This pervasive idea that Steam owes indies nothing but access to their store is ridiculous. I don't NEED Steam to host my games if they're gonna make me drive direct traffic and sales, I might as well put it on a store that takes less of a cut then. Driving traffic IS Steam's job
I don't want to necessarily defend Steam but to be honest I keep driving traffic only to my direct (itchio) sales and yet the sales on Steam are still way much higher. So, *something* it's still happening regarding traffic, not sure what
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Probably because there is /some/ visibility taking place via, say, queues. But is it worth a 30% cut? And what changed recently to reduce overall visibility during sales? I'm not a Dev, so over to you guys to debate that.
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From what I've heard a lot of the traffic now is wishlist driven so it may be mostly inertia for games that have been released for a while. Most devs saw a dip in wishlists over the winter sale when usually it results in an increase.
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