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by brucethemoose2 997 days ago
And many of those games that aren't porn or straight asset flips are... undesirable. And they will crowd out your middle game.

12,653 games were released on Steam in 2022[1]. I don't even want to know how many are released on Android/iOS. This is not 1992 where you need a assembly wizard to even make a game, and while the author tried to address this, the fact that any middle game will almost certainly be crowded out seems like an unavoidable elephant in the room.

1: https://steamdb.info/stats/releases/
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two_in_one 997 days ago
> any middle game will almost certainly be crowded out

eBay and Amazon sellers have a trick for this: listing zillions of variations or combinations. Not sure if game devs already figured that out. Probably some of them did because 12k looks a lot.

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brucethemoose2 997 days ago
Looking at the app stores, Android/iOS devs definitely figured it out.

I think straight up relisting would be harder on Steam, at least at this point in time. It's not quite to the point where there is so much sludge that Valve staff can't even handle community reports.

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