• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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      1 year 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.

    • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year 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.