Post by redonihunter in multiple downloads shortly after release with far less sales.

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Itch counts as a download each time they try to start the download

This is useful information. Is this observation or confirmed?

My expectancy would have been, that it needs to be completed downloads. And maybe even unique completed downloads.

Or at least unique downloads, if incomplete download count.

It skews and misleads statistics, if there is trouble on the network. Like a few months ago.

My guess would have been additional downloads for a mobile device. From quickly glancing at the titles it looked more like comics and not games.

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hechelion250 days ago(+1)

This is useful information. Is this observation or confirmed?

Both, it has been said several times in the forums and if you have doubts you can try, take a free game of yours.

Open an incognito window, try downloading the game twice and cancel the download before it finishes and check the itch metrics again.

They show 2 downloads, but the game was never really downloaded.

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redonihunter249 days ago

Good to know. (I, uh, uhm, I cannot test this. The stuff I uploaded so far is 5kb ;-)

But the download has to have started, I hope. Must be so. Otherwise, how should the counter know, which file was downloaded.

Oh, and for anyone landing here by searching comments: browser games played in the itch app can show up as downloads, even though they are not downloadable.

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