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Byron Atkinson-Jones. @BAFTA member, Principal engineer at PlayStation. All views are my own and do not represent my employer, in any way imaginable.

Orpington, Kent
xiotex-studios.com
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    Byron - super nerd‏Verified account @xiotex 20 Sep 2017

    Discovery on Steam has been terrible since they recent algorithm changes, you can see the decline here.pic.twitter.com/uEITQ9zDQk

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      2. Byron - super nerd‏Verified account @xiotex 20 Sep 2017

        Most of the time the graph used to look like the data to the right. The spike is a sale, since then it’s declined to zero.

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      3. Byron - super nerd‏Verified account @xiotex 20 Sep 2017

        The impact is sales amounts go from an average of 77 per month for this particular game to 1 per month.

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      4. Byron - super nerd‏Verified account @xiotex 20 Sep 2017

        At 77 per month business was barely sustainable, at 1 a moth it’s a count-down to closure.

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      5. Byron - super nerd‏Verified account @xiotex 20 Sep 2017

        If things don’t pick up soon this will be the last year of Xiotex Studios.

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      6. Byron - super nerd‏Verified account @xiotex 20 Sep 2017

        This the lifetime graph for that game.pic.twitter.com/naZSRecXGn

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      7. Byron - super nerd‏Verified account @xiotex 20 Sep 2017

        This is the life time graph for a game I released last year - same decline after the last spike.pic.twitter.com/pEwu5cQYSj

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      8. Byron - super nerd‏Verified account @xiotex 20 Sep 2017

        Both spikes coincide with the algorithmic way games are presented to people on Steam.

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      9. Byron - super nerd‏Verified account @xiotex 20 Sep 2017

        I agreed to give the business a few years chance and in the early days it was doing really well but now funds are dwindling.

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      10. Byron - super nerd‏Verified account @xiotex 20 Sep 2017

        To make a successful game these days takes a magic sauce that I don’t know the ingredients of.

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      11. Byron - super nerd‏Verified account @xiotex 20 Sep 2017

        This is not something to be sad about, it’s a commercial reality. We can’t all survive. it’s the nature of things.

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      12. Byron - super nerd‏Verified account @xiotex 20 Sep 2017

        I’ve only been able to keep going this way because Susan has been funding the business but that can’t last.

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      13. Byron - super nerd‏Verified account @xiotex 20 Sep 2017

        I’ve had amazing support from Susan and now it’s time for me to re-pay that support.

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      14. Byron - super nerd‏Verified account @xiotex 20 Sep 2017

        The irony is that I’m having a ‘random’ inspection by HMRC tomorrow and the department name? “Wealthy and Midsize Business Compliance”

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      15. Byron - super nerd‏Verified account @xiotex 20 Sep 2017

        I did query this and apparently it’s a new trainee being sent to learn how to do it.

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      16. Byron - super nerd‏Verified account @xiotex 20 Sep 2017

        Gotta laugh.

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