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      "description": "Steam is filled with PC games that nobody is buying or playing",
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      "title": "19,000 Games Came To Steam In 2024 And 80 Percent Of Them Had Almost No Players",
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  "text": "Absolutely.\n\nThe only thing that I can realistically see is boutique publishers like Outersloth filling the void, but they CANNOT sustain the number of people currently employed by AAA. And like you mentioned, indie is not a solution when 19k games/year come out on Steam and 80% make no money"
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