{"id":411,"date":"2007-12-06T02:40:09","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T01:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=411"},"modified":"2007-12-06T02:40:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T01:40:46","slug":"ah-half-life-2-episode-one-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/12\/06\/ah-half-life-2-episode-one-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, Half-Life 2: Episode ONE Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=400\">Half-Life 2: Episode <em>Two<\/em> stats<\/a>, I had overlooked that the <a href=\"http:\/\/steampowered.com\/status\/ep1\/ep1_stats.php\">Episode One stats have been available for a long time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The big question: <em>What is the dominant way of experiencing this game? <\/em>The answer is a bit convoluted:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"gamesHelp\" class=\"rightCol_4\" style=\"display: block\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Games Completed (38.84%)<\/h2>\n<p>Our data indicates that while 50.64% of the players have reached the final map (as noted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/steampowered.com\/status\/ep1\/ep1_stats.php?gamesHelp#HighestMapPlayed\">Highest Map Played<\/a> graph below), only roughly half of those players have completed the game. This leads us to believe that either players are quitting before they see the credits, or there is a bug in how we collect this data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"gamesHelp\" class=\"rightCol_4\" style=\"display: block\">So we don&#8217;t really know.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting definitional issue is this: <strong>When do we know that someone <em>will not<\/em> complete a game?<\/strong> Personally, I have given up on very few games, so I have hundreds or more likely thousands of games that I am still playing on some level, even if I haven&#8217;t touched them for decades. I will finish <em>Elite<\/em> as soon as I get the time, I promise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous post on Half-Life 2: Episode Two stats, I had overlooked that the Episode One stats have been available for a long time. The big question: What is the dominant way of experiencing this game? The answer is a bit convoluted: &nbsp; Games Completed (38.84%) Our data indicates that while 50.64% of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/12\/06\/ah-half-life-2-episode-one-stats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ah, Half-Life 2: Episode ONE 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-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","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=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}