Comment on Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 2 days ago100k is not enough to pay even a single full time dev, so I wouldn’t call this the success threshold.
Comment on Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 2 days ago100k is not enough to pay even a single full time dev, so I wouldn’t call this the success threshold.
Starski@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
How? That’s over double what I make in a year, living in America too. Are game devs required to like eat something super expensive every day?
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 1 day ago
Because despite all the LLM slopaganda the laws of supply and demand give software engineers some leverage over prospective employers.
Starski@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I see there was a fundamental misunderstanding, you see I thought you meant that 100k wasn’t enough for someone to survive on, you simply meant that Software engineers have high standards.