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Ignored by press?

Alexander Sarton · 2015-02-09T15:13:05

Hello, We have been working on a 3D platform/puzzel game in Unreal Engine 3 for 2 years now with 15 people who graduated from a game development college last year, and finally we released the first part for $20,-, with the second part coming up in April for free. (Around 6 hours singleplayer gameplay) Now we have been doing a lot of press releases before where some of them where picked up by press reasonably ok. Not much but at least a couple of big game news websites and lots of smaller. Also we have a facebook page with almost 7000 likes. But we just released our game on steam and send a press release last monday to 300 websites all over the world, but apart from a couple of polish and russian websites with almost no views, I think it looks like we are being ignored. Offcourse this is not good for the sales. And I am wondering what went wrong or how we can do this more effectively. I understand its hard to help if I do not mention which game it is and what our press release looks like, so if you need please send a private message. Most forums see posting a name of a game as advertising, i want to avoid that here just to be sure :) Edit: I am not part of the marketing team so I also dont know exactly how the press releases are send, I think they used mail chimp. But i am just a concerned programmer who doesnt see any websites talking about our game. Thanks in advance Alexander

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Started by alexander1989 February 06, 2015 10:10 AM

11 comments, last by Orymus3 9 years, 4 months ago

Brain

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February 07, 2015 11:34 AM

Have you contacted metal Hammer magazine at all yet? I bet they would be interested :)

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February 09, 2015 09:51 AM

@braindigitalis Thanks, I know they wrote about us in the past, but I am not sure if we contacted them with this press release, but if we didn't it is a good idea to do that :)

Orymus3

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February 09, 2015 03:13 PM

@braindigitalis Thanks, I know they wrote about us in the past, but I am not sure if we contacted them with this press release, but if we didn't it is a good idea to do that

Then, it looks like you're not being ignored by the press. You'Re just experiencing the fact you're not the headline news. :)

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