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Itch.io posts: The number of game pages being created per-day has doubled in the past 2 months
Tommy's Homemade Games reaponds: Do you know why?
Itch.io posts: take a guess ๐ญ ๐ค
Itch.io posts: The number of downloads and purchases has not doubled ๐ฅฒ
This sucks, but also itch is rampant with bot traffic. You basically have to put up a "pay what you want" paywall to have any sort of realistic idea of your download activity. I made that mistake with my first media player release and was blown away by the thousands of obviously fake downloads I got within the first few hours.
Almost fell for the malware comments first time I used itch. Good that it exists I guess but in many respects it's pretty shit.