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Its definitely a hard thing for most indie devs to do on their own. Its a totally separate skillset that most of us don't have but can definitely be learned.
I’m convinced it’s unnecessary if your game is good. Word of mouth is so strong with gamers
Relying on luck isn't a great strategy, even if it sometimes works.
There’s no hidden gems in steam. Games sell as well as they should for their quality. There’s margin of error of course like a low quality game sells on the higher end due to good marketing or a high quality game sells low end due to poor marketing.
Most games are just not great
Self contradiction
Words are hard. This is what I mean
Yeah but there are definitely games that are terrible with extreme marketing budgets that sell really well, that's a lot of triple A games in a nutshell