I apologize if this post is redundant. I know this topic gets brought up periodically though I wasn’t able to find any very recent posts about it so that’s why I’m making a new one.
Basically, I’m having the age old issue of my game not being there at all when I search for it. I turned it public yesterday after a few months of development, and when searching for it’s exact name it doesn’t seem to be in the list whatsoever. I scrolled down for a good 5 minutes and never found it, which leads me to believe that it’s just literally not there at all right now.
I’m curious if there’s a chance that other people may actually see it when they search it’s name, and maybe the issue is just on my end? Also, perhaps there’s some problem with my description that I’m unaware of? I saw people talk about their descriptions causing indexing issues in the past and I made a couple changes myself but to no avail.
Perhaps the theme is too popular or your game didn’t get enough recognition yet. It could also just be a Roblox issue with publishing or with the search engine.
Just attempted to search your game, didn’t find anything at all unfortunately. I suggest you wait a bit, then check again, maybe the issue will fix itself (good ending).
I want to give an update on this and ask another question -
I emailed Roblox support and after explaining to them that my game 100% isn’t there when searching for it, they told me that that’s intended and flat out said “only popular experiences will be in search results”.
Is this true? How are you meant to get players lol. I planned to promote it on tiktok but how will people access the game? You can’t put a link in the tiktok description. This is genuinely bizarre to me lol.
Do you think it’d make it permanently searchable if i put a few dollars into ads for it?
I have a game Primal World I launched in 2021 that used to be in search as the #1 result when you searched for the game by name, it now no longer shows up at all in search.
I assumed this was because it’s a mostly dead game, I hadn’t updated it in a while, and I hadn’t done the questionnaire.
I did the questionnaire and I’m going to do some updates to see if it shows back up again.
I’m honestly not sure but I want to see if I can get it back in search just so I know for my current project.
This is actually very disturbing to even hear.
I also have a game that is not showing up and I actually at one time put a lot into advertising it.
It can’t really be “only popular games” because when I search for my game, the very first result showing up has about the same amount of visits as mine, less favorites, a lower rating, no players, and hasn’t been updated in years. The image on it is the same name as my game and I remember at one time it had really low visits and half wonder if money I spent on ads may have given that game visits when players searching by name couldn’t even find my game.
How would a game even get popular if players can’t even search it by name? Most of the people I know just search games as “favorites” is often cluttered and I can’t even always find games I’m looking for in there. I’m guessing a lot of people just type the name of the game in search.
I opened a support ticket and I was told to restart my computer. Apparently, Comcast tech support is also fielding tickets for Roblox.
How can a game ever become popular if you can not search it at all?
Not every player favorites every game and plays few enough games to use that as a mechanism to play it again.
If I play a game and I like it, most of the time I search that game to play it again. That’s how most people are.
I get relevancy and all that, but for example, when I search my game which I’ll admit I stopped developing for some time, the number one game that shows up hasn’t been updated since 2021, was less popular, has a lower like %, has less favorites, and it’s also dead.
What changed where Roblox is not allowing certain games to show up literally at all? I spent a good amount of money advertising my game and I’m pretty sure my advertising helped that game get plays too, especially since when it got them was when I was advertising. So why is my game suddenly gone like period?
How can my game ever get players again if no one can find it?
No game on Roblox should literally not show up at all anywhere in search when it is searched by the exact name of the game, period. That stops it from being a matter of whether the game is popular and becomes a factor that chooses the games removed from search can’t ever be popular.
It’s very frustrating that this is still happening months later. Have you recently advertised? I am wondering if advertising or sponsoring will fix this.