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Oh come on. It's a perfectly valid point. For everyone who has a successful game there are probably thousands of people who don't. It does no one any good at all to suggest that all you have to do is believe in yourself. You also have to make a good product, and generally just be lucky.
Plenty of people rightfully don't go into video game development because they cannot afford to not earn their money back, if you are lucky enough to be able to risk it, then absolutely go for it, but if you were living paycheck to paycheck it unfortunately isn't a reasonable ambition.
Not every game will be successful, on this we fully agree. But for every successful product there will be effort that needs to be expended. There will be struggles and failures along the way and criticisms will abound. The point that I take from the post is that it's not worth giving into the negativity and let that detract from your efforts. "Don't take the negativity too seriously" is a perfectly valid message, against which the "survivorship bias" criticism is poorly levied.
The takeaway here isn't and shouldn't be quit your job and pursue your dreams in all scenarios.