So it has been a bit since we launched both Greenlight and KickStarter . It has been interesting so far. I am encouraged by Greenlight and blown away by the severe lack of KickStarter wanting to make money.
Let’s start with Greenlight. We launched that thing and we blew up with traffic. We got votes by the bucket load. We unfortunately had some improvements to make and had a lower than what we had hoped yes percentage of 37%. It was still fantastic and that percentage is nothign to be sad about. Since then we fixed the wording on our page to better explain the game. So for the past 8 days our yes percentage is 62% on average which is more like where we thought we should be.
So Greenlight is rocking forward and people are really liking Violent Sol Worlds and would like to see it on Steam in the future. We have a lot more votes to go though, your vote would help greatly in promoting our title. Please head over to our Greenlight page and login to vote it up.
Now for KickStarter. We expected more from KickStarter than what they offered. I know you should not rely on somebody else to drive traffic to you, but the difference between Steam on launch day and KickStarter was like the difference between a Saturn V rocket and a rubber band. Both fly, but one gets somewhere substantial and quickly.
I’m just saying that They can make a ton more money if they actively improved their own traffic and pointed more people in an active way to new projects at least for a day or two to see if they catch or not. The truth that we did not know is that your first day will be the exact same as your sixth day. They did not seem to do what Steam did and drive people to you for a few days. They simply provide you a website and that is it.
Really we have learned a ton about game development in the past few months and have really gotten a ton more fired up about our Title Violent Sol Worlds. Mathematically all our current adventures are proving very good for us. All signs still point to people loving the idea of Violent Sol Worlds and the development is going forward full steam. With all that being said let’s go vote on the Greenlight and promote the KickStarter, let’s get this thing rolling.
Thank you all for your support.
