Only 1 in 3 players finish games. Do you finish yours?

[Sin7]

I think it's bogus to use steam achievements for this, there are so many people who have hundreds of games in their collections from humble bundle, flash sales etc, and lots of people don't want to play indie title xx123, I think a far better option would've been to use xbox live/ PS trophy lists, I finish almost all my games, or well try to, but I'm finishing them in stages, not immediately after I've bought a game, it might take me a year to get to it and finish it, but i'll get there, so the stats are a bit bogus in my opinion...

[Tom]

I think it's bogus to use steam achievements for this, there are so many people who have hundreds of games in their collections from humble bundle, flash sales etc,

This is a very good point... Iv got quite a few games on humble that i would never have actually bought, but still tried out because i had them... If i pay full price for a PS3 game, im gona make dam sure i finish it...

[hideinlight]

I think it's bogus to use steam achievements for this, there are so many people who have hundreds of games in their collections from humble bundle, flash sales etc, and lots of people don't want to play indie title xx123, I think a far better option would've been to use xbox live/ PS trophy lists, I finish almost all my games, or well try to, but I'm finishing them in stages, not immediately after I've bought a game, it might take me a year to get to it and finish it, but i'll get there, so the stats are a bit bogus in my opinion...

The statistics for the games on Steam only count for the games that has been activated.

[Nemesis]

I think it's bogus to use steam achievements for this, there are so many people who have hundreds of games in their collections from humble bundle, flash sales etc, and lots of people don't want to play indie title xx123, I think a far better option would've been to use xbox live/ PS trophy lists, I finish almost all my games, or well try to, but I'm finishing them in stages, not immediately after I've bought a game, it might take me a year to get to it and finish it, but i'll get there, so the stats are a bit bogus in my opinion...

Using the trophy list can also skew the results. What would count as "completed the game"? Just finishing it on easy/medium, or going all out and getting the Plat (100%) and all that that entails? Some games, like The Walking Dead, you basically just have to play through the game to get the Plat (or 100% completion). Other games like The Last of Us, Ni No Kuni, Uncharted require a bit more effort or play throughs. Think after finishing TLOU it showed 5% complete. I have started a new play through on a harder difficulty, and I'm on 10% now, but still plenty to go. Ni No Kuni you can complete in 50 odd hours, but if you play normally that ends up being about a 42% or 46% according to the list. It just sometimes isn't worth it, or even fun, having to replay some games just to get a higher percentage according to your trophy list.

As for myself, I'm concentrating on a few titles which I would like to get as close to 100% as possible. Not because I have to, but because I like the challenge. Like Wlad said, if the game doesn't grip me or I loose interest halfway through I normally don't bother coming back to it later. There's just too many other quality games available or coming to keep me occupied for quite some time.

[Sin7]

Using the trophy list can also skew the results. What would count as "completed the game"? Just finishing it on easy/medium, or going all out and getting the Plat (100%) and all that that entails? Some games, like The Walking Dead, you basically just have to play through the game to get the Plat (or 100% completion). Other games like The Last of Us, Ni No Kuni, Uncharted require a bit more effort or play throughs. Think after finishing TLOU it showed 5% complete. I have started a new play through on a harder difficulty, and I'm on 10% now, but still plenty to go. Ni No Kuni you can complete in 50 odd hours, but if you play normally that ends up being about a 42% or 46% according to the list. It just sometimes isn't worth it, or even fun, having to replay some games just to get a higher percentage according to your trophy list.

As for myself, I'm concentrating on a few titles which I would like to get as close to 100% as possible. Not because I have to, but because I like the challenge. Like Wlad said, if the game doesn't grip me or I loose interest halfway through I normally don't bother coming back to it later. There's just too many other quality games available or coming to keep me occupied for quite some time.

I think in this case, if I were conducting the research myself, I would track the final achievement in the story progression, be that whatever (defeated xxx or completed chapter 9) on any difficulty, this will track most players' completion of narritive based games, they are arguing that as a 1/3rd of all gamers only complete the story mode, whats the point? and I'm just arguing the stats they based their research on is questionable, and as another guy commented, you need to look how far the player got into the narrative before just clean-cutting it, narrative is very important to me as a gamer, and sure the casual kids couldn't give a shit, but that's not what I want gaming to become, half-assed stroies just cause no-one cares