Why this game isn't more popular and hasn't more patrons?
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Lack of promotion and marketing:
- It would be easy to say that this game isn't more popular because it hasn't incest and has a female protagonist, but some other games have those same qualities and they receive a lot more patronage. That's the case of Fashion Business. Why is that? Despite of the differences in popularity in F95ZONE are not that huge, FB is above 4M views and this one is above 3M, the differences in Patreon are enormous:
stoper has 420 patrons and decent-monkey has 1528 patrons, almost 4 times more. And the earnings could be 6 or 7 times more, DM offers an extra version only for patreons and he has patreon levels till $50, stoper only till $25.
One of the reasons is that meanwhile DM has a webpage of his game and has a russian public which download it in russian forums and web pages too, it seems that JOHN is promoted almost only here, depends mostly of this thread. And
stoper doesn't seem to pay too much attention for increasing its visibility. The game is translated into spanish, great. But is it reaching the hispanic public? Is it being promoted in hispanic sex game forums? Are there a big hispanic sex games public? We already now that the russians are a huge public, an investement in a russian translation would be proper.
- Stoper doesn't show preview renders of the updates. Why? Meanwhile DM shows one preview render of the next update per week, stoper only shares random images. I have read comments like: "Seeing those previews I'm decided to become a patreon". Besides, showing previews mantains the public hooked in the story, they will make comments in the thread about that and it will be more active, then more views, more new players. Showing previews doesn't mean make spoilers necessarily. For example, we already know that Heather and Jessica will meet in the fitness center next time, you could show a preview of that and you are not spoiling nothing.
- Stoper underestimates basic things like how is the game presented to new players. In the OP, the banner, for example, isn't suggestive, it doesn't insinuate an erotic VN, it looks more from a drama one. There are staff members here who make banners for free, just ask one of them. The selection of previews is poor too, only four random images and they don't tell you much. Basically you are not creating expectation through them. Showing nudity isn't mandatory, but at least show sexy images, close-ups and intimacy. Show more girls, Jessica with different looks and try not to put long shots. Use images that insinuates something according to the game tags: voyeurism, lesbian, cheating, etc. Many people start to play a game just because they saw an image or a character they liked.
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Put all the fan signatures in the OP, so more people can use them. Sometimes I play a new game just because I saw a signature for another user.
To be continued...