Why is my game popular? Last week i had 100 players and now I have 2.5k I’m not sure how this happend but i checked the User Acquisition and it seems to be because of search and discover but why is this happening as ive changed nothing and its all of a sudden being founded by new users? (Correct me if i used the wrong category)
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The only thing i added before it started getting popular was robux items in my game and I heard someone say it could because I was making robux of the game which is why it was getting popular.
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From what I know it’s because of the algoritm, lucky
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It could also be because of that
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Do you know anything about how the algorithm is controlled?
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Sick, it’s definitely because the game is being found by new players, just blowing up, basically.
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Nobody knows, it’s an algoritm, only the programmers and Roblox knows
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This is most likely due to you having a high retention rate.
This is an example from cj oyer’s 100 other games that he mixed in all his data.
as you see, the higher your day 1 retention rate, the higher you get boosted by the roblox algorithm, other factors such as time length also play a role. When making a game you want to head for 10% D1RR (day 1 retention rate) and around 10~ minutes of play length time.
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When making a game, you want your cost per player to be negative. thats how you make money. and for it to be negative, you can’t just do advertising because it is unsustainable. cost per visit when advertising is always more than what your gonna make from that user. advertising should only start your engagement engine, which is your games retention rates and time lengths. from there, if it is those stats are good, the roblox algorithm will automatically start boosting your player count. Also, never advertise for one day. That is the mistake I did with many of my games. Advertise throughout the week, start at Wednesday, Wednesday - Friday are usually the cheapest days to advertise due to other advertisers advertising on the weekends, bringing up the price per impression for your ad. Advertise for just 2 days, and try to put in enough money so that 1 server gets filled up. after 2 days, check back on your day 2 stats, or any stats which are linked to your full server, and you should have your accurate data of play length time based on your game with a full server. the roblox algorithm seems to take its time before boosting your game, so if you have a good retention rate, your gonna have to wait a few days. If you want to collect more data than what roblox displays, then what you can do is use http event to collect certain data such as players in server, what round they are in, what level, etc, and then send that to playfab, which then you can send that to some analytic visualizer like Power BI through a query, and you can get data from that. If you do this method, it will be much easier to dissect why players are leaving. There are tutorials on how to connect data to playfab, then to power bi. there are also other alternatives other than playfab such as firebase or google analytics. power bi is like excel but much more informative and it has it has much more automation tools so you don’t have to do many things automatically. Good luck!
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Wow, you are a business man! How did you figure taht out?
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Have you changed the description or game title? Sometimes when I do this it makes my game rank REALLY well in searches. Is someone advertising it or are you getting any bot players? Even a small amount of bot players makes Roblox think you have a popular game and ranks it well. (Almost like website SEO)
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This is because of the map, that is why the map has become famous, and because of its popularity, it is because of its appearance. Maybe this is because the shape has to be nice, in order for the player to play this map, and then it is famous because of the shape and because of the players, and maybe because of the players, it happens a lot (why are you asking about this thing, and this is a good thing)
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What? The map has been the same for 6 months and my game has been out for almost a year
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I mean… I added a heart symbol at the end of the title and changed the game icon. I haven’t changed any of the description for over a year
I don’t think i have any bots? I would never bot my own game and I don’t think anyone would bot someone elses game
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If no one plays this map, Roblox puts it to the players
I actually only just started advertising my game after it got 1k players and thats 1k per day, I’ve checked the numbers in the devloper stats and they aren’t from the ads I’m running.
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Then you must have a great advertisement
people may have seen your game or introduced to their friend, etc.
If you have those “invite your friends for benefits” or something similar, it may be because the players spammed every friend they have, helping you achieve an exponential rate in player visits (search/discovery)
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