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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 ๐ญ ๐ค
Itch.io posts: The number of downloads and purchases has not doubled ๐ฅฒ
note that the amount of games with 500+ reviews has barely changed in comparison
12k in 2022 was already too much tbh
This sucks, but also itch is rampant with bot traffic. You basically have to put up a "pay what you want" paywall to have any sort of realistic idea of your download activity. I made that mistake with my first media player release and was blown away by the thousands of obviously fake downloads I got within the first few hours.
Almost fell for the malware comments first time I used itch. Good that it exists I guess but in many respects it's pretty shit.
Another notch on the side of "Video gaming is in a bubble."
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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.
Speaking of Nintendo, they've really let the quality of their games go downhill in the last decade. 
Gotta maximize that shareholder value.
Also, the switch online store is a sea of mobile-shovelware ports.
Steam is even worse and valves official response has basically been boohooing about the fact that they're the arbiters of the entire industry that they totally didn't monopolized.
Meanwhile Epic is saying that having voluntary AI disclosure tags is anti-AI racism. It's bleak.
Steam makes $100 for every slop game uploaded to it that gets zero sales lol.
Trying to explain to liberals how the mechanization of labour lowers the rate of profit and does not 'raise value'. Especially when they think it'll somehow raise the value of the labour inputs into non-LLM slopgames and yet wouldn't also raise the price of these games somehow (also how anyone's going to afford games when we have massive unemployment, but the questions keep spiralling from there).
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Yeah that's not surprising given the general state of things