If you have more than ten Steam games you're not 'relevant'?

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What the hell?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/for...On-Steam-You-Are-Too-Core-For-Many-Developers

Daniel Cook, founder of independent game developer Spry Fox, asked his audience how many owned 10 or more games on Steam. When most raised their hands, he calmly told them "you don't matter."

"You are novelty seekers," Cook said. "You are the smallest demographic in gaming."
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Yeah, and who pays the most money for games?

For the most part, dedicated gamers. Your average casual gamer doesn't really spend a lot of cash on those freemium games or what not. But hey, go and chase after the odd 'whale' that spends hundreds til you practices are made illegal in the future. That works... right?

Right?
 
Really? 10 games overall is the bar? I would understand if it was getting that amount of games in a small period of time. I agree with him about hardcore being a term not even people that use are agreeing with and that thinking mobile must mean casual is limiting the industry.

For me that's the more of a reason to stop separating gamers in groups. We're different and have different gaming habits. Reading the text though, I think that was the point. He is not saying that we don't matter for paying to much to Steam and having games we haven't played but because of the labels like "novelty seekers" that segregate the gamers into the idea that to be "a real gamer' you need to fill a certain criteria and not use certain devices.
 
Well I mean, he's not wrong per se; most Steam users have 10-12 games only, and thinking how mobile gamers with their F2P can sink in way more money than what a person buying a $30 game would, from a mobile developers' perspective the rest of us are worthless. But this is just apples and oranges, and really makes no sense whatsoever.
 
This is retarded, most casuals on steam have 50+ games. I have over 200 myself, and I'd still only consider myself a casual. I don't understand the logic or reasoning behind this one bit, so going to agree with the above post and say it's just the ramblings of a crazy guy.
 
Actually, there might be enough F2P games now on Steam you could have 10 games without any money at all.

By the way, I hope most of that audience left after that line.
 
Trilient said:
This is retarded, most casuals on steam have 50+ games. I have over 200 myself, and I'd still only consider myself a casual. I don't understand the logic or reasoning behind this one bit, so going to agree with the above post and say it's just the ramblings of a crazy guy.
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It's definitely the ramblings of a crazy guy. One who works for a mostly meaningless game development company too.

Demon_skeith said:
So since I only own one steam game right now, I'm important?
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Maybe. What is that one game by the way?

main_gi said:
Actually, there might be enough F2P games now on Steam you could have 10 games without any money at all.

By the way, I hope most of that audience left after that line.
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Yeah, it's really easy to get a lot of games on Steam without spending money. I suspect the number of people with less than 10 games in total is maybe 0.5% of the Steam userbase.
 
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