{"id":69,"date":"2005-09-22T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2005-09-22T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T23:02:00","slug":"lies-dont-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/lies-dont-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Lies don&#039;t pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thing not many indie devs notice is that some (not going to make names) tend to &#8220;inflate&#8221; their figures a bit \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nLike saying they got 5.000 daily visitors, 50 sales\/day and so on. I remember getting a banner on a site, claiming they had 10.000 daily visitors, for one month. Well I had less than 12 referral from that site. Quite strange since the banner was right in middle of the HOMEPAGE&#8230;!<br \/>\nAbout the &#8220;false sales stats&#8221; that can be quickly checked. When I saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plimus.com\/jsp\/download_trial.jsp?contractId=1648237&amp;referrer=rei1974\">Atlantis <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plimus.com\/jsp\/redirect.jsp?contractId=1647760&amp;referrer=rei1974\">Professor Fizzwizzle <\/a>sales report, I was a bit dubious, so I affiliated them.<br \/>\nAfter one month I can be sure that they were telling the truth: I managed to sell several copies of both games even from my site which is clearly targeting a different audience&#8230;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thing not many indie devs notice is that some (not going to make names) tend to &#8220;inflate&#8221; their figures a bit \ud83d\ude42 Like saying they got 5.000 daily visitors, 50 sales\/day and so on. I remember getting a banner on a site, claiming they had 10.000 daily visitors, for one month. Well I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}