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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": "Lots of folks say \"just go indie\" but there's a simple reason why folks don't: money.\n\nIf you're lucky, you have maybe 6-12 months of runway in the bank. That's a very short amount of time to make a shippable game.\n\nThen you have to deal with the fact that 80% of games have 0 players"
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