Appoday?

[HTWGames]

Spend your money on a marketing team for that much rather than some scam that gives your apps away for free... It's not worth the effort to hand out that many pieces of software to people to hope your exposure or your word of mouth extends anywhere past the eyes of the person downloading the game.

With all the app trackers out there no one will talk about your game enough to get back the 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars you're forking out in free software. They will just rape you of your work and then move on to the next days offering. This just isn't working for devs...

[DannyTheElite]

Originally Posted by HTWGames

Spend your money on a marketing team for that much rather than some scam that gives your apps away for free... It's not worth the effort to hand out that many pieces of software to people to hope your exposure or your word of mouth extends anywhere past the eyes of the person downloading the game.

With all the app trackers out there no one will talk about your game enough to get back the 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars you're forking out in free software. They will just rape you of your work and then move on to the next days offering. This just isn't working for devs...

I am not a dev but +1 to that point.
Also reward (right word?) early adopters not put it free or on sale a month after it releases
I am happy to pay so long as I get at least 3 months before it goes on sale.

[HTWGames]

Originally Posted by DannyTheElite

I am not a dev but +1 to that point.
Also reward (right word?) early adopters not put it free or on sale a month after it releases
I am happy to pay so long as I get at least 3 months before it goes on sale.

yeah it's unfortunate that putting your game on sale isn't just for the sake of creating and driving interest through a discounted price, but you have to consider the immediacy of a release... when it comes out you can see how well you're doing almost up to the hour. If you aren't seeing any movement then you will sink further into the muck of the app store.

More importantly though when you switch to a lower price you get picked up by price bots that blast out to everyone that your app has lowered in price. That is free blanket marketing right there that will allow you to be exposed...so don't take it personally when you see something like that happen. It's just the dev trying to manipulate the app trackers out there to give them free advertising in the lists.