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  • This is not a contest to be holier than thou. It’s a numbers game.

    EFF stayed on Twitter because it has a larger audience and that means a larger portion of people will see their messaging. In fact, I would argue that the people that are still on Twitter are the ones most in need of seeing those messages. The people that care about what Debian is posting are almost certainly already on Mastadon.









  • Godort@lemmy.catoGaming@lemmy.worldAchievements
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    10 days ago

    I sometimes like to look at the fall-off rate of players by looking at the global achievements.

    With Silksong as an example, for the first few months there was a pretty big drop in “Defeat the Last Judge” achievements from everything else in Act 1, but surprisingly very little drop-off after that, which suggests that was a major wall for people, and many quit at that point.







  • It depends on the genre.

    If it’s a single player narrative-driven game, I want your story to be gripping. I want to be thinking about your game even when I’m not playing. Most recently, Expedition 33 is the gold example of this.

    With a multiplayer co-op game, I want to OPTIMIZE. I want to complete goals as though they are all engineering challenges, and I want collaboration on the same axis from the people I’m playing with. Games like Factorio and Satisfactory fill this niche for me, obviously. But I also really like co-op puzzle games like Portal 2 or We Were Here.

    With a multiplayer free-for-all game, I crave chaos. I want to interject enough random chance into a game that it’s basically gambling where you can tip the scales by being a skilled player. Party games and kart racers go here.


  • Why are you looking for the approval of people you haven’t even met yet?

    All those “where are you from, what do you do for a living, what do you do for fun” type questions are just to establish a common ground. You don’t have to take them so seriously.

    And like, you’re already going to share at least one common hobby of being into HAM at the very least. Ask questions, engage in conversation and dont be super introspective about whether your conversation was optimal.