Hello fellow gamers, quick presentation:
I'm a long-time Japanese learner, completed 81 games in Japanese, and just recently decided to create a Steam Group & Curator page.

My issue is - where do I go from here?

I am not a streamer or youtuber (and too shy to be one), I'm not some big games review outlet like IGN or PCGamer, I'm not a blogger and basically have no internet presence wathsoever... I'm just a guy that play many games in Japanese and can tell fellow learners "you should check this one out next".

I've already visited all the major Japanese study sub-reddits and asked Moderators permission to share this initiative there, and it got some attention, but is not like I can keep spamming it now.

Then I thought "Ok, if I personally invite players from the Community HUBs of titles that expressely make their goal to teach you Japanese, then they're bound to be interested !"

And I was right - out of 11 people I've presented the Group to, 10 joined and 1 declined, because he suspected it might be a scam, and I can't blame him for being careful on Steam.

This was working great, over 90.9% success rate, and actually made a lot of friends!

So I continued, just to find out Steam has a limit of 30 Friend Request per week... :(

But I know there is people out there that is looking for this, just as I needed it very long time ago, so it's frustrating I'm not allowed to reach out to them... although I do understand the neccessity for it to be like this.

Of course I can take this very slow, 30 Friend Request a week - but there is nothing else I could do to grow it a little faster? ^_^'

If you have some ideas, I'm hoping you could share them with me ^_^