| caffeinade said: "GDC's 'realistic' talk about game sales on Steam paints a grim picture" |
Pretty much. I've been watching the industry trying to paint a picture over the past year. There have been more stories cropping up about Switch indie success, while also at the same time putting mentions of less sales on Steam, which is pretty much telling us something from a select group (I say select, because Steam is still selling games decently, only a few indie devs are doing this sort of complaining).
I wonder why said devs and journo's aren't moving an inch to complain about the lack of indie support Origin has, let alone Uplay, or how GoG has the tightest of curation and has a smaller library size than Steam itself (not including the garbage asset flipped titles, only the good games). I still think that this is just one big whipped up storm created by a few who want that easy gold mine to work out for them, at the behest of one company they thought was going to deliver to them on a silver platter at all times.
Like people have said on that Resetera thread, Steam isn't there to pay and do all the marketing for you. it is a store that sells games, not handle publishing rights, marketing and other kinds of tasks that large third party pubs take under their wing. Indie devs that rely soley on just one social network and a single youtube video to market their game just aren't doing a good enough job, and have only themselves to blame.
I never even knew about that Blossom game until everyone started boasting about the sales it got on Switch, which just shows that the devs didn't do a good job at marketing it on PC. There was next to no word of mouth about it going around the net, certainly nowhere near the same level for what Starbound, Minecraft, Stardew and Cities Skylines got. It also didn't help that the game looked like something straight out of RPG maker and being another Zelda clone.
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
