Player Retention
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
Latent Space
2 statements about Player Retention, every show
Player retention in scaled video games heavily depends on automated bot quality
“So if you're a game developer, how well you're actually retaining players, it's like if you have a game that's already at scale, it's like decently dependent on how good your bots are.”
Overly difficult levels cause permanent player churn in mobile games
“Yeah, so then you'll get people churning out and just sort of, like, abandoning the game forever.
So we look at, like, really granular sort of win rates per level, and sort of see how, because you also want, you do want that sort of, like, nice difficulty cur…”