>“Last sale, I made over $2,000,” the developer wrote. “This one I’ve barely made $200. Thank you.”
>Developers are chalking this up not just to wishlist issues, but also changes in the way Steam recommends games, as well as changes to the structure of the sale itself. Nepenthe and To The Dark Tower developer Yitz pointed to Steam’s data on his games, which showed that the “vast majority” of his store page traffic came from outside Steam, as opposed to from built-in recommendation systems like the front page, the discovery queue, tags, and games’ “more like this” sections. Data from the first half of 2018, meanwhile, shows less than 20 percent of his traffic coming from external sites, while over half came from within Steam. This, Yitz says, has been an issue since October 2018, when a Steam algorithm bug caused big games to make big gains in traffic while small games lost out. While Valve said in December that the issue had been fixed and the flow of traffic re-normalized, some developers say their games never recovered. Yitz is in this camp.
>“Before October 2018 (and for a few months after that while I gave Steam the benefit of the doubt), I told anyone who asked me that Steam was 100% worth it for indie developers,” he said in a Twitter DM. “Now, that trust is gone, and it’s not because I’ve changed or become more cynical... This Steam sale was a disaster, but I’m far more concerned about the overall trend we’ve seen in the Steam algorithm since October last year: pushing unpopular (including ‘mostly negative’ reviewed) triple-A games over titles that Steam has more than enough data to know would be a better match for the consumer.”
This has already been posted numerous times, and it's kotaku. kill yourself.
Ian Lopez
Who gives a damn. Fuck off back to shitaku, you bitch. I don't care about someone elses profit margins. Thread hidden. >this kills the shills
Benjamin Martin
Can someone turn this bot off already?
Carter Ross
Reminder that Epic shill shitposting is done by an INCREDIBLY mentally ill shitposter that only makes threads on Yea Forums to bait (You)s and shit up the board. boards.fireden.net/v/search/image/WSy_ouMSe8D9vnJxSM7clA/ Here he fucks up during posting the shitpost copypasta for Monster Hunter World with a picture that he uses for Epic shill copypasta: boards.fireden.net/v/thread/469888450/#469893201 Furthermore: boards.fireden.net/v/search/image/VUZPRTcNwwesiYdQAjFhkw/ And you can expect the OP to quickly become a copy paste for him to spam as well. The mods have confirmed that this guy is a huge autist that uses proxies to evade range bans and creates endless shitty threads, because he has nothing better to do with his life.
hes not even exclusively a nintendo fag hes one of those shitposters that just shits on everything to bring down the overal board quality
Daniel Richardson
>no archive >kuckaku Imagine being so pathetic that you get paid to viral market on this via honeypot rather than stacking shelves or flipping burgers
Eli Brown
I haven't bought anything from a sale in years. Fuck valve and steam and gaben.
Samuel Powell
Download my fucking launcher already
William Rivera
I feel like there are multiple people like this on this board, and it's really sad that they have so much power here just because the mods are fucking useless.
Robert Kelly
This wouldn't have happened if they go to Epic Store instead.
Carson Lopez
yeah, then they would have had 0 sales.
Jaxson Evans
Wait, is this the same guy that picks a new game to shitpost about now and then? I'm pretty sure he's being doing this shit for fucking years.
John Powell
i wont be surprised if this guy alone contributes to 20% of the shitposting on Yea Forums
Landon White
Yeah, with the 20 games on their store and its already impossible to find anything due to their retarded store design.
Jason Parker
how many times are you going to repost the same thread, epicuck? nobody cares about some retarded devs' shit games not selling
