70% of games that require internet get destroyed

Data source: SKG- Dead Game List.xlsx – Google Sheets

Posted by CakePlanet75

17 comments

  2. It seems irresponsible to label games with no players but live yet empty servers as “dead.” Those are still playable; the audience simply lost interest.

    Edit: Maybe I’m misunderstanding whether “dead” in the chart means the same thing as “dead” on the third slide.

  3. Do I understand it right: At Risk == not Dead?

    If so, 313/738 is pretty good

    Fifa alone has over 6 Dead games and only one at Risk. Its really impressive how many games are still playable

  4. This could have been presented in a more beautiful way.

  5. So who’s going to pay to keep the servers up, certificates renewed, security protocols up to date etc. for some old game that 10 people want to play but don’t pay a subscription for? I don’t see how this is an issue

  7. Big respect for your choice of representation for the blue area.

  8. Why show two pie charts where one is just a subset of the other? It presents no new information and is just confusing.

  9. I feel like there have been more than 400 game titles that have been shut down but what do I know.

    Also the data source is an analysis of dead games, its gonna skew a particular way

  10. The third slide says that the “rendered unplayable” definition is “used on all videos on this channel”. This could be made more clear, after all this is not a video and we’re not on a YouTube channel.

    Also, listing multiple definitions in common use is fine for an hour-long discussion, but probably not the best idea for a few quick slides on Reddit.

  11. No, 70% of the games that require which have been shut down get destroyed

  12. I am only here to comment how I recognized the Warcraft 2 Paladin even though I haven’t touched the game in well over a decade.

  13. All the more reason why holding on to physical media is more important than ever

    Couldn’t be happier I gave away almost none of my old Gameboy, GBA, DS or 3DS games

  14. Meaningless data without showing the control. Maybe games not requiring a connection to the publisher do even worse?

  15. Ok. Can someone eli5 this for me? No clue on my end.

  16. Wow that seems misleading at best.

    – No info on timelines involved

    – The definitions of ‘dead’ include ‘fewer players than before’ (which hardly means dead) and ‘people choosing not to play’ ( I’d argue there is a major difference between ‘dead’ and ‘deserted’).

    – What exactly does ‘at risk’ mean? Because if that is the phrasing for ‘active and currently supported’ (which literally is not a category listed) that really makes this seem like a graph with an agenda – of the lies, damn lies, and statistics variety

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