On-line recreation firm Cell Premier League (MPL) this week launched a brand new examine during which it reveals a pattern within the opinions of among the hottest cell video games: Particularly, that most of the players who play these titles are sad with in-game promoting. Gamers can have related detrimental reactions to issues similar to updates and technical issues, however the distribution of their optimistic and detrimental sentiment can reveal completely different sentiments in the direction of completely different gameplay approaches.
For its analysis, MPL chosen the highest 5 most downloaded video games from Google Play as recognized by AppRadar’s 2024 report, after which analyzed the 75,000 most related person opinions of these video games. An MPL spokesperson summed up the final sentiment of those opinions in an announcement, “The data reveals that volume of downloads doesn’t necessarily correlate with player satisfaction. Games with similar market penetration can have drastically different player sentiment profiles.”
For example of the completely different participant emotions, the report exhibits numerous participant reactions to in-game monetization, and Sweet Crush Saga exhibits an enormous spike in detrimental sentiment, with many opinions particularly calling out intrusive advertisements. Whereas most of the different video games confirmed an identical dissatisfaction with advertisements, the elevated point out of such in that recreation’s advertisements suggests players are sad with that exact monetization mannequin.
The report exhibits gamers have equally robust reactions to different in-game points, with Speaking Tom opinions being optimistic on gameplay whereas Ludo King exhibits numerous detrimental mentions. Equally, Subway Surfers opinions confirmed a excessive variety of optimistic opinions that point out in-game updates, whereas Free Fireplace gamers confirmed detrimental sentiment in the direction of them.
It’s value maintaining in thoughts that gamers who’ve detrimental experiences and impressions with a recreation is perhaps extra inclined to depart a evaluate than those that have extra lukewarm or pleasant-but-unexceptional experiences. However MPL’s report is an attention-grabbing snapshot into participant satisfaction and engagement that goes past obtain numbers.
