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Q: Are in-game achievements useful for tracking how players interact with a game?
I recently started using my desktop to play the game via Steam, which automatically tracks and posts in-game achievements. Steam also has the achievement notice flashing if less than 10% of players earned that achievement.
A few things stood out. Namely, how few players were making it to the end of the main quest or even making major mile stones. Granted, I know the achievements tracking isn't prefect as many players aren't registered to report their progress. For example, when I played with my mobile device, I was never connected to the internet and so no achievements recorded.
But even taken into consideration the imperfect nature of tracking in-game achievements, there seems to be a serious issue with players making it to the end of the game.
Here are some highlights of Steam's achievement tracking:
8.8% completed 15 Town Hall Quests
8.1% made a bag of holding
5.6% completed the Abby quest
3.7% killed the Undermother
3.1% earned XP at nine shrines
2.1% beat the main quest at any difficulty (and any ending type?)
.8% killed the Unweakened Undermother
.5% beat the main quest on Hardcore or Ironman
It's just weird.
I recently started using my desktop to play the game via Steam, which automatically tracks and posts in-game achievements. Steam also has the achievement notice flashing if less than 10% of players earned that achievement.
A few things stood out. Namely, how few players were making it to the end of the main quest or even making major mile stones. Granted, I know the achievements tracking isn't prefect as many players aren't registered to report their progress. For example, when I played with my mobile device, I was never connected to the internet and so no achievements recorded.
But even taken into consideration the imperfect nature of tracking in-game achievements, there seems to be a serious issue with players making it to the end of the game.
Here are some highlights of Steam's achievement tracking:
8.8% completed 15 Town Hall Quests
8.1% made a bag of holding
5.6% completed the Abby quest
3.7% killed the Undermother
3.1% earned XP at nine shrines
2.1% beat the main quest at any difficulty (and any ending type?)
.8% killed the Unweakened Undermother
.5% beat the main quest on Hardcore or Ironman
It's just weird.