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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 56 points 2 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 2 months ago (10 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.

[–] Aquila@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Aquila@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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 3 points 2 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 2 months ago (1 children)

Words are hard. This is what I mean

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 1 points 2 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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