[anonzzzies]

I have a list of games i have been wanting to make for ages. I was a game dev in the 80s, but got into b2b DOS, Windows and then Web dev to make for more consistent money. I guess if I ever do, I would do it for myself and if others like it, fine, if not, fine.

[samiv]

This is absolutely fine. But people who post on Reddit or gamedev.net or any other forum ultimately are also looking for external validation. If they weren't they would not be posting. But hey let's be honest, who wouldn't want to get at least some pats on the pack or some positive feedback, right? But sadly it's a dead end for 99% of people posting on any channel.

Tangentially related to this, in the -80s there was the video game crash and a bunch of games were even buried in the ground.

It's incredible to think about that today we're already way past that and essentially the cost of any game is about 0. Of course that's not quite true, the market is bimodal where you have the games that cost nothing (because user's would not pay for them) and then the triple A level games.

Unfortunately in the former group creation of the games still costs something so now any studio with paid workers has to rely on secondary avenues for revenue since the user's aren't willing to pay up front to pay the game.

I'm really not sure if this is a healthy market anymore.

[anonzzzies]

I think it's not healthy anymore; game devs I know are kind of part artist, part coder, often more the former than the latter and so they spend crazy time on polishing things and making it perfect only to get no feedback, no sales, no nothing. It must be incredible frustrating and basically painful, leading to burnouts.