Google has announced a few changes to the Play Store, one of which means that listings for games will be promoted not based solely on the number of downloads. The company is tweaking its algorithms to take into account how much time is spent playing games -…
Google has announced a few changes to the Play Store, one of which means that listings for games will be promoted not based solely on the number of downloads. The company is tweaking its algorithms to take into account how much time is spent playing games — so a game which achieves large numbers of downloads but isn’t played much will drop down the rankings.
Another change that has been a long time coming is the option for developers to list sale prices for their apps and games.
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USA — software Google Play now ranks games according to engagement, not just downloads, and...