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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've gone back and forth, but I agree. People just need to stop assuming that a game being on Steam is an endorsement. It's just a platform. They've removed almost all barrier for entry to enable truly indie developers to have their game on the premier PC game store. I'm sure indies prefer paying $100 and doing whatever they can to gain social traction compared to begging the gatekeepers at major publishers to give them a chance, though I could be wrong.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah, and there's a a lot of games on Steam that would never get approved by a publisher, especially the smallest of indie games. Besides, if you have the means to get a finished game on Steam without a publisher, you get to keep all revenue to yourself instead of losing ~50% to a publisher.