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Watching a video where someone is claiming a $35 cozy game is a failure because it's concurrent player numbers dropped 6 weeks after launch... We are so fucked in how people perceive games, their value, and expectations. It's not stardew valley numbers!?!! Well then it must be a piece of shit...

It's so fucking funny because consistent player numbers only matter for MP games really. Singleplayer? Nah, it can say maybe a bit but it doesn't matter for revenue, coop games similarly if they aren't planning on long term income. And what does succeed there varies wildly

2000 is massive! Especially for indie studios! If even 5% of players leave reviews thats 10,000 copies! even after steam's 30% (not sure of other platforms) thats well into the 6 digits in terms of revenue. even if the game has a 100% review rate 2000 people is a lot of people that like your game!!!

2000 is 5% of 40,000. 5% of 10,000 is 500. But your positivity does hold water. 2000 positive reviews is fantastic.

2000 reviews in 6 weeks at $35 dollars, assuming each reviewer purchased a copy, is $70,000. That's more than $11,500 a week. Extrapolating that further that's $552,000~ a year. If you're making 333 sales for 52 weeks, you've already paid off your CEO. What are the numbers supposed to look like?

Really only 2% of the people who buy a game review it - so it's more likely 100k sales - just on the one platform in the first six weeks!