Rate groups?

http_gamesalad

Do you guys have any groups where people rate each other's games? Does game salad have something like that? I don't mind leaving rates in exchange if you leave a rate on my game. I don't know if I'm breaking guidelines on game salad forums because I'm asking for people to leave honest reviews on my game.

Adrenaline

I don't know what the policy is around here or on the app store now, but I tried something like this about 2 years ago for one of my games. Everyone claimed it was legit, but the reviews that were posted were clearly fluff and based on no play-time at all. So much so that I'm pretty sure Apple picked up on it and started removing those reviews. What ended up happening before I abandoned the thing was --- I would see notices that my game was reviewed through this service, but the reviews would never show up on my game's page. All while I was downloading and playing other people's games to pay it forward, so to speak. It was a big waste of time.

I'm vaguely remembering something like the game has to remain installed for X amount of days for the review to be posted...something like that. Clearly, people were installing, reviewing, uninstalling.

http_gamesalad

@Adrenaline I think someone on here started a Facebook group just for this. But if I ask people to leave an honest review on my game & return I'll do the same to them on the game salad forums I won't get flagged?

The_Gamesalad_Guru

@http_gamesalad said:
@Adrenaline I think someone on here started a Facebook group just for this. But if I ask people to leave an honest review on my game & return I'll do the same to them on the game salad forums I won't get flagged?

People post that all the time but I don't think they ever get much from it.

If I may offer you some advice as a veteran developer. You are too focused on this one game. One game isn't going to get you very far. You did a good job with it but It is time to move on and build your next idea and grow creativity and as a developer. There are still ideas and concepts you need to explore. This is really about you growing as a developer. You can't do that trying to force sucess from one game. The game business is hard. The idea is to build up a portfolio of games and then leverage that to your other titles. Time to find a bit of reality. Let this game be for a while and build something else. Trust me, you'll thank me later for this advice.