I was really wondering why Caveman Test was doing so poorly the app isn't being ranked. For some reason the app is not moving in any direction on the charts. It all became very clear when I sold 3 games to Kuwait and 2 to Romania and no movement in the charts. 3 games in Kuwait would put you somewhere on the top 100 list in most categories. Went through 70 promo codes to get some forward movement but that didn't help because nothing is registering. Still Caveman Test isn't being ranked. I emailed Apple hopefully they will fix it tomorrow. It is hard enough to make a go at this even without these problems.
Sorry I misplaced this (again) was supposed to go with the A side experiment. Also never got a response if any one had an app that wasn't being ranked.
You do have a chance of being successful. Just remember, the quality of the app is important too. Too many people are naive and think success is all about marketing.
Singularity42, Great comment! 100% with you on your statements! The starting point of the success of an app is content based. Great content is easier to market effectively. Caveman Test is a very good game and it is different and unique. Caveman test is still dead in the water not moving anywhere even after several emails. It is selling in some strange countries and again no movement. E mails have gone out to iTunes but no response yet.
Something must be going on. I listed Caveman test under entertainment. My 2 game categories (second choices) are gone. Kind of wondering if we are only going to get one category to chose from? Maybe this will be the change that is coming up? Caveman Test listing under entertainment is gone too. So the game isn't listed. No listings and no rankings? Hard to make it work when iTunes isn't doing its part.
Yeah something is futzed up. We had chalkboard stunts listed under racing and arcade, and it's gone from both lists. It's hard enough to sell on the damn app store without Apple not showing it at all! I can still search for the app, and it shows up.. it's just not listed anymore. VERY annoying.
Thank you! Now I know I am not alone with this issue. I can still search for Caveman Test as well. But it isn't listed anywhere? Very odd!
sam the lion, if you had the courtesy of trying out Caveman Test before making a stupid comment like this you might be pleasantly surprised. Also, as the person who has invented the puzzle (Str8ts) that has a really good chance of becoming the next Sudoku I think I am pretty good at what I do.
woops... sorry. It was supposed to be kinda humorous. What I meant was that your games are generally good, and reading the "A and B sides of the store" discussions I understood that it was a simpler entertainment app, but I didn't really look at it (my bad), so I might be entirely wrong. Clearly the joke didn't came out the way I wanted... my sincere apologies, I did not intend to offend.
Sorry Sam the Lion, It probably was my fault since this comment is out of character to what you regularly post. Lost in translation. Again I should have asked you to explain yourself before barking out loud. Wasn't a great week with this Caveman Test madness. I generally don't get mad at anything but having a game sit in the dark for over a week is frustrating to say the least.
No, it was definitely my fault because of the inappropriate post in a "serious" thread about a real issue. But I'm glad we cleared things up
I'm also having the exact same problem and it started on Feb. 23. Emailed and called but the issue stills exists! Did this get resolved for you?
Caveman Test is showing up in the listings now, but it is still not being ranked. Apple sent me an email explaining all the ins and outs of the ranking system and are telling me it should be working. I gave away some more promo codes to see if I could push the game up the chart and again no movement anywhere in the world. Very frustrating.
Yeah I'd love to hear what they told you as well. I wrote to them about us not being in the list at all and they responded with: "This transient issue has now been resolved. The release date section of each category page on the App Store is now updating correctly and we apologize for any inconvenience. We are unable to modify your released date display at this time." So now chalkboard stunts is showing up again as being released on Feb 5th, but still waiting for our lite version to show up for the 24th.
Strange.. When I click "browse" in iTunes(the generic\no icon view) my app is listed along with your chalkboard stunts lite with the correct release dates. Unfortunately 99.9% of users probably do not use this route. Still missing from the main icon view listings. Just a quick check seems to show 20-40% of the apps are missing after switching the view. Is this normal?
