Posted August 05, 2024 by Strange Girl Studios
Hi everyone.
I'll be honest and real for a moment.
For the past few months, since Itch banned us from the ranking pages of tags and searches, things have not gone well in our studio.
We lost almost 90% of our traffic and revenue, which really affected our finances and our ability to properly compensate our team members, which resulted in a lot of them leaving and joining other studios, or starting their own. They're all talented and I don't want to promise them something I can't guarantee, especially with the state of things with Itch io.
Now, we're still working on our games.
Despite the lack of considerable manpower and skill required, we're still working on our games.
However, we're burnt out.
I'm burnt out.
We've released a few updates since the shadowban and they received some decent success, but not quite good and honestly very far from the response we were getting before the shadowban.
This is really not helping us, especially since working on them for months without any end-game reward is making us all very upset.
Anyway, the point of this post and poll is to ask you guys what you think of our situation and how we'll move forward.
Whatever you guys decide we'll deeply consider and we would appreciate it.
Cheers,
~SG