Releasing the Early Access version of their game when they did was a fortuitous bit of timing, giving it a chance at spreading across the internet it wouldn't have if they'd done it today. Delisting videos for any kind of sexual content was a thing that had started almost before two weeks before the final launch of Genital Jousting and we don't know how much effect that had, if any." We don't know how much of that is because of increased strictness on YouTube's part. "It hasn't had the same virality as we experienced the first time. Genital Jousting is among the games banned from Twitch due to its sexual content, and while it's still allowed on YouTube, it's become less visible there thanks to changes in their algorithm. It doesn't YouTube the same way and it can't be on Twitch." "I think people are playing it but it's kind of hard to tell. "We're really proud of it and we've had a lot of really strong, positive response," Greenwood says. Adding a singleplayer story to their game may not have doubled its already impressive sales, but that's not the only measure of its worth. He's quick to add that they don't consider this a failure. "So that didn't happen," adds Greenwood, "and it actually went the way that anyone with some business sense and a head on their shoulders would have expected, which was it performed about as well as the initial launch." "We assumed it would have another round of virality," says Fraser, "and be like a whole 'nother new thing that people hadn't seen and it could be as big as like the first time they saw anything about Genital Jousting." But even with that major addition appearing out of nowhere Genital Jousting's final release didn't equal the success it enjoyed during Early Access. At the time I compared it to The Stanley Parable, only you're a penis. It was an unexpected addition, to say the least. They were working on something special for the final launch-a singleplayer mode for their silly-physics party game, an ambitious linear narrative that took its fumblecore mechanics and used them to tell a story about modern manhood. For about a year during Genital Jousting's time in Early Access, Free Lives went dark.
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