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Zlodo
Nov 25, 2006

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

i will admit to being one of those people who was very unhappy when games started tracking what you're doing in-game and sending that data back to developers. in hindsight, this might not have been the most important issue to be mad about at the time

also, having been on the other side of that and looking at reports generated from tracking data has allowed me to gain a newfound appreciation for how incredibly stupid the average video game player is. how the gently caress are you morons not able to clear the goddamn tutorial? no it's not game design's fault; 80% of people do just fine and spend less than 10 seconds there so i can only assume that the remaining 20% have the brainpower of a bag of doorknobs. well whatever they already paid for the game; i don't care as long as they don't ask for a refund

I don't bother looking at the analytics on our game but if I saw "20% of players dont finish the tutorial" I'd be more inclined to assume that they just weren't inspired to continue playing the game. It's in the tutorial that you may realize for instance that you're not actually up to embark upon a grind to collect materials again.

Also sometimes games can be sort of ok then you log off for whatever reason and you just don't feel like playing that game again because it just didn't hook you.

That's what happened to me with elden ring, I did the tutorial and got to the open world then I went to sleep and never had any desire to play it again.

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