{"id":400,"date":"2007-11-16T20:52:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T19:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=400"},"modified":"2018-09-27T16:04:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T14:04:48","slug":"half-life-2-episode-two-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/11\/16\/half-life-2-episode-two-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-Life 2: Episode Two Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has <a href=\"http:\/\/steamgames.com\/status\/ep2\/ep2_stats.php\">posted their data on how <em>Half-Life 2: Episode Two<\/em> is played<\/a>. (Data collection quite reminiscent of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gaming\/virtualworlds\/magazine\/15-09\/ff_halo\">Microsoft&#8217;s work on Halo 3<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Average session time: 0h 27m<\/li>\n<li>Average total playtime: 4h 41m<\/li>\n<li>Average completion time : 6h 11m<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is wonderful because, hey, we actually had no idea what those numbers would be.<\/p>\n<p>The one number they don&#8217;t write is <em>what percentage of players completed the game<\/em>? If we for a moment boldly assume that the <em>majority <\/em>of players got the game around launch and will not get any further, the bottom graph indicates that the number is &lt;45%. Which means that &#8230; <em>the most common experience of playing HL2EP2 is that of not finishing it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That is a bit of a guess, of course. We would need to see what the data looks like in 6 months to know a more final figure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/halflife2ep2stats.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/halflife2ep2stats.gif\" alt=\"Half Life 2: Episode Two stats\" width=\"450\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also interesting, data on where people die on specific levels (marked in blue):<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"EP2 deaths\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ep2_outland_01_deaths.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ep2_outland_01_deaths.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"EP2 deaths\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has posted their data on how Half-Life 2: Episode Two is played. (Data collection quite reminiscent of Microsoft&#8217;s work on Halo 3.) Excerpt: Average session time: 0h 27m Average total playtime: 4h 41m Average completion time : 6h 11m This is wonderful because, hey, we actually had no idea what those numbers would be. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/11\/16\/half-life-2-episode-two-stats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Half-Life 2: Episode Two Stats&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}