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why i HATE google...

Posted by Rarykos - February 4th, 2020


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Let me get this straight. So your algorithm thinks my game violates "a policy" but you won't tell me which one.

-Sir, please step out of the vehicle. Do you know why I stopped you?

-No...?

-Me neither, here's 200 pages of bullshit legalese, find something.


I LOVE their solution to this problem. Actually got a mail saying:

"Fix whatever violates any policy and upload the game under new name, obviously your earnings are gone."

Dude, maybe take some responsibility, you're taking 30% of my earnings, can I at least talk to a fucking person?


Fuck man, just when we were done with the game, preparing a final free update that's about to go live in 2 weeks, just commissioned an artist for an awesome banner and life... just fucking... gets me again. :(


Here I was writing a postmortem about Mars. About to tell you that this year I'd be able to sustain myself from the game. Interesting projects could be made on time. I have Winter Falling to finish and if I can work on it fulltime I should be done THIS YEAR.

Don't know what I'll do now. Probably work on Winter Falling until my savings run out and starve to death.

Just felt an immense urge to tell you this story, in case you needed a reason to hate giant corporations.


In other news: the Chinese got me, I'm sick and hiding from my discord community until I feel better. :<


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Oh shit?You don't mean the WuFlu?Also,like you need a reason to hate Corporations,HA!

Right?! Ah, WuFlu is bad, probably got it from aliexpress packages haha

Maybe Steam or Apple Arcade could be a way...? Or whatever other portals there are out there. GOG accept good India games too.

Can't have too many reasons to shit on the giants though, I need some more incentive to finally make the switch from Google to DuckDuckGo, even though the G just seems to have such a perfect search algorithm... real bummer man. Hope you find a way to take that game places elsewhere!

Oh that's cool, haven't thought of GOG, I'll have to write them. Well, Mars is on Steam and it's doing okay, luckily! Yeah I feel you, I switched to DuckDuckGo but it's okay, just gotta get used to a different algorithm. Thank you for the kind words!

*Indie games. My bad. All geographies

I always hear the iOS version always brings in the majority of the money - I noticed Mars was on the Apple store too, did you find that to be true?

That's not exactly true, but for certain periods iOS does bring more revenue. I can say that for paid games iOS is definitely better. Google is more about continued growth and algorithms so they prefer free games. iOS is more about having a game that their curators like and promote. Thanks for asking!

Same reason I hate Google! Wow!

Google fears your superior games, as should a weak, criminal company based on stolen code rightly should. Relish this power and establish your own distribution lines. Get the word out and get back in the game.

Yeah! I feel the power, thank you!

Google sux, that's all

True that. :(

@OmarShehata Just realised I probably didn't answer your question. Mars earned more on iOS overall, but it was in a short burst near launch, but the long tail is worse than on Google!

Yeah they have a submission/application thing here: https://www.gog.com/indie

Nice. :) If naught else they do have a somewhat more entertaining name too (the Duck), and apparently they won the first actions for getting included in Google Chrome too... wonder who's really behind their financing though, considering they seem more focused on integrity than revenue. Anyway good luck! And word @Yomuchan

*auctions aargh this lack of edit feature...

feel bad about this, hope you can success your passion.