It goes like this on steemit, in early days when we were all new on this platform there was way less competition and price was around 10 cents, so it was easier to get noticed, specially if only few of us made gaming blogs. Price went up 10-20x and everyone made quite a lot of profit, now the next step is more growth, and what ever you made in these few months will be worth 10x more (if steemit continues to grow).
English is not even my main language, and I managed to scoop up a lot of steem by being active in community and I managed to compress my 25 years of gaming experience into blogs written in not so perfect english, but as always first comers get the most out of new platforms like this. Now there are many more gaming bloggers and reward pool for everyone is smaller.
I still manage to get some support (wich as always I'm forever grateful) by staying fateful to steemit and by holding my steempower which I use to support other gaming bloggers and lots of old and new friends. But as I said there are many more people now and it takes time for me to notice new and quality bloggers.
I don't participate in curie or any curation trails, even though I could. I'm just one dude with limited attention span, after all I have to play those GAIMZ! :)
So have no fear, continue being great, you will get noticed by me or any other dolphin and whale sooner or later. And know this, there was never an easy money to be made, it always required some effort, these days even more. We can only imagine how things will look like after one million daily users.
Also I want to mention that steemit is not only about one particular area, you can explore other topics and find so many interesting blogs out there about life, finance, art, in short everything, the potential is limitless. Keep it up and have faith in Steemit, after all we are still in beta, and as we gamers all know beta is just the beginning!