I recently released a game and all seemed well right before this Pilot Home update. The first 3 weeks of my game’s release consisted of only my core discord audience since I got NO home page recommendation impressions. After those 3 weeks, my game FINALLY started to get recommended to new players and my CCU and home impressions were steadily growing. Fast forward to this home update and my CCU and recommended impressions have dropped over 5x. This is incredibly debilitating to see considering all the work and time I’ve spent to create my game and keep up with updates this month. So I would like to voice some things:
We acknowledge that growing your initial audience is hard, particularly for new and unique types of experiences. This pilot is a first step in awarding initial impressions to new and recently updated experiences so that we can better match them with the right audience.
This home update made this process harder. I have a new and actively updating game and the game has gotten punished due to this update. Therefore, whatever claim that is trying to be made here has either failed or just flat out not followed.
I go to my home page and what do I see? I see 8 games with crazy CCUs and games that I have seen being recommended for years. This is not the purpose of this update as stated above.
I would like to know what changes are being made and what to expect. It’s gotten to the point where I will not update my game or work on the platform until this update is more situated. All the work I have done for the last 6 months has felt lost, and further work at the moment does not reward me at all.