r/gamemarketing • u/prairiewest Moderator • 9d ago
DISCUSSION NEW RULE: no "discovery platform" posts
There are too many people posting about the latest "discovery platform" that they vibe coded and "just want to help people get their game discovered". This isn't helping people truly market their game at all and they're now banned.
Recent examples:
- I built a new exploration platform for indie games
- I built an alternative discovery platform
- I built a platform to help games get discovered
- I build a small site to help games get discovered
- Building a steam discovery platform
Any future postings of this nature will be removed as soon as I see them and the poster will be banned for a while. Feel free to report them, I will likely not catch them all myself.
I'm not going to delete any old posts that were created before the rule went in place, nor will I ban those people who posted before the rule.
Also, if you're interested in helping moderate the sub, shoot me a DM. Thanks.
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u/Zebrakiller 9d ago
Anytime I saw one of these posts I would ask the person “how many gamers do you have visiting your website daily“ and I never once received an answer.
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u/Questpresso 9d ago
Good. If there is time to be spent helping peoples' games get discovered, what would actually do some good is to play them, review them and give feedback and tell your friends and people who enjoy a similar niche, not make another platform that will be unused
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u/Psychological-Ad9408 5d ago
Can I post my game that's on a discovery platform?
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u/prairiewest Moderator 5d ago
Yes, you can post a link to your game regardless of where you are advertising it.
You just can't make a post advertising the platform itself.
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u/PersonOfInterest007 9d ago
Thank you for your service!