Valve continues to bare all
Valve is continuing its campaign to reveal really specific sales and financial data to the public, which I noted last week is surprising and kinda odd.
Gamasutra has a report today with retail sales figures on every game the acclaimed indie developer (and online publisher) has released in its 10 year history, apparently drawn from a profile in GameInformer. GamaSutra's analysis of the figures, along with speculation about what more sales may have come via digital download on Steam, is very good and I recommend it.
However, I continue to ask: Why is Valve sharing all this data? Speculation in the comments on my last post including that Valve is looking for a buyer/partner or is trying to promote the usage of Steam. But neither makes a ton of sense to me. Maybe it just wants to raise its corporate profile right now? Maybe they really a little more respect in the world for not only making good games, but being a successful company? Something is clearly up. And in my experience, when a company puts on a full court press to raise its public profile, it has plans to do something big, or at least try to do something big, in the near future.
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Given the terrible economic climate I cant image being an independent developer who focuses solely on the hardcore games market and even more so on the smaller PC portion is a safe place to be.
I'd speculate they're definitely looking for partners or some form of security blanket.
Posted by: Dan | December 09, 2008 at 11:51 AM