Marijan
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Developer of PlayTracker. I do stuff related to games sometimes. My secret is that I am always angry, mostly about regional restrictions.
Every day some infuriating software insolently thinks it knows better and overrides my explicit input, fucking something up. Every day for the last 20 years. If you are writing code today, whatever level of confidence you think is sufficient to override a user's choice, 1000x that shit or I will ki
Wrote a bit about the Xbox layoffs, and why the numbers show what a shortsighted decision it will likely prove to be. playtracker.net/insight/post... TLDR: Destroying institutional knowledge because a game with 7.5M players did not generate enough "engagement" will hurt profit, not improve it.
Thousands were fired to justify faulty Game Pass math
When 7.5M players are not enough, short-sighted decisions at Xbox are killing their true golden goose
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Summer Showdown is on in the @secondwindgroup.com guild on PlayTracker! Unlock achievements to claim a free game and compete on the leaderboard for a $250 gift card! Join now: playtracker.net/guild/second...
If the next Xbox is a PC and supports physical games, could be cool having physical PC games to buy again. Good way to differentiate and justify an alternative store/launcher, too. Could also sell an Xbox branded external drive since physical movies and shows probably appeal to the same crowd.
Marathon's first foray into PvE is a singleplayer/coop way into the hardest and most inaccessible map with a separate progression system that doesn't touch PvP economy. Great for existing players! Will not attract new people. In the future, should apply to ALL maps, and work for story progress too.
Marathon Development Team@marathonteam.bungie.net · 2mo agoMarathon Key Dates www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Ar...
Didn't think they'd make this a consistent policy rather than try to have it both ways by keeping it vague and shipping when a game needs it. Especially given our (recently corroborated) analysis about SAROS selling slowly and Returnal's PC version catching up to PS: playtracker.net/insight/post...
Launch week stats: SAROS (PS5)
Diving into the PS5 launch of SAROS with stats, user personalities, and audience overlap with other games
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Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 3mo agoSCOOP: PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff in a town hall Monday morning that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive, confirming Bloomberg's reporting from earlier this year. Original story from March: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This time tomorrow, tune into the Second Wind Games Showcase! 📰 Follow along with a live updating page on PlayTracker 🎮 Browse all the games with Steam links 📈 Get points for each game you wishlist, demo, or play 🎁 Win a free game if you earn 50 points playtracker.net/showcase/
Second Wind Games Showcase | PlayTracker
Follow along live to easily wishlist games as they are shown and earn rewards doing it.
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So when Stop Killing Games becomes law, will shit like this count as "operable"?
I wrote 24 certifiable gamer "hivemind decrees" for this and I hope that you will enjoy them.
PlayTracker@playtracker.bsky.social · 5mo agoToo many gamers spend their days staring at charts instead of playing actual games. We're here to save them. Introducing Steam* Chart Simulator - predict the success of fictional games, craft your hot take, and watch charts go up and down. Play now: playtracker.net/chart-simula...
2021 sony: ok so we could probably make a lot of money if we buy the remake studio to make remakes and the pc port studio to make pc ports 2026 sony: gentlemen our plan of making a lot of money selling remakes and pc ports worked - now - the plan to make even more money is to stop all that
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 6mo agoNEW: Sony no longer plans to release PlayStation games on PC, sources tell Bloomberg News, a major shift in strategy that sees the console maker returning to exclusivity after six years of flirting with multiplatform. Ghost of Yotei and Saros are not coming to PC. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Another step on our quest to rid the world of all the annoying little aspects of achievement systems! A step that has taken painfully longer than expected: parts of this feature appeared on live PlayTracker in March 2023 on the Jackbox games in my library. Next up: filtering non-core achievements!
PlayTracker@playtracker.bsky.social · 7mo agoIntroducing Parties: share achievement credit with people you played with! Perfect for local coop, and remote play games. Create a Party, invite friends, then add the games you played together: they will show up in everyone's libraries and contribute to their level and stats.
Cannot overstate how great @secondwindgroup.com has been for us at PlayTracker. We sponsored over a dozen creators/channels in Nov/Dec, and it was our best performing campaign by a decent margin. Lots of old users interacted with the guild too, since the profile decorations they made are top tier!
Nick Calandra@nickjcal.bsky.social · 7mo agoAs February is fast approaching, we're signing new sponsors for @secondwindgroup.com. Affordable pricing with lots of value to help get your games, services or products lots of visibility. Drop me a DM or email if you want to work together! Here's our latest work for @playtracker.bsky.social.
Excited about our new "Mastered" game completion state, which is attainable by completing all the content available in a single play-through of a game, without having to look up a guide before playing. Some devs follow this rule, but it's good to have it as a consistently tracked aspirational goal.
PlayTracker@playtracker.bsky.social · 10mo agoOne such feature is the "Mastered" game completion state that requires only core achievements, rather than the 100% of achievements required by "Perfected". This allows users to be rewarded for completing all content in a game, without having to worry about missables or DLC.
My weekend was devoured by Seance of Blake Manor. Initially had some friction with the time mechanic and had to fight the urge to inspect every stack of towels, but after a while it really clicked. "One more turn" vibe: can't stop playing because that person just came back and I have questions...
When designing features we try to tap into social dynamics that we think are fun and memorable. One such example is pestering your friends to play the games you recommended them. Thus: the rewards modifier for Backlog Dungeon is doubled if one of your friends has the game in their Hall of Fame!
PlayTracker@playtracker.bsky.social · 11mo agoUsers have unlocked over 100K achievements in Backlog Dungeon - earning cosmetic profile rewards by clearing their vast trove of unfinished games! To celebrate, we've shipped a highly requested feature: add any game to the Dungeon directly at the default 1x reward modifier.
As the dust settles, an interesting Silksong playtime stat appears: users who played Hollow Knight, but did not finish it, played Silksong less than even complete newcomers. 16% even went back to Hollow Knight!
We continue our trend of dark and moody season themes in fall: Season of Anomaly is live now on PlayTracker Quest! New features this season: - choose your free game - new global community created challenges Complete challenges and get a free game: playtracker.net/quest/
Who are the people playing Hollow Knight in the 24 hours since the #Silksong trailer dropped? 2% have never played the game before (peer pressure works) 39% previously beat the main story (double the usual completion rate) 4% got every achievements (but are still playing)
Our first guild is in partnership with Games Croatia - a project uniting and promoting game developers from Croatia: playtracker.net/guild/croatia/. Play any game made in Croatia and earn achievements to rank up. Reach the maximum rank to get an exclusive badge for your profile!
Games Croatia Guild | PlayTracker
Official PlayTracker Guild for Games Croatia - play Croatian games to rank up and unlock rewards!
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Introducing Guilds: permanent cross-platform communities with themed progression, rewards, news, and more. 🎮 Rank up 🏆 Show off 📰 Stay tuned New official guilds will launch regularly in collaboration with partners. User-made community guilds available later this year.
Thrilled to finally shoot for the stars with PlayTracker thanks to a huge partnership with Newzoo! We get to double the team and make our bag of ideas a reality. playtracker.net/announcement... Great social features for gamers and affordable analytics for indie devs continue - better than ever.
Partnership between PlayTracker and Newzoo
PlayTracker and Newzoo will collaborate on a multiyear development roadmap and to integrate PlayTracker Insight cross-platform analytics with Newzoo's industry standard products and services.
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When a PlayTracker sales estimate was embarrassingly wrong, an odd geographical distribution was usually behind the scenes. It's an inherent shortcoming of our user sampling method. Many just play and do not engage with social stuff. We're trying to fix this with today's update.
Proud to have helped @tgdevs.com in any way I was able, and super excited to finally play the full game!
ReSetna ▶ available NOW on Steam || indie 🎮@tgdevs.com · 2y agoRESETNA IS 🔴 RELEASED! Thank you for all the support - you've been amazing! We hope you enjoy playing it. 7 versatile zones with 7 bosses, up to 40 diverse enemies, and up to 20 hours of gameplay. Get #ReSetna ▶️ s.team/a/2936080 #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev #Metroidvania
People will study what went right with Marvel Rivals for years. We haven't seen something like this since Helldivers 2. It held incredibly well over its launch month - a time when games typically decline. Now it beats its all-time concurrent player record and hits 500K. Can it keep up the momentum?
The Balatro sweep was real among PlayTracker users: Balatro reached more new players across all platforms in December than any month before. Previous players returned as well, with the game breaking its concurrent player record on Steam and achieving peak achievement activity on console.
PlayTracker's 2024 Replay is out and I'm quite proud of it. I dare say it is the best gaming year in review - it is not only cross-platform, but packed with really cool data. See what it's like and find out why I haven't gotten any work done by checking mine out: playtracker.net/replay/2024/...
LittleDinamit's 2024 Gaming Replay | PlayTracker
Take a look back at LittleDinamit's activity, across all gaming platforms.
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