But you’ll see similar rates of players finishing the game that have far shorter runtimes. Engagement is a horrible metric for a game like Elden Ring that isn’t trying to keep you hooked with anything except a game you like playing; no battle pass, no dailies, no events, etc. I’ll bet A Dance With Dragons has far better engagement metrics than The Return of the King, but it’s a stupid metric regardless, because they’re books.
Because hours of play has no direct relationship with completion. Playing for 100+ hours doesn’t mean you’ve finished the game.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 days ago
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 5 days ago
NO direct relationship? maybe it’s not 1:1 but surely there is some kind of direct relationship.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Depends on your definition of “direct.”
I’ve played around 1k hours of Europa Universalis IV and I’ve never completed a campaign (gotten to the last year in the game), because I find I’ve completed my goals about halfway or two thirds of the way through the time line. The same goes for most Civ games, I just quit and restart once I know I’ve won.
I imagine Elden Ring is similar for many people, they play a character for a couple dozen hours and restart with a new character.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
definition of “direct.”
a direct relationship means the variables increase or decrease with each other, but not necessarily in the same proportion.
underwire212@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Why are you guys arguing? The chart means exactly what it says. People who have played the game with more than 100+ hours. It says nothing about people who’ve finished the game.
There’s probably some sort of positive relationship between the two, but we’d need mire information.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
i’m not the one who positively claimed there was no direct relationship, take your issue up with that person.
underwire212@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Lol ok
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
80 hours in and I’m nowhere near, I’m more likely to spin up a new character than to finish the thing
Sprinks@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Almost 200hrs in, level 150, and im maybe 3/4 done. I was never interested in soul like games before, or video games in general, but something about the open world experience in elden ring just pulled me in. I honestly couldnt tell you most of the story or the boss names, but god damn it was and still is a fucking blast grinding out the fights to figure out the mechanics.