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No, Twitter and Facebook in general generate very few sales. It has nothing to do with Steam.
Look at the two threads in the OP. They show the impact of sales, media blitz, and the Steam recommendations before and after the change. Before the change, there was this constant growing trickle of sales. After the change, the sales are almost completely gone.
Think of Steam like a brick and mortar grocery store. Products place at the ends of rows tend to sell better than items in rows due to placement. Indies used to get end rows on rotation, now they don't.
Most indies can't even afford to make the game, nevermind creating ("investing in") a distribution platform too. Not to mention, look at the outcry at EGS. A lot of people don't want more distribution software installed on their computer and more user credentials to manage.
Am I missing something? The only thing I see in those links are graphs indicating the effects of STEAM's practices. Nothing to do with any other distribution source. Those graphs do not account for anything except steam sales, which are irrelevant to what I'm saying.
You're saying that Steam is like a store, and products near the end of the row sell better... which is true. I'm saying don't sell your stuff at that store at all. If the store isn't putting your stuff on the display, there's no point paying them to house it in the back of the warehouse where someone *might* ask for it by name. That's what I'm trying to say, that you don't seem to be getting... you are saying that Steam isn't hawking their product, then basically saying they have no other choice but to use steam... Bad news for you, Steam will do what Steam wants to do, and they have every right to do so, damn what other people think or who it hurts. If Steam isn't serving indie developers, then indie developers should LEAVE STEAM. That's all there is to it.
If I can afford a website with a download link, an indie dev can too. I'll have to buy more bandwidth as sales ramp up and I get more traffic, sure.