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Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases
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this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2025
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I mean if people aren't buying new games it's def a bag thing for the developers and publishers. Feel however you want about them but modern AAA games don't get made without crazy investments. Hell even AA games are starting to eat 10s of millions.
If they are investing huge amounts of money and not seeing a return on that investment, maybe they will stop churning out microtransaction slop if it keeps failing.
Probably not, but one can hope.
If they aren't buying them yes, but this looked at what people are playing.
What does that have to do with gaming backlogs?
Oh, nothing, judging from that downvote.