Both game devs and players are obsessed with tracking concurrent user counts for popular games. But is it really the best metric for measuring success? We asked devs and publishers to weigh in.
Understand the business model of a game (genre, monetization methods, to what extent network effect is important to the game), one can decide whether a metric is important to this game and estimate the pattern of a metric across game lifecycle.
Understand the business model of a game (genre, monetization methods, to what extent network effect is important to the game), one can decide whether a metric is important to this game and estimate the pattern of a metric across game lifecycle.