Ilithios Liebknecht

Pamela - I also agree with this that setting the price too low will make the item seem cheap. Often people will up the lower end of the range on price in search just to not have to sort through all the junk. I put a lot of thought into the pricing of the game, compared it to other games, etc and I think 190L is the perfect price for it. When I said they should be 1300L I was talking about in RL a game of similar quality would be at least the equivalent to that in RL money, but in SL people undervalue everything and I doubt I would sell even one at that price. As far as paying bloggers, it is a little underhanded to pay them yes. While it's not explicitly stated, the assumption in that kind of a situation would be that they are getting paid for a positive review. Now, I am perfectly willing to give them the game for free to review of course, but handing over payola doesn't seem right. If they are really a blogger interested in blogging about the best Second Life has to offer, then they would be interested in writing about my games for free. If they want payment, they are not a blogger but rather just an advertising company in disguise. Good call on the signature. I have not used the forums much as you can tell. I have rectified that situation. I do have an MP store. I would be interested in knowing how you searched for it that yielded no results. Perhaps others may try the same method. In any case, the store is here: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/179371 Polenth - While of course I talk about the games in my profile and have the location first in my picks, I am no marketing expert hence this post. I suppose I could pay someone to write better descriptions for me in my picks, but at the end of the day I am only one person and I don't have time any more to do anything fun. I am far too busy creating new games and supporting and promoting the ones I have out.

Polenth - Yes, that may be a good idea. I need to get people to add the place their picks and profile. I know several fans of the games do have it in their picks, but should figure out how to get more. I have found an advertising agency that you pay and they find people who put your place in their picks in exchange for pay, but I don't know how well that works. Maybe I should give it a shot, and/or think of other ways to get the games in people's picks and profile. I will definitely look into that. Spica - Yes, I agree with that completely, and the games are not expensive at all. Games this involved of this quality should be at least 1300L, probably more, but they are only 190L in world. This doesn't even cover tier costs of course, but making money isn't really the aim.

Oh sorry, forgot to mention I've tried those too. I made up a press release and sent it to bloggers. The first thing I found was that 99% of SL bloggers just write about clothes. I sent it out to several of the other blogs that seemed to be still active, but haven't heard back from them. I have not offered to pay them. That seems a little underhanded. I have been regularly holding events at the sim for the last month. Barely anyone shows up. I have decided to stop having events as of this week because it's not worth it.

Howdy folks, I am wondering what you find is the best way to get people to realize your product exists? I make full featured adventure games, and it doesn't help that most people in SL don't even think of adventure games as something there is to do in SL, so even the people who would be interested in them don't search for them. In fact the only others doing anything even similar to me that I am aware of is Madpea. I have tried in world billboards. This is a total waste. No one ever clicks them I have tried classified ads. This is pointless because of how it determines which ads are displayed. Anyone searching for games sees nothing but casinos in the classifieds because casinos bid 40,000L for their ads. Of course casinos are not even slightly relevant to people who want adventure games and yet I can outright search for "adventure game" in search and see nothing but casinos in the classified ads. Might as well be ads for viagra with as much relevence those have to the search. But that's how classifieds work, so those are useless. I have a fishing game on my sim. That brings people in to come take my L and do nothing else, they don't even talk to each other, doubt they're even looking at their screens most of the time, and they're certainly not interested in anything except clicking their own rods repeatedly. I have versions on MP and made it featured on the front. That doesn't do anything. I have posts in the games category of the forums here. No replies, and few views. I'm running out of ideas here. P.S. I keep seeing the exact same places every day all the time in the events listing of the search. That seems like a way to get seen, however the event posting rules say that "events" that are nothing more than advertisements won't be tolerated and yet they clearly are tolerated. Toy Brothel has an "event" going 24 hours a day every day and this event is really nothing more than them being open. I don't know how to get in that featured section anyway. I don't see a featured option when posting an event.

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