Agreed, my first thought was about the stats for Twitch streamers where having more than something like 10 concurrent viewers consistently for a 30 day period puts you in the top 15% of streamers on the platform or whatever. I forget the exact numbers, but it’s something crazy like that.
dukemirage@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s actually more than I thought. I thought about 80% fall into complete oblivion.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Dojan@pawb.social 2 months ago
This was my initial reaction too. I am making the assumption that less than ten still means not zero.
I rarely leave reviews so I’m surprised that 50% of all releases even see a single one.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
10 reviews means like 500-1000 sales. The vast majority of people dont leave reviews.
jaaake@lemmy.world 2 months ago
10 reviews means the developer has some combination of the following:
10 is essentially 0 and cannot be extrapolated into sales.
I agree that if game development is a hobby and not a career, this isn’t a problem for those developers.
I also submit that if you are attempting to make money from your efforts and don’t yet have a following, and can’t afford a marketing budget, and have actually made something unique, interesting, or otherwise worthwhile, it is more difficult to stand out in a market whose signal to noise ratio is continuously and exponentially growing noisier.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
10 reviews is basically statistical noise.