problem is marketing methods change over the time .. simply because things change over the time
it seems that nowadays it's streamers and influencers opinion that people go for
otherwise there is just too much noise 🤔
if you want your game to be really popular you need to get really popular yourself first
like I see countless youtube channels with people working on unity games for years
posting their progress and such - with seemingly no chance of them ever finishing it
but gathering thousands and thousands of subscribers
now of course many yt channels will never get there
and I'm not sure those who did how they did it
but being attractive and popular irl seem to help 🤔
it seems to be a catch of 22 to be honest - it is often said you need money to make money
I guess it's true for other things - you need popularity to make more popularity 🤔