YOU – "It's called Crimeposting, Kim. It's disco."
KIM KITSURAGI – The detective looks at you for a long time. The questions on his face stop just short of accusing you of being "uncool".
EMPATHY [Trivial: Success] – He's trying to decide how he can best dissuade you from Crimeposting. Don't let him distract you, Harry boy.
YOU – "Besides, look what I can do."
KIM KITSURAGI – "Are you doing it right now?"
so I saw this and I was like. 1. please devs don't do that, don't ever do spec work
but 2. I was like what the fuck is atari doing lately
the answer is "a lot of crypto" which is unsusprisingly tanking, but also uh wow a thing I didn't realize is that they're doing the financial equivalent of scraping the boat along the bottom of the river and have been doing that for YEARS
That image shows a total operating loss of 33 million euros over the last two years. According to the rest of the doc they managed to raise about 45 mil this year by 1: taking on a 10 million euro loan, and 2: selling 30 million euros in stock-equivalent bonds. 15 million of that immediately went to set-off, which is a polite way for "you defaulted on a DIFFERENT loan so they're allowed to direct-deposit the money from your bank account to theirs"
This is some pretty impressive financial shenanigans and uhhh suffice it to say I'm going to be fascinated to hear how they plan to survive 2-3 more years like this
Anyway they just acquired nightdive studios so I'm sure THAT'S fine and they're going to be fine
imagine 200 people
walkin down the street
woooaghhh
that is all the people
that's the highest number
of people
there can be
me and many other gay itch devs friens have been annoyed by people making accounts for the sole purpose of spamming 1 star reviews on lgbt projects, going through every single submission for a person and giving a bad review (like i had PAID projects that werent even purchased but still got 1 star reviews loll)
so if youre a dev: especially when youve JUST released a project and only have none or a few ratings one unlegimate 1 star review can really tank the visibility and if you happen to see the same person doing the same rating on all your projects something is obviously off
ive reported clear cases like this couple times in the past and probs since ive had proof of this same person doing it for other people at the same time ive gotten them removed
its not something you should obsess about, like its fine if someone hates your game and gives it a bad review but when that same happens for every single lgbt project of yours and your friends lgbt projects from the same account at the exact same time clearly this isnt done in good faith and you can appeal that!
for the gamers: rating games you like on itch io is really valuable. its why every youtuber tells you to like and subscribe and hit the bell icon, because it really does boost their video to more people and same applies with itch io.
i know not everyone even knows about the rating system so when youre playing gay games on itch io i think everyone should get in the habit of liberally rating the games they liked to support the devs whose work you enjoyed
100% i can confirm that devs can get a ton of 1-star reviews with no comments or comments like this
i think in Bossgame's case it happened because a lot of traffic was coming from popular porn games on itch (for a while one of the highest internal site referrals was Tentacle Locker) and those folks were not interested in queer seditious boss fights. Though I can't tell why that happened in the first place... maybe because I tagged Bossgame as "lesbian"?
Anyway, operating within the omnipresent algorithm is exhausting, but leaving a rating does really help. It's pretty depressing seeing 10 lovely, well-written reviews next to 10 people with no avatars leaving 1-star reviews... You don't have to write anything fancy (or anything at all), but if you check out a game and like it, please consider leaving a nice rating! (on itch, on steam, on youtube, whatever)
The ichio algorithm is heavily impacted by putting a video in the comment section and games see a boost on the popular page usually within a couple hours of someone posting it.
The above image is an example of it in effect.
I go into more details on it on my blog post here, which takes a look at 3 video games and 8 ttrpgs.
You can read the blog post HERE
This is partially why it seems that horror games are more heavily favored, when in fact more people just post lets plays of themselves on the games.
In my very small personal opinion, I think rating games is best for showing the people who follow you that you enjoyed something since it shows up on their feed.
