![]() ![]() Due to being a tiny team, literally 3 people making everything in the game including audio, with one single human being doing all art/animation/core coding, we decided to prioritize PC and PS4 after being approved by Sony. You missed a few steps, it's mostly just people trying to make a living and running into weird roadblocks.įYI XBox was the first group we pitched, well before Sony or anyone else, but at the end of the 360 era Microsoft had no method for self publishing and we weren't keen to spend a bunch of time/money finding a publisher. It works, not perfectly, but it does work to bring exposure to small and mid-level indie games that otherwise would not see the light of day if they were left to the whims of mega-corps and publishers like Sony and Electronic Arts. I never would have seen these games without Valve's discoverability. Meanwhile I don't see a single asset flip or insulting outrage-shock game on my front page or in any of my lists. Half the listings are indie games (of varying quality) that would get little to no exposure on Playstation or other stores, games like The World Next Door, Under a Porcelain Sun, and Stranded Sails. I look at my frontpage and I don't see any garbage. Garbage asset flips don't get traction on the store. Playstation ecosystem is not insignificant at 10%, but I'm not sure it's doing amazing for indies.ĭo you mean "fantastic" in some other sense?Īs for "competing with everything" the shit isn't floating at the same level as the good games. This is not how I use basically any large online store, it's nonsense.Ī breakdown of platform sales when Shovel Knight hit 2 million sold. This is why I could never relate to the clickbait trolling of Jim Sterling in regards to Steam. Though the grossly offensive stuff should maybe be culled before it gets out, for their own sake more than anything - bad PR. I'm happy with Steam letting basically anything through. But it will not be like that forever, unless they plan on removing games after a certain point - which they definitely won't do. ![]() I don't trawl through lists of games on any of those platforms anymore.ĮGS has so few games at the moment, that you can. So to me this 'problem' on Steam is just as bad as it is on the eShop, XBL, PSN, GoG. I find out about games elsewhere, via online discussion, marketing, etc. I don't find games on any store, not just steam, by looking through lists. Over time, all of these stores become unusable by just trawling through lists of games. I'm not sure when this happened, but I don't understand when it became the platform's responsibility to market everyone's games. ![]()
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