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World of Warcraft Finally Does Their Own Damn Metrics
November 30, 2006 10:24 am
They’re not very sophisticated, but they’re there!
Day-by-day reports of essentially the same data aren’t terribly useful, especially when they only cover seven days’ worth of history — it’s the changes over time that count, and textual lists of SELECT COUNT(*) … GROUP BY WHATEVER-WE’RE-TALKING-ABOUT aren’t the best way to find them. You could at least sort by the differences from the day before — usually not very interesting, unless some shit really hit the fan overnight, and that’s really only a big danger immediately after patches — or the differences from the week before, or the differences from the month before, or the differences from the last patch. Change is usually slow, as explorers and exploiters’ new discoveries are generally kept secret for a while. (This is why I normally advise fellow developers to not bother with a fancy metrics system that reports up-to-the-minute data — as a dev, you rarely care what people are doing right now.)
Now, metrics for player usage — the most auctioned items, for example — yes, I can see players being interested in what’s going on right now. But I imagine those who really care already subscribe to the previously mentioned wowecon.com and have a much better grasp on current auction house events.
Releasing any metrics to players is dangerous, even if they’re not very complex; I imagine the WoW boards are already full of players delighted to find that the quest completion stats prove some vendetta. I commend the effort and hope it doesn’t backfire too much.
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Wolfe wrote:
I dont think this data has much of a chance to cause trouble for Blizz, from what I can read from it nothing conflicts with the average 6th WoW-sense which probably says the same stuff to most experienced WoW players. Newbz might benefit from using this type of official stats to develop their 6th WoW-sense and catch up with the rest of the players a bit faster.
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