If your device is in Spanish, the description would be in Spanish.
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Exactly, It is that. way.
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The short and the skinny of this entire issue is that publishers and authors/designers have very little to no say in how the algorithms and backend processes work.
Having experienced different storefronts’ standard operating procedure over a long period of time, I guess I view things differently than most in this community.
Since I have no control over Apple, Google, Steam, or any other storefront, there are two things I can do that will insulate me from their “tinkering.”
The first thing I can do is concentrate on my product and ensure it is the best I can put forth.
The second is to ensure that my product is offered in as many storefronts as possible.
With Choice of Games increasing activity on Steam, I feel they are doing well in promoting everyone’s works as much as possible. This type of support is important to all of us and it is one of the reasons I am loyal to them both as a costumer and an author.
As Havenstone says:
The “rating system” deployed by a storefront at any given time is something that should not cause you (as in the community) to fixate on things so minuet that you lose sight of the larger picture – let your publisher (Choice of Games) work for you and let them add their voice to the other publishers/developers.
Even with a horde of developers screaming at them, the storefronts often do not respond to the feedback given them with regard to their algorithm; giving yourself anxiety and stress is just super-counter productive.
YMMV.
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I’m going to second not obsessing on ratings. My worst rated game has also sold by far the most copies, go figure. There seems to be a lot of other factors other than just ratings, and when it comes down to it, everyone’s in the same boat with changes google makes.
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But if we don’t obsess over revenue and ratings, we might actually start enjoying writing for writing’s sake. O.o
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I can do both 
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Lucky bastard. I can only do the former.
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why do i need internet after i download a game? or is this some kind of bug in the App¿?
@anon4518890 Is this in regards to the Choice of Games omnibus app?
edit: Disregard my previous question, lol. All of the CoG/Hosted Games apps should work offline. If it says otherwise, then I suggest you contact support as I’m afraid that this is outside the scope of what the forum can do to help.
CoG support email:
support(at)choiceofgames.com
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Ugh googles started capping the number of games that can be seen at 100 through both clicking on the company title and see more side bar now. It means a lot of games won’t be seen anymore without the omnibus.
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Well that sucks a bit, doesn’t it? Nothing about the changes they have made in the last year has been good for us, that’s for sure.
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A quick comment, almost half a year on from the change: I haven’t noticed any substantial difference in my sales trends since Google Play changed their review score algorithm, even though this dropped Rebels from a stable 4.5 to a steady 4.0. (I guess the proportion of disgruntled “where’s the sequel” reviews are only likely to grow with time…)
I realize my experience may not be the norm, but it suggests at least that the CoG/HG market need not be hyper-sensitive to Play Store scores… which would be encouraging, given the prevalence of “make it free” one-stars and Google’s tendency to switch things up.
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Add the games less than 3 star the omnibus. Problem solved.
The absolutely bizarre thing is that while Werewolves dropped from 4.7 to 4.2, my sales actually went up by a significant margin during that time. So perhaps my concern over ratings was a bit overstated. Lower ratings still annoy me, but a lot less now that I know they don’t have as much of an affect on the algorithm as I expected.
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Similar situation, in that the freebies (or at least that’s the term I’m going with for the folks who neg-bomb reviews over having to pay for a game) keep hitting the score for TPS, which is now down to 3.9, yet that platform’s still responsible for a crazy high amount of my earnings. Percentage-wise, standalone Google was 40% of purchases back during the first month of release when it was rated like 4.2-4.5 on the store, but even with the freebies chipping away at the score that percentage has kept climbing, to where last month just non-omnibus Google sales were 69% of all the buys that happened. Meanwhile, it’s at a 4.7 on the omnibus but that still yielded less than a quarter of purchases combined across all platforms that have an omnibus app. I think some of that may also be attributed to the name; The Parenting Simulator won out over Quite App-Parent because it was more direct and easily searchable, but that doesn’t help as much in a marketplace where purchases have to be funneled through a separate app.
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Yeah, the Google Play store has consistently been my biggest sales platform by far, easily selling 5 to 6 times as many copies as both the iOS and Android omnibuses combined. That’s why I was so freaked at the idea of removing the individual apps from GPS.