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[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Escape from Tarkov has been very successful with their own site and launcher. I don’t see it ever going to steam and it’s regularly in the top 10 of twitch

[–] Rose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's like saying racism doesn't exist because there are black people in power.

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it’s saying if you make a good game and launcher then you don’t need to rely on one of the storefront that take 30% like epic or Valve. Idk what GoGs cut is but I’ve also never bought anything from there

[–] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's survivorship bias. You're looking at the success of Tarkov but you don't hear about all the games that failed because they weren't on Steam.

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Thousands fail every day on the platform as well, is that survivorship bias as well or just evidence that trash fails and quality succeeds regardless of location