I don’t assume the emotion we really feel is bitterness a lot as it’s a little bit of unhappiness. Costs falling is regular and unavoidable. It’s unlikely the video games I labored on early in my profession could possibly be bought for something as we speak. I’ve combined emotions about Steam gross sales normally.
I feel there’s a legitimate and rising concern amongst sport builders that Steam gross sales are devaluing video games as a complete. As an alternative of discovering an excellent sport at a cut price and appreciating it when taking part in it, Steam Gross sales have turn into this seasonal occasion the place gamers purchase a lot of video games that they hardly ever play. The video games we purchase are simply textual content strains within the library. There’s even a pile-of-shame tracker that tells folks what number of unplayed video games they’ve of their Steam libraries.
What I care about as a sport dev is that gamers get pleasure from taking part in the video games I labored on. I really feel unhappy after I take into consideration gamers who might boot the sport up for a couple of minutes, hand over, and throw the sport away, by no means attending to see the work I put into it. I really feel unhappy after I take into consideration the superb video games I bought to play that had been so formative for my profession, and what number of gamers as we speak would ignore them since they’re outdated and low cost. I feel that’s the true tragedy of Steam gross sales and the like – if it doesn’t value you something for a sport, there’s little or no cause to take a position your self into it. We in the end construct video games for gamers to get pleasure from. Steam gross sales perversely make it each simpler for gamers to see my work and more durable for them to really get pleasure from it.
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