Problem with any storefront. Same deal on iOS/Android.
Ya I was just checking out the discord store. Hopefully they add some needed features.
Yep, the article could have been good (like your first example), but instead was full of stupid points and misinformation. It doesn't help that all of these devs seem to believe they made the next Super Meat Boy and are therefore entitled to tons of sales and publicity, while also not having to compete with other games. I have zero respect for anyone who thinks like that. There's believing in your creation, and then there's expecting preferential treatment. This is the latter.
Sure, but all the storefronts I listed are still Steam competitors
The userbase is entirely different too, so what works in mobile isn't necessarily going to work on Steam.
To be fair, the Nintendo store has an utterly, UTTERLY worthless UI that makes finding even games you want a pain in the ass. They could offset their volume issue by fixing their UI.
Honestly? Probably not, at least not in the form it does today. Which kind of reveals how ridiculous the idea of Steam 'monopolizing' the market is, no other service (that I'm aware of) allows the generation of keys for their platform without seeing a dime from those keys.
You don't need a decent gaming PC to play most of the games on Steam. Hell, 40% of users don't even have a dedicated GPU.
Just checked out your game. And it really does look cool. But my guess would be it has to do with VR ownership. I never see any VR games among recommended games or on the frontpage. In combination with the tags (mainly talking about sports and football) only reaching a realitively small part of the Steam audience I really guess it's their algorithm working but weighing things in a way that you don't get the visibility that the reviews would warrant.
I don't go to Amazon for suggestions on which music CDs to buy. I learn about an artist elsewhere and then go to Amazon specifically to buy their album. This is how every store works.
Yeah as I said they really don't do curation by humans and I would suspect that the tags for the game are weighed in that algorithm in a way that is really bad for your visibility. I would guess especially in the VR sector (what with new/different genres being better on VR than other more popular genres in non-VR space) that a lot of devs suffer this issue because frankly, nobody seems to be interested in working on that algorithm.
I would guess so. Valve just doesn't have the manpower (and interest in increasing that manpower) to actually offer support to any dev that sells on their storefront.
I understand that, I'm just saying that no other platform does that without taking a cut. Obviously they benefit in some way or they wouldnt bother, they just aren't trying to milk it like they could and other platforms do.
I get it, but you are also personally involved. At the same time you also have to understand why so many consumers disregard these concerns: They actually don't concern them, there are so many games out there that everybody always has something to play besides the consumers don't have any power or say in how Steam deals with business partners internally.
