I mean, it doesn’t exactly take much to run Steam…
They make a few games, but it’s less making new games and supporting a handful that have been around decades by now.
The reason they have such market dominance, is Gabe isn’t insanely greedy. He has more than he’ll ever spend, and I’d love to see him do more with the massive wealth he has.
But it’s not like he’s fucking over users to squeeze what would be an unnoticeable amount more. So people hang around.!
I’d hate to guess the number of people who have dropped over a grand through Steam
Maybe having a minimum where the sales don’t take a cut? That way slop that doesn’t sale much doesn’t benefit, but when a good indie comes along that sales well it would make a difference.
Whatever limit you try to set, that’s what the AI slop will aim to meet.
It’s just something that can’t be automated, at the end of the day every online market needs a human to whitelist new products and review bait and switches, or the market will flood with junk.
But no one wants to pay for that human level review.
And I know, it may cause delays, but most Indie game do not only beta but alpha builds to fund development. I bought BG3 like 2 years before release because it made Act 1 immediately playable, it’s not even just an Indie dev thing.
So even if it takes a full year, real developers would just register early in the process. The slop tho won’t stay topical because they’re not being pumped out in an afternoon.
I mean, it doesn’t exactly take much to run Steam…
They make a few games, but it’s less making new games and supporting a handful that have been around decades by now.
The reason they have such market dominance, is Gabe isn’t insanely greedy. He has more than he’ll ever spend, and I’d love to see him do more with the massive wealth he has.
But it’s not like he’s fucking over users to squeeze what would be an unnoticeable amount more. So people hang around.!
I’d hate to guess the number of people who have dropped over a grand through Steam
They could definitely lower their 30% cut for indie devs. Even just making the first 50k free would be huge (epic takes no cut for the first million).
Going to take a metric fuckton of work to vet.
Better: Tiered system like unreal or whatever:
They’d have to start doing vetting for that…
All the slop games are “indie” or at least would start to be structured that way to lower their barrier of entry.
Yea, ton of things marketed as indie don’t fit the bill.
Maybe having a minimum where the sales don’t take a cut? That way slop that doesn’t sale much doesn’t benefit, but when a good indie comes along that sales well it would make a difference.
Whatever limit you try to set, that’s what the AI slop will aim to meet.
It’s just something that can’t be automated, at the end of the day every online market needs a human to whitelist new products and review bait and switches, or the market will flood with junk.
But no one wants to pay for that human level review.
And I know, it may cause delays, but most Indie game do not only beta but alpha builds to fund development. I bought BG3 like 2 years before release because it made Act 1 immediately playable, it’s not even just an Indie dev thing.
So even if it takes a full year, real developers would just register early in the process. The slop tho won’t stay topical because they’re not being pumped out in an afternoon.