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Re:My Steam Game Revenue Stats by judge2020 on Saturday July 24, 2021 @01:27AM (#27938670)
There's a lot of low-quality Unity games on Steam, largely because they automated the new game system so that all it takes to publish a game is paying $100. There are some legitimate game designers putting in effort, but some 'publishers' have hundreds of these games and are often just copies of each other but with different assets.
Re:My Steam Game Revenue Stats by squeaky-clean on Saturday July 24, 2021 @01:53AM (#27938806)
For anyone doubting how simple this is, you can buy entirely pre-made games and template games in the Unity Asset Store for anywhere from $25-$500 depending on how polished the asset is.
Re:My Steam Game Revenue Stats by moepstar on Saturday July 24, 2021 @02:11AM (#27938874)
...and then, something like this [0] happens:

1) create overpromising marketing campaign/kickstarter for a MMO

2) slap together some random assets

3) ???

4) receive VC

5) profit..

[0] https://www.pcgamer.com/dreamworld-infinite-world-mmo-kickst...

Re:My Steam Game Revenue Stats by ethbr0 on Saturday July 24, 2021 @05:22PM (#27944592)
Isn't this just the game version of (1) start a new fashion "label", (2) buy Facebook ads, (3) drop ship from China when / if you get actual oorders?