I understand. The thing is though most of the traffic that was coming in was overwhelmingly from the erotic tags. Like over 95% so I'm pretty sure those guys knew what they were getting into. My game is also clearly listed as "adult" in the description. I never assumed that the downloads and views would sustain that early level, but after it settled into its own niche and was getting consistent visibility for a few months, the fact that it cratered overnight does not seem like the usual trend to me.
The problem is that support hasn't made any communication about working on other issues. It's not very professional to simply ignore requests. And I'd think this qualifies as a technical issue, given how many developers on this site are dealing with the same thing
Thank you. I'll look over the tags and edit my profile but I'm not sure how you're saying that my game is visible in a search. Perhaps it's different for you because you're a moderator. Like I said, as a secondary user (non-dev/moderator), I can't find my game via search. Only way I can find it is through searching my name as a developer. Additionally, I can't find my game by searching its tags. It's hard for me to believe that visibility for my game would be stable for months and then suddenly drop 90% of its usual traffic overnight and that's considered normal? I'd have to imagine that there's a system issue.
I've emailed itch.io support countless times with this for almost two months now, and have yet to hear back once. Awful customer service and I've pointed out as much in my one-way conversations with them. When my game first launched, I was racking up views. It peaked at 800 a day, and slowly declined to a few hundred daily. It stayed like that for a few months. I reached a thousand downloads within a week. As an offline user, I was able to find the game relatively quickly given the tags, or if I searched for the name. I don't know what happened starting in May, but the visibility cratered. Coincidentally, it was around the time that I selected the "18+" option in meta-data. I could no longer find my game using its tags. When I'm logged off, I can no longer find the game by typing its name. I've been getting daily downloads of <10 a day for the past few weeks.
Any suggestions for what I can do? I doubt this is the natural course of visibility for most games on this site. Like I said, the views flatlined like it ran into a truck. Beyond removing the "18+ tag", I don't know what to do and any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Thanks man. I'm glad you noticed the job; I wanted the protagonist to have something of his own, instead of always revolving around the Walkers. Excited to show you what's coming.
Thanks man! The choices definitely impact the story. It's not a butterfly effect but it will lead to different outcomes, some of which won't be seen until later in the game.
Yeah sorry about that. I only have the latest mac version available right now which is patron-exclusive. In about a week, it'll be up for public downloads.
Haha thanks brother. I appreciate it. I was thinking about translating after a few updates just so there's more content to play. If you're available later on, I might reach out. Stay tuned for chapter 2 :)
