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I'm pretty sure Sean's comments should be taken with a pinch of salt. They do know that Mina is a niche game, and that these are great results for a launch weekend. Then again, Shovel Knight eventually sold millions of copies, so why not shoot for the stars? 😁

I just bought Chicory last night because of the remix album, so that sales gap has closed a little! :)

I was a backer so not sure that metric was included.

I've never really understood why people think a game selling a lot of copies is indicative of the quality. To me, all it is indicative of, if anything, is the amount of people who were interested in it. And even then, there's still always the people who are interested but haven't bought it yet.

A lot of people tie their ego about the games they like to sales and it's never healthy. The real sales numbers come from appealing to the "Normal" demographics, and that's never going to have the most creative stuff except in a few rare, unpredictable exceptions.

Mina Hallower beats other AAA games by a mile!

Mass market appeal and successful marketing. Most (really all) indie Devs are under capitalised and don't have the resources to do much more than make the product. Products that sell themselves exist but are rare. Same with every art form, excellence and commercial success are different things.

As a beginner dev I want to value my games by how much I learn along the way, and by how much real people enjoy my work, remember it and think/talk about it. The numbers are immaterial as long as the thing buys me coffee.

being a 50-avg-viewer streamer puts you in the top 2%, but that's also only enough to make ~$5/hour. So I feel there are both good tangible and psychological reasons for the sometimes-weird disconnect in creative areas like this.

I really love Chicory for the things it did with my head. But it absolutely isn't what people think about when they hear "video game", which is a shame, imo. YachtClub, while being successful, is experiencing first hand, that indie games are often less attached to a name or "brand".

I think most people are waiting on this to be honest. Its a fantastic game. I crushed it over the weekend and need to start NG+