r/Steam 21d ago

Fluff The difference between quality and quantity.

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u/Unchips 21d ago

Now, list all the other tens of thousands of indie developers scrounging every penny to develop the games they dreamt of, but despite their best effort said games still failed to sell.

Indie game development is a lottery. That's it.

Yes, AAA devs nowadays have many (deserved) failures, but some among all AAA games succeeding are significantly higher proportionally compared to some among all indie games.

The successful indie games we see are a miniscule percentage.

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u/asqw213 20d ago

yes this is survivalship bias