How is it that run of the mill, "slop" games sell well enough to keep studios in business? You hear about constant layoffs and closures but these small-middle tier studios continue to churn out games you've never heard of. You know, the ones. The filler games you see at annual game presentations. The generic rouge-like, farming sims, and soulslikes.

These games are basically forgotten as soon as they're revealed and never see any media attention. It isn't that people talk about them negatively, they just aren't even talked about at all. Somehow, despite it all, these games studios continue to exist and seemingly sell well enough to spawn sequels. Who is funding them?

Has gaming just gotten to a point where it is big enough that it can sustain low quality titles that are never talked about? Is the average normie the median buyer right now? Hordes of endless normies who buys whatever they see if it sounds cool enough.

They're wholly made by or outsourced to India (look at the end titles) so the budgets remain relatively low
And they cater mostly to indiefaggots and steamtroons who have been buckbroken by AAA releases and have a grudge against them.
They also tend to make money by being deeply discounted during steam sales and bought by brainrotted morons for 5 bucks to keep in their unplayed collection and forgotten about.

>>715038845
I think it's also the fact that some people genuinely have no standards. Think about the endless sea of garbage TV shows that somehow happen to have dozens of seasons and mass appeal, yet no online discussion anywhere.

>>715039185
what games and series do you have in mind?
>mass appeal, yet no online discussion
that's the point, they're made to be watched/listened to on a second screen while scrolling on TikTok, they don't have online discussions because their audience consumed it instead of experiencing it

>>715037264 (OP)
>dev specializes in making lots of cheap to make games so that if even a few sells they profit
>that thread about steam users buying games they don't play that got 404'd because it made them mad, it's steam users funding it

>>715037264 (OP)
Very simple.. only AAA studios tale ESG / DEI loans to male their profits up front, so, only they have to pay it back. Interest rates and gamers not buying the end result, bankrupts the studio.

And they deserve it.