on Steam have earned less than an estimated $3,622 in their entire lifetime,” the report reads. “A game at the 90th percentile has earned about $236,184, and the 99th percentile starts at $15,872,031.”
10% making over $235k paints a very different picture tho…
Especially considering how 8/10 games seem to be utter slop lately.
Recall, percentages are projections for masses that can only count to 100. It is, as this data demonstrates, a very limiting projection for logarithmic scales. When folks can see the cliff, they truly see the nepotistic curation Valve rerewards. There’s no «Surprise me!» like in spotify or bandcamp. «New indie titles to try!» «Indie of the week!» etc…
Edit: There is also a Categories menu with lots of tags and game genres to click, to see games in that category for inspiration. Such as when you click INDIE, the indie page opens: https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Indie
10% making over $235k paints a very different picture tho…
Especially considering how 8/10 games seem to be utter slop lately.
‘Platformer’, ‘roguelike’, ‘survival’, ‘base building’
Four horsemen of steam slop.
roguelike is a pretty cool genre with so many good games. Some of the best indie games are roguelikes. I wouldn’t call the genre “slop”.
Recall, percentages are projections for masses that can only count to 100. It is, as this data demonstrates, a very limiting projection for logarithmic scales. When folks can see the cliff, they truly see the nepotistic curation Valve rerewards. There’s no «Surprise me!» like in spotify or bandcamp. «New indie titles to try!» «Indie of the week!» etc…
Try these:
Edit: There is also a Categories menu with lots of tags and game genres to click, to see games in that category for inspiration. Such as when you click
INDIE, the indie page opens: https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/IndieScreenshot
There’s literally a “discover queue”…
What are you even bitching about?
Literally like…. 20 indie showcases and steam next fests and such a year which all promote indie games in their own preview/sale/etc?
Edit: literally a bowling and pinball showcase going on right now with plenty of niche indie games?
I dont think OP uses Steam. It even pops up with random games when you open it.
I think they want to just complain and feel smart
Most of my store page is games I have never heard of. TF is wrong with your store feed?
Everytime I open up steam I see at least 1 new indie game with 0 reviews on the front page