I thought it was like, a well-understood fact by now that most indie games on PC are sold at unsustainably low prices that make it very unlikely that you can recoup development costs (let alone fund a second project) without an outlier success?
Like, that’s just a statement of fact, I don’t get why we have those conversations periodically. The typical indie game is priced at 25-50% of what it should be on release and most people buy it on a desperation sale discount on top of that.
I don’t think that you can just make your game and multiply a “normal” price by 4 and sell it and expect to have a sustainable business; it’s more complicated than that.
But it’s very obvious that across the board, expectations are detached from reality.
But it’s very obvious that across the board, expectations are detached from reality.
I think most people who buy games on steam would be shocked at how few copies most games sell and how much they cost to make, really. If you ever played an indie game you really liked and wondered why there was never any follow-up from the same people... this is probably why.
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