Unable to "publish" game.

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ID:294138

Mar 22 2010, 5:55 pm

Visser Three

BYOND Build Number: (4.0 Public Version 464.1066)
Operating System: Windows Vista
Video/Graphics Card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator
Game Hub/Link: VisserThree.PokemonAllstar
Internet Connection Type: Cable (Comcast)
Firewalls/Routers: NETGEAR Router with Port Forwarding successful.

Problem Description: When hosting my game, it will not show up on searches. You have to hit advanced, then (Number) Total. How is my game not published? It is live and shows it is hosting.

Steps to Reproduce Problem:
Search for Pokemon Allstar. Doesn't appear. Without taking steps above to find it.

Mar 22 2010, 9:55 pm

Schnitzelnagler

The forum search (on the right forum) returns id:700410 and it's predecessor was even announced in the news:
"Another change with hub entries is this new concept of "published" and "unpublished". You may have noticed these, along with this new notion of "available" games, when searching for games. We've been around the block with those terms a few times before, so here's a quick explanation of what they mean:

Available games are either downloadable, or currently live. In a few places this concept is stretched a little to include any games that were live within the last day or so.
Published games are generally BYOND favourites (a favourite in one of our banner guilds), or are in at least one Member's top 10 favourite games.
Unpublished games are everything else.

(...)
Bear in mind it's still possible to find unpublished games, they just don't show up as easily.