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      Not to diminish the dev, but I did see this promoted in a Steam sale, and with 200+ reviews, that’s not exactly chump change. Also it was released only a week ago. From watching the trailer, that’s more or less the numbers I expect that kind of game to be pulling.

    • @[email protected]
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      Its definitely a hard thing for most indie devs to do on their own. Its a totally separate skillset that most of us don’t have but can definitely be learned.

      • @shadowedcross
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        That’s what a publisher is for, and in this case they failed them completely.

      • @Aquila
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        I’m convinced it’s unnecessary if your game is good. Word of mouth is so strong with gamers

        • @ryathal
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          You need to advertise enough to get people playing and talking first. There’s about 50 games pet day released on steam. It’s easy to get Los in the noise.

          • @Aquila
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            You 1000% will not get lost in the noise if you put out a helldivers like quality game. There’s nerds everyday combing through steam store looking for the next great games. Helldivers with zero marketing would have made significantly less but still been a resounding commercial success

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            There’s no hidden gems in steam. Games sell as well as they should for their quality. There’s margin of error of course like a low quality game sells on the higher end due to good marketing or a high quality game sells low end due to poor marketing.

            Most games are just not great

            • @[email protected]
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              There’s no hidden gems in steam

              high quality game sells low end due to poor marketing

              Self contradiction

              • @Aquila
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                022 days ago

                Words are hard. This is what I mean

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                  Yeah but there are definitely games that are terrible with extreme marketing budgets that sell really well, that’s a lot of triple A games in a nutshell