Post by Afloof.dev in How do major updates or launch posts get reveiwed?

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Is this your first paid project? If that’s the case it might take some time for the game to be reviewed before it is indexed and shown in the New section. Even if it’s not paid, it might be worth waiting a few days.

I also haven’t received any kind of feedback on if my post wasn’t approved as a major update or launch.

The general idea is that you publish your project, and at some point it will be indexed and shown on the site. Your game’s page is still public, so that shouldn’t interfere with any marketing plans.

I would really like to have game pages that exists during development and have dev updates and all that, but if I am not even certain that my game will be shown in the new sections when I launch, what’s the point?

A game is always refreshed in the New section when a “Major Update” devlog appears. I would imagine this is not instant, so it might be worth waiting a few days.

My advice would be to wait at least 4-5 business days before deciding something has gone wrong.

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DarkStone Digital5 years ago(+1)

I have multiple projects on here. A few have had pages that have existed for a while and I have had the same issue of them not being indexed into new categories after a major post. As I stated in my original post, its been about 6 days. I understand this is the weekend now but this isnt the first time.

The major update section states that it must be reviewed by itch. This implies some kind of human process.

I havent gotten any official reply on how this actually works. This is obviously an issue as it sucks to see my new game just lost under everything else after taking the time to have a long-standing page and post dev updates, etc.

I wouldn’t mind if this was the first time or if the process was a bit more transparent.

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Afloof.dev4 years ago(+1)

This is obviously an issue as it sucks to see my new game just lost under everything else after taking the time to have a long-standing page and post dev updates, etc.

I’m not sure what you mean by that, could you elaborate? Your game will get a bump in the “New” section once reviewed, no matter how much time that takes.

This shouldn’t cause any problem, unless someone plans to make “Major Update”s weekly, which sounds very wrong (at least to me).

I wouldn’t mind if this was the first time or if the process was a bit more transparent.

I agree to that, it does sound like it would be better for devs if the process was more transparent. However I can’t help but notice other marketplaces having a somewhat similar process. Maybe there’s a reason behind this decision that we are not exposed to.

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DarkStone Digital4 years ago(+1)

The issue is a game launch and trying to synchronize exposure across platforms and your various channels. If you have a date that you tell folks you’re launching your game, then you make a major update when the game is available to time with your launch and they take “some amount of time”. Your launch in terms of exposure is staggered.

That may not sound like much on a single itch game level but if you tell everyone everywhere your game is launching and someone heads to itch from word of mouth and has to dig for it on launch day, thats not ideal.

The issue is the nebulous time frame and no feedback on if your post is actually accepted after the curator process.

If they said “this takes 5 to 7 days” you can plan for that. If you get an email saying its rejected, you can plan for that too. But I’ve had 2 projects now where I’ve made major update posts and have never seen them in any new category at any point days or weeks later.

Transparency is the issue if no one has any answers as seems to be the case. Just perceptions of how it might work. I guess I can make suggestions on the itch discord for some level of information on this.

Its hard to buy in to being involved on the community side of dev blogs here if I’m potentially keeping my game from exposure by doing it instead of just making a page at launch.

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