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[Blog] Valve just took away a valuable visibility tool (files.mastodon.social)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/gamedev

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[Blog] Valve just took away a valuable visibility tool

Blog post by Chris Zukowski (How to Market A Game)

https://howtomarketagame.com/2024/08/21/valve-just-took-away-a-valuable-visibility-tool/

#GameDev #GameMarketing #Steam

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean, Valve has a vested interest in keeping game devs active on the Steam forums.

But also, can we stop fucking replacing support forums with Discord servers? Discord isn’t searchable by engines, so when I have an issue and search for “[game name] [issue]” I can’t easily find support topics from others who have had the same issue. All I get is a generic “jOiN ouR dIsCorD SerVer FoR sUppOrT” page instead.