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Why do you want to make an iOS/Android version when the game isn't very popular right now? You mention the competition will be a lot higher so why do you think it will be worth it?
> Features: > New update = new bugs > Poor graphic and sounds I have to say the first two "features" aren't doing you any favors. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1404560/Yerba_Mate_Tycoon...
There's an interesting GDC talk about this for folks who are curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WycVOCbeKqQ
I threw $5 your way because I wanted to support you. That said, some feedback: 1. The price is too high. I'm sorry, I know this sounds cheap at $5. But you're competing with the entire world of iOS games. For free, I can get endless kinds of games like this, but with in game purchases. Some of those, like Cardinal Quest 2, are actually amazing and the ingame purchases don't get in the way at all. I think if you price…
On PC $5 is good price, not too low (like $1 or $2), not too high like $20-$30. Feedback from players mostly say, that the game price should be higher.
I fell bad for all the awesome indie devs out there now that the market is saturated. I remember the early days of Steam and Android when low quality asset flips would make $10k easily. New niches appear every year though, like the VR market that's desperate for content.
Congratulations on commercializing the game. Are you a one person operation? I know how hard can it be to develop, publish, deal with game stores... This is a great deal that you were able to launch and sell. Kudos
Incredible progress he's making. Ten "failures" that he's learned tons from. He's going to be hugely successful if he keeps this up!
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Why are they wannabes? I don't understand why you would insult people who are trying to put out a product but failing.
They are wannabes because it makes the author of the parent comment feels better. Anyone who isn't objectively the best at something is probably automatically a wannabe. So at the end of the day it's just a wannabe calling everyone else wannabe. Don't waste time on understanding people like that.
Some people just want to make great games, don't care about getting famous, etc.; they're not wannabes.
Some people want to do a job, get paid; they're not wannabes.
Some want to be famous and rich, and have the chops to go with it; they're not wannabes.
@Karsteki, I don't think it's intended as an insult, it's more "being realistic, most people making games won't succeed because 'everyone' wants to succeed and most don't really have what it takes".
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I've heard this before, mainly from "hustle culture" folks, but have never witnessed it in real life. I've followed quite a few people, both online and IRL, who have persevered through repeated failure, motivated by "passion" and convinced that success was around the corner. Almost none of them achieved success. Instead, they ended up burned, jaded and in a few cases even genuinely suicidal. As someone else mentioned…
The biggest problem with "hustle culture" is that they praise each others effort rather than results. Like in this case, 10 failed games is a lot of effort but aren't good results. And if you look at the reviews and where he got traffic on this game they mostly come from other gamedev communities, meaning he sold to other developer hustlers interested in his journey rather than to real users. At this stage what he ne…
Not sure if it has been mentioned yet, but I think the main reason why this title failed is the title. Most people probably never heard of "yerba mate", so to them, the title sounds like some kind of weird mating simulator. You can verify this by comparing the sales by country to the number of searches for the term "yerba mate" by country: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=yerba%20mate The distributions are…