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Dev of slept-on tactical RPG says it "sold badly" despite glowing reviews: "My next project will be more focused on 'Does this sell'" (www.gamesradar.com)

submitted 10 months ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 56 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Game is Arco.

I haven't ever heard of it; maybe they should focus more on 'How do we market this'...

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Its definitely a hard thing for most indie devs to do on their own. Its a totally separate skillset that most of us don't have but can definitely be learned.

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's what a publisher is for, and in this case they failed them completely.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

In this case yeah, but it's still always a good idea to do your own marketing as well

[–] Aquila@sh.itjust.works -4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I’m convinced it’s unnecessary if your game is good. Word of mouth is so strong with gamers

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You need to advertise enough to get people playing and talking first. There's about 50 games pet day released on steam. It's easy to get Los in the noise.

[–] Aquila@sh.itjust.works -1 points 10 months ago

You 1000% will not get lost in the noise if you put out a helldivers like quality game. There’s nerds everyday combing through steam store looking for the next great games. Helldivers with zero marketing would have made significantly less but still been a resounding commercial success

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Relying on luck isn't a great strategy, even if it sometimes works.

[–] Aquila@sh.itjust.works -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There’s no hidden gems in steam. Games sell as well as they should for their quality. There’s margin of error of course like a low quality game sells on the higher end due to good marketing or a high quality game sells low end due to poor marketing.

Most games are just not great

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There’s no hidden gems in steam

high quality game sells low end due to poor marketing

Self contradiction

[–] Aquila@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Words are hard. This is what I mean

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah but there are definitely games that are terrible with extreme marketing budgets that sell really well, that's a lot of triple A games in a nutshell

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