I experienced significant drop in sales last month. My sales are down by 80%. It was not steady decline over time, which is something i would expect as assets get “used up” on the market over time. This was sudden. At the same month, new asset store look arrived. Maybe my visibility was lost cause of it. Or maybe that is just coincidence. I need to note that my assets are heavily niche, so they cant be used as general reference. But, this is why i’m asking the rest of you, is everything normal, or do you also have drop in sales?
Sales dropped to almost 0% for me. I do know that my products are a niche, but I did have a few sales every month anyway. This has stopped now.
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Pretty normal month for me.
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Dropped very low for me in the last month. I was suspecting the same thing.
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Note that the new asset store look is not yet in use for most of the users (AFAIK)
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Same thing. August’s sales are terrible in comparison with all previous months.
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Nope. My sales have been extremely consistent for nearly a year now!
Nov 2016: $0
Dec 2016: $0
Jan 2017: $0
Feb 2017: $0
Mar 2017: $0
Apr 2017: $0
May 2017: $0
Jun 2017: $0
Jul 2017: $0
Aug 2017: $0
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Same here, I thought it was weird because I had recently uploaded new stuff to the Asset Store, and sales dropped.
To be fair, you only uploaded 1 asset … and that was over 2 years ago :-\
Looks pretty cool though, I love customizable assets…
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I don’t think I have access to the new Asset Store yet,
but the prices have been increased by 25% within the last month.
Not sure how much impact it has in total, but it has definitely made me think twice before checkout.
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Yeah, this was one of my rare joke posts that just didn’t land. 
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My sales saw about a 25% increase over the average from the last 5 months (and a nearly 50% increase from June which was a slow month). So far this month my sales are on pace to be about even with what they were last month as well.
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Abruptly went to zero sales for July which has never happened. Even published a new asset, no uptake.
I think the way the store promotes assets now is quite different than it used to be and has changed the way people shop in it. There is a lot of focus on featuring packages, themes and groups of new high-potential assets and I think it’s pushed a lot of the old way of just browsing around on the store into the background.
There’s no data available to confirm it, but it seems like the ‘featured’ space is much bigger. A lot of sales go to that specific space which leads to depopularization of non-featured assets and dropping a lot of assets off on sales.
That’s totally just speculation though. Overall to me it just feels like if you don’t get into some featured category or special then sales are improperly lower than they used to be.
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Thank you all for sharing your experiences.
This is exactly what i fear as well. When i go to browse the store, and i imagine myself as buyer, it is tremendously hard to see anything except featured stuff. It is to early to jump to conclusions tough, and i will certainly give it a go with new assets in the future to test this out. Maybe now we will hardly make any sales, until (and if) we get featured. And when we get featured it will skyrocket beyond any imagination?.. Somehow i would prefer steady income to that. But, that is jut my opinion.
To test this theory i will ask those of you who wrote your sales are the same or higher, are you being featured in some way?
FWIW, I keep an eye on my Google Analytics data. The overwhelming majority of traffic to my asset comes from the forums (either from my asset thread or multiple other threads - meaning linked from my signature). I’ve also noticed a direct correlation between my forum activity and sales. In months where I’ve not been able to be as active, my sales have been lower. Keep that in mind for your marketing strategies. The forums are a very powerful marketing tool, even passively because I don’t actively go around promoting on the forums. I just participate in General Discussion and help out with unrelated (or sometimes related) things in other forums like Editor / General and Scripting.
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That is truly interesting info. Thank you.
Though I don’t keep as close of a tap on my GA I have noticed the same - there does seem to be at least some correlation between forum presence and sales. After all, it does increase visibility and the people here are basically the target audience.
That being said, I was really active in July.
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Well… Lol.
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When I first saw the new look I fully anticipated another torches and pitchforks mob, like we had with the Lithium incident. I was surprised that no one seemed to care really when I showed a screenshot on slack. At the time not many had seen it yet. I found the usability for finding things to be far better in the old version of the store. Some of the search features where also nonsensical at that time (star rating filter only filtered down to equal number of stars, not equal or greater) . I haven’t used it since to be honest. But that correlates with me having no time to work on my game at the moment. Would love to hear official statements on global sale volume going up or down. Wouldn’t surprise me if it has gone down significantly.
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@Peter77 updating the asset store link in your signature might help 
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The signature is actually pointing to my publisher page in the new Asset Store. Isn’t it working for you? 