Over the past week, I’ve noticed a considerable drop in homepage impressions and random spikes where I would suddenly gain or lose hundreds of CCU in a short span of time. On Saturday, July 5th, my game peaked at around 1,400 CCU. The Saturday before this, June 28th, my game peaked at about 2,600 CCU, a drop of over 1,000 CCU compared to last week despite maintaining very similar metrics.
( I had 5,552,746 impressions June 28th and 2,233,862 impressions July 5th)
Now it gets even weirder. On July 6th at around 1 AM GMT+1, I was at roughly 1,000 CCU. One hour later, at 2 AM GMT+1, the CCU jumped a ton to around 2,100. Exactly 24 hours later from the jump, on July 7th at 1 AM GMT+1, I was at around 2,400 CCU and kept a steady player count throughout the day (peaking near 4k CCU) but one hour after this at 2 AM, my CCU dropped sharply to around 1,400.
This hasn’t just affected my game, it’s affected games in a pretty similar niche to mine. Field Trip Z for example on July 6th, 1 AM, had roughly 2100 CCU. 1 hour later at 2 AM they jump from 2100 > 3100. Now just like me they maintain a steady player count throughout the day (peaking near 4k) up until around 24 hours later from the initial jump. July 7th, At 1 AM, they had roughly 3400 CCU, 1 hour later that number massively decreases to 2400.
There is a couple other games affected by this but I won’t be listing them all as that would take ages, algorithm is all over the place
my game:
field trip z:
edit: this appears to be fixed