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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/

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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It won't be too long until users get used to the standardized locations for socials. And it cleans up a lot of spam

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@Boomkop3 Yeah I guess ๐Ÿค” I wish they could provide an optional image-button UI for the socials widgets so theyre easier to see at least..

Chris also wrote that his next blog post will be about alternative strategies to cross-promote games. I'm curious what he'll come up with

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I suppose valve could just put a "link your own games" section in there. But abuse of just that was part of the problem :/

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