Goonhub
09-19-2021, 11:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-19-2021, 11:25 PM by UrsulaMejor. Edited 2 times in total.)
The server is for the hundreds of players who still play it. We have more players every year, we must be doing something right.
One thing of note: we made ass day an optional thing at one point where it was enabled on one classic server but not the other one.
The ass day server barely broke 10 players. We were killing server pop fire the enjoyment of a very small group.
"It's only 12 days a year" isn't a good argument. A single bad day can kill server growth momentum for several days, sometimes even weeks, afterward.
There are two main reasons that I believe were behind this based on experience
First, we have an extremely high churn rate on new players and we constantly need fresh blood in every day to keep at playable population. Forming an early daily habit is important to turning a fresh player into the kind of person who will come back after long breaks. Purposely driving them away once a month is bad for retention, which is bad for everyone because nobody likes to play on empty servers.
Second, having a higher pop puts us higher on the hub, which is where we get a large number of players. A significant portion of our players actually join us from there every round instead of using other methods, and giving them more to scroll through makes then more likely to server hop.
All in all, this is a lot is words to day "intentionally making the game worse for the majority of your players is bad for long term health of your game"
One thing of note: we made ass day an optional thing at one point where it was enabled on one classic server but not the other one.
The ass day server barely broke 10 players. We were killing server pop fire the enjoyment of a very small group.
"It's only 12 days a year" isn't a good argument. A single bad day can kill server growth momentum for several days, sometimes even weeks, afterward.
There are two main reasons that I believe were behind this based on experience
First, we have an extremely high churn rate on new players and we constantly need fresh blood in every day to keep at playable population. Forming an early daily habit is important to turning a fresh player into the kind of person who will come back after long breaks. Purposely driving them away once a month is bad for retention, which is bad for everyone because nobody likes to play on empty servers.
Second, having a higher pop puts us higher on the hub, which is where we get a large number of players. A significant portion of our players actually join us from there every round instead of using other methods, and giving them more to scroll through makes then more likely to server hop.
All in all, this is a lot is words to day "intentionally making the game worse for the majority of your players is bad for long term health of your game"