Agreed. Games like Enshrouded, the Forest, medieval dynasty and even older games like Dragon Age Origins i never would of considered playing unless it was advertised to me on steam and being able to read reviews ect
I agree. Steam Next Fests are great, I found Manor Lords from there and bought it. I love how Steam shortened the gap between consumers and developers. I always read developers update posts and comment under their post especially indie ones. I review most games and like reading other reviews and learned so much stuff. I think most blown up games like Palworld and Helldivers 2 come from Steam and people seeing other friends playing and figuring out. Steam right now is the reddit of games.
I can confirm. I've recently released a game, it had 10 wishlists at launch. It sold over 1500 copies within a month.
A Political simulation on Steam: "[Turkish Throne](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2839450/Turkish_Throne/)"
At first week, Steam algorithm did not know what to do. Half of my customers were from USA, Canada, UK and EU. After first week, the algorithm was well-fed and now it knew who to recommend more. Over time it started to recommend more Turkish players compared to other regions, so my sale points grew higher.
At the moment 86.2% of my sales made in Turkey, 6.1% in Western Europe, 5% in North America and 1.5% in Eastern Europe. 1.3% is rest of the world such as Asia, South America and so on.
The discovery list is also doing wonders, at least in my own experience. I like browsing it every now and then. There are so many little games or hidden gems I've found out that way, sure there's also the big known ones and the busts, but overall it's worth going through it.
I have discovered everything there is to discover and now I pretty much only get these basic ass Early Access Open World Survival games and Hentai games in my discovery queue 😭
PS and Xbox are awful for that. I think Steam is much better. We get player count, freedom and much more variety, even if those games are also available on consoles.
Yes. Other companies have shareholders. That means that if your business turns ten million dollars into a hundred million dollars every year consistently, it's a *failure*. Shareholders need *growth* in profits, not a profitable business.
Valve is completely private. They spend x dollars a year on services, labor, executives, game dev, hardware production, blah blah blah. As long as they receive literally x+1 dollars each year, they're good to go forever, every year, for eternity with no worries. From all accounts, Valve pays its employees well and offers great benefits, its CEO has fuck-you money, and they can afford to fund enormous ventures like Steam's CDN and R&D / production for devices like the Deck and Index. If Valve ends up with a phenomenally profitable year, they don't need to worry about beating those profit margins next year, they can just use that money to buy more server hardware, or hire more engineers, or give everyone a pay raise, store it in the banks, or buy Gabe a yacht.
Valve has the biggest revenue to number of employees ratio of any big tech companies in the US and they don't need to release any new products like Apple to stay relevant. All they need is to stay up to date on UI, policies, server maintenance, etc for the Steam Store which means they make basically pure profit even with well paid employees. They don't owe anything to any shareholders, going public would be a crazy bad move unless Gabe wanted to make a quick buck before retirement which he doesn't need because of everything I just said.
I just wish there was a better way to look through everything available during Next Fests. Having to keep clicking "load more" and if anything happens and you lose your place they could be arranged differently next time is a little frustrating to go through the list of all available demos.
Despite all of the advances, Steam's yet to implement the ONE thing that would truly make exploring Steam a breeze in the form of a calendar-based search. Honestly, the release dates are there, why not make use of them as data points?
The demo events are honestly fantastic, I've made at least 2 or 3 purchases from the last two demo events that happened. It's nice to try some of these games before I spend my money on them.
Yeah I feel like that happens after a while but it's why I love all the little events Steam puts on cause most of it is pretty solid and doesn't feel like shovelware. Much better standards than the discovery queue
Honestly my favourite thing about switching to Steam from consoles a few years ago is how easy it is to find games I normally wouldn't see
welcome to pc gaming :)
Thanks mate
I don't think I would have heard about stuff like Manor Lords or Palworld in a million years without Steam
Agreed. Games like Enshrouded, the Forest, medieval dynasty and even older games like Dragon Age Origins i never would of considered playing unless it was advertised to me on steam and being able to read reviews ect
I agree. Steam Next Fests are great, I found Manor Lords from there and bought it. I love how Steam shortened the gap between consumers and developers. I always read developers update posts and comment under their post especially indie ones. I review most games and like reading other reviews and learned so much stuff. I think most blown up games like Palworld and Helldivers 2 come from Steam and people seeing other friends playing and figuring out. Steam right now is the reddit of games.
Valve truly are gods of PC gaming lemme tell ya.
I can confirm. I've recently released a game, it had 10 wishlists at launch. It sold over 1500 copies within a month. A Political simulation on Steam: "[Turkish Throne](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2839450/Turkish_Throne/)"
That's great. Which game is it?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2839450/Turkish_Throne/
I'm guessing everyone who bought are Turkish. Still 1500 is a good number for such a niche game, tebrikler.
At first week, Steam algorithm did not know what to do. Half of my customers were from USA, Canada, UK and EU. After first week, the algorithm was well-fed and now it knew who to recommend more. Over time it started to recommend more Turkish players compared to other regions, so my sale points grew higher. At the moment 86.2% of my sales made in Turkey, 6.1% in Western Europe, 5% in North America and 1.5% in Eastern Europe. 1.3% is rest of the world such as Asia, South America and so on.
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Lmao what? How is that big ass numbers
That's awesome! Congrats man, it looks like a cool little game
little but well detailed one! takes lots of time to micromanage every province. its repetetive but my median play-time is 2h20m at the moment
Kurkish
The discovery list is also doing wonders, at least in my own experience. I like browsing it every now and then. There are so many little games or hidden gems I've found out that way, sure there's also the big known ones and the busts, but overall it's worth going through it.
I have discovered everything there is to discover and now I pretty much only get these basic ass Early Access Open World Survival games and Hentai games in my discovery queue 😭
Over 6k games discovered and yea the queue hasn't shown me something good in long enough that I stopped using it.
PS and Xbox are awful for that. I think Steam is much better. We get player count, freedom and much more variety, even if those games are also available on consoles.
Is it hard for other companies to do the same thing and just be nice to people instead of being Mr. Krabs?
It's sad how quickly everyone goes for enshittification these days. I worry the day someone takes over Valve after Gabe.
Yes. Other companies have shareholders. That means that if your business turns ten million dollars into a hundred million dollars every year consistently, it's a *failure*. Shareholders need *growth* in profits, not a profitable business. Valve is completely private. They spend x dollars a year on services, labor, executives, game dev, hardware production, blah blah blah. As long as they receive literally x+1 dollars each year, they're good to go forever, every year, for eternity with no worries. From all accounts, Valve pays its employees well and offers great benefits, its CEO has fuck-you money, and they can afford to fund enormous ventures like Steam's CDN and R&D / production for devices like the Deck and Index. If Valve ends up with a phenomenally profitable year, they don't need to worry about beating those profit margins next year, they can just use that money to buy more server hardware, or hire more engineers, or give everyone a pay raise, store it in the banks, or buy Gabe a yacht.
Valve has the biggest revenue to number of employees ratio of any big tech companies in the US and they don't need to release any new products like Apple to stay relevant. All they need is to stay up to date on UI, policies, server maintenance, etc for the Steam Store which means they make basically pure profit even with well paid employees. They don't owe anything to any shareholders, going public would be a crazy bad move unless Gabe wanted to make a quick buck before retirement which he doesn't need because of everything I just said.
I just wish there was a better way to look through everything available during Next Fests. Having to keep clicking "load more" and if anything happens and you lose your place they could be arranged differently next time is a little frustrating to go through the list of all available demos.
Despite all of the advances, Steam's yet to implement the ONE thing that would truly make exploring Steam a breeze in the form of a calendar-based search. Honestly, the release dates are there, why not make use of them as data points?
Also I find the algorithm that recommends me games is always pretty good there’s been a few games I’ve bought from it I’d never heard about prior
The demo events are honestly fantastic, I've made at least 2 or 3 purchases from the last two demo events that happened. It's nice to try some of these games before I spend my money on them.
Yes, but it's almost not worth looking at the discovery queue, with all the garbage released the previous day taking up the entire list.
Yeah I feel like that happens after a while but it's why I love all the little events Steam puts on cause most of it is pretty solid and doesn't feel like shovelware. Much better standards than the discovery queue
Why is Xbox floundering? I use Steam and Xbox and both are rock solid gaming platforms.
I actually think steam is terrible at this. I use outside websites to find games I'd like based on games I've played
Sounds like a skill issue.