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Get Rid of Upvotes In New Releases

A topic by Hoiby created Sep 01, 2025 Views: 215 Replies: 3

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I think that in the New Releases topic on the forum there shouldn't be upvotes on posts. I was trying to look for a new game, but it wasn't at the top of the page, but buried beneath five other games. The problem with this is that the New Releases topic might be one of the biggest sources of traffic for a lot of games where the developer did no other marketing, so why should the game get buried beneath other games? Does anyone else agree with me on this?

Edit: I just checked and a new release actually had 16 games above it.

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SisCalypsis102 days ago

the New Releases topic might be one of the biggest sources of traffic for a lot of games where the developer did no other marketing

I'm...not sure where you'd be getting this idea from? My experience is that I tend to pull a decent number of upvotes, enough not to immediately sink to the bottom, and that gets me maybe 3 or 4 click-throughs from my Release Announcements link. Fewer click-throughs than people who bothered to upvote it.

Posting there is harmless and you might as well do it, but I think you're massively overestimating how much of a difference it makes, and without upvotes I'd expect fewer people to even bother to check the forum in the first place. Besides, people would sink pretty quickly there either way--it looks like there's been 4 new release announcements right now in the past hour alone.

If you want the benefits of marketing, you have to do marketing, unfortunately.

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TheMetalCarrotDev102 days ago

Much as I’d like things to be easier… I 100% agree.

Probably like 3-4 clicks unless you have an existing audience. And without an upvote system, you also don’t have that element that has the chance of a small creator getting more featured.

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Hoiby101 days ago

I guess you're right about it being a way to for small creators to get featured. I got the idea of it being a large source of traffic because I was counting post views as visibility, because it kind of is. I saw about 10-20 views on average of the posts, and I could reasonably see that as being half of a game's views if the creator decides that that is all the marketing that is needed. Even though it might not be game page views, I still count it as traffic because it serves the same purpose as a game page, (which is trying to sell someone on your game) but it just takes an extra click.

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