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Major Updates are never getting indexed for my game + Question about best practices for staggered paid/public releases

A topic by CutePercentage created 96 days ago Views: 110
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Hello! I am the developer of an NSFW game.

I first published my game here on itch around 50 days ago. Since then, I pushed 2 'Major Updates' one of which was published 15 days ago and the latest one published 1-2 days ago. 

It's important to note that both of these updates added SUBSTANTIAL content to the game. The latest of the two added more than 2 hours of gameplay, including 40k+ words and more than 600 CG.

Neither of the two 'Major Updates' have been indexed (Shown in 'Most recent') for reasons that I'd like some clarification on if possible.

As I understand, there's some sort of preventative measures itch takes to avoid devs abusing the algorithm. I am curious if me pushing frequent but meaningful updates is actively hurting my exposure and if so, what would be the best way to handle things moving forward?


A follow-up question to the above:

If I want to have two versions of my game hosted on itch, one being  a paid, feature-enhanced version and the other being a delayed free public version, what would be the ideal procedure to stay on Itch's good side?


Thanks for reading through my concerns!

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