u/J__Krauser

More loot, more experience for the soldiers. Also, if you capture the aliens, you might even earn more money, I'm not sure.

There is something that has caught my attention lately: games with millions of dollars spent on them are reaching incredibly low player counts, yet these companies don't close down and continue on their way as if nothing happened. Even more interesting is the almost complete lack of advertising for these games. It’s as if they don't do any marketing just so players won't buy them.

The latest example is Aphelion. It was released 5 days ago, but right now there are only about 50 people playing it on Steam. This would be a bad number even for a solo dev, so how does a game with dozens or even hundreds of devs survive this?