Valve accidentally smothers indie game with 138,000 wishlists by not telling anyone it existed, then apologizes to studio by accidentally revealing Steam Machine on the same day of promotion

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The devs hold no ill will towards Valve, it's "just bad luck and we must accept it"

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After Steam offered to give it front page placement as an apology for having its launch kneecapped by a Steam bug, Planet Centauri once again missed out on getting eyes on it because of Valve.

Developer Permadeath made the indie space sandbox game over 10 years, and it had eventually amassed 138,000 wishlists on Steam – before facing a disastrous launch. A Steam bug made it so wishlist emails weren't sent out, and Planet Centauri, in turn, sold only 581 copies in the first five days of its 1.0 launch.

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