Digital Distribution

[vukosi]

The new digital distribution is broken. My platform has over 4.4 million users and the fees are at 1% but I still cannot attract other companies to sell on my platform

[Ikke]

Same here (on experimental). My digital distribution platform has no features, nothing for sale (even with 1% fees, no one wants to sell through it) and yet it has 8M users and I get almost 1000 new support tickets a day.

I think this needs some more balancing.

[vukosi]

Yes, allowing other companies to launch competing platforms broke the system. Hopefully we can get a fix ASAP

[Skezza]

I'm getting the same thing, except one day all the companies that *were* using it just left, no idea why?

[vukosi]

Basically, after the update you do not have a distribution system since you have to develop it from scratch. It takes about a year with max features and team of 10. On the other hand your competitors have a functioning system from day one and take all the market share. From my perspective the only issue that needs to be fixed is other companies signing up after you develop the system.

[Sharo]

Would it help to buy the other 4 companies which have platforms? Then only my one would be on the market

[AsUI]

When you start, all companies are already in the game (which means that in the next few years there will be no new companies until the old ones go bankrupt). With the release of your digital distribution (software) - even if there is only 1% commission - no one is interested in you, because there is no software there yet. Subscriptions of other companies to the service will appear when users have an interest in the platform, and it will appear only if there is a release of products on this platform (releases of your products).
Another thing is that after the release of the software itself - they write to us that we seem to have active users of the platform - which destroys the whole logic. For some reason, when subscribing to a service, computer AI does not look at the number of the active user base of the platform, but at the share of the digital market, which, logically, should depend on the number of active users.

Because of this, the AI may cancel the subscription to the service. There 10M users? - It doesn't matter, their market share has dipped for 3 months, because new releases from the company that created the platform have not yet been released. At the same time, the number of active users of the platform has only one function - the growth function. It would be logical if the active users of the platform fell in the absence of releases, reducing the market share and, accordingly, increased, with the release of any product from any company on your platform. And this is how you get a mess when you have a huge base of active users of the platform, and the market share of your distribution may fall, because you do not release anything. But at the same time, users are patiently sitting on this platform.