Is now a good time to release?
LeonardDeveloper
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Dear all,
I've had an app ready for a while now!, I'm not going to announce it on the forums yet! Until it's published (I'm doing a @quantumsheep on it! )
So I avoided the Christmas rush.... But then after Xmas there's the "indie after Xmas rush" when indies upload all there games! so I think I've avoided both of those, but anyway... Would you guys say now is a good time to release? Or will I hold off?
Thanks in advance,
LeonardDeveloper
I've had an app ready for a while now!, I'm not going to announce it on the forums yet! Until it's published (I'm doing a @quantumsheep on it! )
So I avoided the Christmas rush.... But then after Xmas there's the "indie after Xmas rush" when indies upload all there games! so I think I've avoided both of those, but anyway... Would you guys say now is a good time to release? Or will I hold off?
Thanks in advance,
LeonardDeveloper
Comments
Historically, prices from the big boys are slashed in sales at those times, and you're competing with professional games selling for the same price as your own games.
Other than that, it's a free for all
QS
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Yes the year of the dragon!, I'm looking forward to sales...*meditating* :P
@quantumsheep
As always a pleasure to hear from your sheepy wisdomness! :P Ya... That's why I was worrying about big devs... But recently I've seen some indie games coming back up to the top again....
@greenrhyno I've never seen you around the forums before! actually for most devs the Xmas holidays arent the best.... Especially for indie devs....
@QS - funny how a sheep magically appeared after I said baaa, hmm maybe this meditating thing works :P
I've been around a while.
I totally disagree with you about Christmas sales. Do you actually have apps with sales data to back that up. I've never heard that xmas was bad for anyone ever for app sales. Biggest day of the year for every dev, and the biggest week is Christmas to New Years. I doubt you will find any data that shows otherwise.
Also, why worry so much about the release. Right now updates are appearing in New Releases anyways so essentially you get a New Release every update. I say get your game in the store, update it sometimes if you want and move on to the next games.
I have three apps of my own.... And 8 client apps, and even more with some other people i do some work with!,
I'm not talking about Xmas sales.... I'm talking about if you release in Xmas.... They'll get buried by big dev's.....
Apart from that, thanks for your post!