Bioware has compiled and published some interesting player statistics for its critically acclaimed sci-fi RPG, Mass Effect 2, which was released earlier this year.
According to a report on IGN, the most played class by players at large was the Soldier, while the Engineer was the least played.
More facts
– The average player took 33 hours to complete the game.
– 80% of players chose the male Commander Shepard.
– Roughly 50% of players who started Mass Effect 2 finished it.
– Roughly 50% of players imported save games from the first game.
– There are people that spent 66 hours on a single play through.
– Two PC players completed Mass Effect 2 28 times.
– Four Xbox 360 players finished the game 23 times
– Players skipped 15% of conversations in Mass Effect 2
Information like this is being taken into consideration for future games, says Mass Effect Executive Producer Casey Hudson. “Let’s say if we want to know whether players skip lines of dialogue, we can have that become a little event that gets sent up. It’s all completely anonymous, so all we get is raw numbers for how many times these kinds of events occur. Then we can start getting ratios and comparing proportions and things like that. It becomes this mass of numbers, and then we have to try to figure out how we would interpret that.”
“Sometimes you’ll design something and think that it’s going to be used in a certain way and people will use it in a completely different way. And if you didn’t know that, then you would just keep making that system the same as you did before. But once you know what players like and what they don’t like, based on the way that they’re playing it, then you can make more of the good stuff and less of the stuff they weren’t interested in.”
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