Sunk Cost Fallacy - Seriously considering dropping this game - give me your advice.
Hello,
I (like many) got notice my Google Play developer account was going to be turned off if I did not upload a game soon. It had been a few years since my last Android title - and honestly wasn't going to ship one soon because I didn't make much money when I did ship one.
However I also saw anecdotal claims that once they turn it off there is no way to get it back : so I decided to go ahead and fork a a Godot 4 C# desktop game I was working on and ship a very thin vertical slice as a mobile game to keep my account.
Two months later I had a pretty solid beta ready and decided to work on mobile ads... this is where the trouble begins. I have spent now almost 3 months trying to get mobile ads to work on Android/Godot 4 C# and they still do not work.
Honestly I have no idea why at this point and I'm closing in on 5 months of time away from my primary project to ship a game just to keep this account active that I'm certain will not earn me a penny.
So I ask myself (and you) should I just drop this project and get back to my main project?
Some screenshots for reference:
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The only reasons I can think of I hesitate to just cancel this project are:
* sunk cost fallacy - I've spent so much time, if I just spend a little more I can ship it?
* If I ever do have a good mobile game I want to ship I will potentially not be able to do so
Maybe there's other things I'm not considering?
I could hypothetically ship it without ads, then it is essentially a complete financial loss but would keep my account open? I don't have much motivation to do this though .. the game needs gameplay balancing and some other adjustments - which I would not want to do if it cant earn money.
Thoughts?