Here’s a few things I can suggest based on my personal experience:
Make sure to edit your creator’s profile. Once someone lands on that page, that means they are excited to see more of your work, and currently it looks pretty underwhelming for the amount of games you’ve got.
I took a look at some of your games, I’d suggest editing the game’s page to look more attractive. When a user lands on that page, that means they are considering if they will invest in your work. If they see a blank page, with little effort, it’s only natural to think that the game might follow a similar path.
Make some social media profiles. Every time you publish something new (a medium-big update for a game or a new game altogether) also make a post on all social media, linking to that game.
Try to establish some kind of consistency. A creator that has been making a new game every 6 month, of increasing quality, for the past 5 years, looks way more attractive and have more future potential than someone that made 3 games 5 years ago, and 5 more games this year.
Try to spend extra time on the cover images of your games. By looking at the image, a user should get an idea of what the game is about, but also what quality to expect. A low quality cover signals to the users that the game possibly follows the same quality.
Apart from these, there are options where you can pay to have your games advertised, but I haven’t tried any such route yet, so I don’t have an opinion on how effective they are.
For starters, you should write some better descriptions, take actual screenshots, use the tag system, rethink your pricing strategy… Wait a second… This seems awfully familiar. Oh that’s right: You asked for advice one or two days ago and then ignored it. (”[…] to me my free games do not require good looks”)
That is your competition. Think about that.
Also: “this might work but no” is not an adequate response to someone (some might even consider it “toxic”), even if you disagree with them. If you had any kind of point (which I at least consider a possibility) you have failed to make it. Just as a piece of life advice: If you act like that towards your classmates you will probably get beaten up sooner or later.
Okay, last reply and then I’ll stop. First off: This sub-forum was made for discussions. It is literally called “General Discussion”. You cannot expect others to stop their discussion if they think they could still contribute something - especially not on the sole basis on disagreeing with your opinion. And asides from one person in this thread, nobody here is trying to “force” their opinion on others.
With that out of the way to the reason I felt I owe you one more post: I am sorry for assuming and saying you had “classmates”. That was what I said. I never said you were a kid. People can have classmates as adults as well.
But there is truth to what you said: I thought it would be beneficial for your future if I included that piece of advice under the assumption that you were a minor - but without addressing it directly. But the reason for me thinking that was not your use of the English language; it was what you said that lead me to honestly believe you weren’t an adult. If we would have had this conversation in your first language I would have made the same assumption.
… This is the part where I would normally give you advice on how to improve your use of the English language or how to have a better experience when translating text.
Goodnight.
I feel the need to point something out for those not in the know (which are most likely most of the current readers): About 5 days ago AGuyLikeMatt took on the challenge to make 7 games in 7 days which is incredibly taxing work. Due to this their last few games would not be representative of their full potential.
AGuyLikeMatt made my point exactly: It might sound harsh to you, but as of now, you have nothing worth advertising for, co390. Even if your games were better than (just as an example) Disco Elysium, your presentation is so lackluster that your store page will drive the vast majority of readers away.
We are telling you this because we want to help you to improve - not because we’re “toxic”. At this point, I have read 2 of your “Please make my games sell better”-posts, but you ignored every piece of advice that was offered.
From my perspective you seem very young, so I’ll say this: Currently, you are starting out. Everyone is bad when they just started doing something. Getting batter takes practice, effort and time. It’s part of being human. You should not feel bad about having to improve - and you certainly shouldn’t push away the people who have shown their willingness to help you. We are taking the time out of our lives to respond to you not because we want to “win an argument” or something. But if you have no interest in putting the effort in - why should we?
And it is the same with your games: If you don’t care what users think about your game when they look at it on the store page - why should they care about your game?
Truth be told, I’m archiving this thread for my own personal use (so I don’t forget why I made a note to not respond to co390 anymore if I can help it), because I doubt any admin or mod would be in any mood to sort this out in detail with co390 behaving the way they are. Nothing good can come of this “discussion” anyway at this point. And honestly: I wouldn’t want future users having to read through this thread in its entirety. :/
Hm… Normally I would ask you to point out the parts that were offensive to you - but I already know you wouldn’t respond.
Here’s something else you can report on, that might actually have a chance of getting removed:
Dear co390,
My time and effort spend with you were clearly wasted. I can see that now and feel sorry and foolish for trying against my better judgement.
I also suggest that you show this thread to your parents for emotional gratification.
Goodnight.
