The Friendly Monster
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Yesterday I released my Android game Total Pool. I did the usual stuff you would expect to promote it myself. I linked to the Google Play page on my Facebook, G+, NeoGAF, xda, my housemate stuck it on reddit.
The results as of 30 minutes ago:
Too early to be a failure but not setting the world on fire, and one of those downloads is mine.
As a little experiment I also put it on The Pirate Bay, a well known torrent site, later in the evening. All I wrote was "Shit hot pool game on Android" and a link to the Google Play Store. Now although there is a paid version this game the torrent was just to download the ad-supported one.
After an hour I was seeding happily.
And as of 30 minutes ago I had seeded 744mb, at the very lowest possible estimate where I have seeded every single mb that people have downloaded this puts the total number of people with the game from bittorrent at 50 (a more realistic estimate at least doubles this).
So what am I saying? Piracy (attempted) is more popular than legitimacy? Google's store is a failure? I have no friends? My game is shit rather than shit-hot?
I don't really know, and to be honest I was kind of expecting this, I think that makes it worse.
The results as of 30 minutes ago:
Too early to be a failure but not setting the world on fire, and one of those downloads is mine.
As a little experiment I also put it on The Pirate Bay, a well known torrent site, later in the evening. All I wrote was "Shit hot pool game on Android" and a link to the Google Play Store. Now although there is a paid version this game the torrent was just to download the ad-supported one.
After an hour I was seeding happily.
And as of 30 minutes ago I had seeded 744mb, at the very lowest possible estimate where I have seeded every single mb that people have downloaded this puts the total number of people with the game from bittorrent at 50 (a more realistic estimate at least doubles this).
So what am I saying? Piracy (attempted) is more popular than legitimacy? Google's store is a failure? I have no friends? My game is shit rather than shit-hot?
I don't really know, and to be honest I was kind of expecting this, I think that makes it worse.