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Call for data: your Steam wishlist to follower ratio! by Simon Carless on 02/11/21 10:38:00 am     The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.   [The GameDiscoverCo game discovery newsletter is written by ‘how people find your game’ expert & GameDiscoverCo founder Simon Carless, and is a regular look at how people discover and b...

GamesIndustry.biz column that has never before appeared on GamesIndustry.biz! It's actually been almost a decade since This Week in The Business started running on Kotaku as an easily digestible collection of quotes and statistics pulled together with brief descriptions intended for a consumer audience. After a lengthy run there, it moved to our sister site USgamer in 2019 under the slightly shorter moniker "This Week in Business." Much to our dismay, USgamer was shut down last month. But we were still pretty fond of the column, so the decision was made to finally bring it home and introduce...

Nintendo has closed a loophole on the Switch’s eShop, which allowed titles to appear on top of the store’s charts by gaming the system. The Switch eShop ranks games by the number of sales over a 14-day period, regardless of how much that game costs. As such, this has incentivised deep discounts to boost a game’s rankings and get it on top of the store’s charts tab, increasing its exposure. Before then raising the price in order to capitalise on the high chart position. A more extreme version of this was the ‘100 per cent discount’ loophole. The store allows sellers to apply discou...

Steam gets 'experimental' with discovery by Simon Carless on 12/14/20 12:13:00 am     The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.   [The GameDiscoverCo game discovery newsletter is written by ‘how people find your game’ expert & GameDiscoverCo founder Simon Carless, and is a regular look at how people discover and buy video game...