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Itch.io posts: The number of game pages being created per-day has doubled in the past 2 months

Tommy's Homemade Games reaponds: Do you know why?

Itch.io posts: take a guess ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿค–

Itch.io posts: The number of downloads and purchases has not doubled ๐Ÿฅฒ

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[โ€“] Dessa@hexbear.net 45 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Another notch on the side of "Video gaming is in a bubble."

We got

  • a depressed economy where AAA companies are charging record high prices
  • on systems nobody can afford because the price of processing is through the roof
  • and an indie scene that's about to nosedive into a sea of slop that will make it much harder to find the good stuff made by real people
[โ€“] booty@hexbear.net 30 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's a strong position for a company to do what Nintendo did back in the day and basically guarantee the quality of all games they publish. Except in this case that just means guaranteeing real fucking humans made the game and its assets.

[โ€“] PurrLure@hexbear.net 16 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Speaking of Nintendo, they've really let the quality of their games go downhill in the last decade. anti-italian-action

Gotta maximize that shareholder value.

[โ€“] someone@hexbear.net 10 points 7 hours ago

Also, the switch online store is a sea of mobile-shovelware ports.