Social Gaming Was Never Just a Tactic for Viral Growth..

By Adam Alsen, Julian Runge, Anders Drachen and Daniel Klapper Is social gaming merely a marketing tactic? The point has been made (e.g. Liew 2009) and was welcomed by parts of the community where long standing gamers like(d) to see casual social games (CSGs) as crippled social media versions of authentic, deeply immersive games. We…

The Playtime Principle: Mining 5 Billion Hours of Play on Steam

5 billion hours of play. 6 million players. 3000 games on Steam. 1 distribution model that explains how time spent playing games on Steam rises and falls – as a function of time. This has powerful implications: if playtime follows a specific distribution, we can predict it. This post was written by Anders Drachen, Rafet…

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Social Gaming Was Never Just a Tactic for Viral Growth..

The Playtime Principle: Mining 5 Billion Hours of Play on Steam