How do we save struggling indie devs?
good indie games sell on all platforms. hollow knight, undertale, goose game, obra dinn, furi.. if your indie is overshadowed by other better games, maybe it deserves it?..
Is that bypass where your game is at the top if you set it at 1 cents still there, even when you set it at its regular price after?
a lot of indie devs report great sales from switch maybe yer game just sucks ya faggot
my advertising budget? oh yes, it's $0
if a product falls, it wasn't meant to sell
add a rating system of some kind
if you can't sell your game on Switch maybe your game is pure fucking garbage?
On the one hand, the Switch eshop could definitely do with some pruning. I'm sure there are some high-end autists who would love to figure out what is shameless shovelware cash-grabs and what are actual indie games that people put effort into.
On the other hand, claiming you can't sell your game on the eShop requires some control group to suggest you could sell it anywhere at all
I agree
truth hurts
OP's faggot is prolly thinking his games are successful because a few steam drones are buying his game in bulk because that's what steam drones do, they're more interested in making a massive list of games instead of actually playing them
how about making good video games?
Not to discourage game devs, but these people are deluded into thinking that because they’re following their hearts and working on passion projects, their time and hard work will pay off. Gaming is a business industry just like any other. A good, quality product will sell with smart advertising and the right outreach. They need to let people have tastes/glimpses of their products prior to release. They need to be spending just as much time talking about their game and showing it off as they do making it.
this is the switch were talking about
Which developer is crying about what game?
They tried to copy Nintendo, unfortunately indie devs don't have mindless Nintendo drones buying their shitty games.
The eshop is pretty bloated, yeah.
I'm honestly disgusted that the shovel ware is allowed on there at all. Can't even filter it out.
Switch's eshop designs is terrible like 70% worse than the wiiu's and game get buried eaven easier than steam. Even botw and mario would be impossible to find if not for the search bar
by that logic, anything that isn't bing bing wahoo nintendo shit is garbage, because that's the only thing that sells on nintendo platforms.
moon sold a fuckton
other devs have already said they're giving up on sony platforms because 95% of their sales come from switch
if you can't sell on switch, you're the problem
>because that's the only thing that sells on nintendo platforms.
But it isn't. Fuck your thread, and probably fuck your game too because I can only imagine it sucking.
I just use DekuDeals's wishlist to filter it out. The UI is fucked, too.
umm why is my newgrounds tier no name game not selling hello???? isn't gaming profitable???
Indieshit who cares? I rather emulate a 15 year old JRPG than play that crap.
Pretty much this yeah. Isn't the Switch the BEST place for indie devs?
The switch storefront is pretty terrible to be fair
Considering how things are priced, one sale on Switch is probably worth like three sales on Steam
We don't. Trash sinks to the bottom.
Teach them how to make good games.
Yeah, this. Practically all indie games in recent memory that became big hits ended up with the highest numbers on Switch. The Switch eShop is inexcusably bad, but if your game sold more on other systems than the Switch then it's some kind of weird outlier, and you probably shouldn't assume the eShop is the only factor in its Switch failure.
I check recent releases and coming soon tabs almost every day and I'm sure I'm not alone in that. Maybe your game just didn't look exciting.
How do you get nintendo to improve their eshop interface?
Remove all the mobile garbage from eshop, yeah cool I can get uncensored games on switch but without any kind of QC what's the point.
Wow your shit, quick android port is on sale -90% as if the game was free on mobile, good job.