On-line recreation firm Cellular Premier League (MPL) this week launched a brand new research during which it reveals a development within the evaluations of a number of 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 unfavourable reactions to issues similar to updates and technical issues, however the distribution of their constructive and unfavourable sentiment can reveal totally different sentiments in the direction of totally 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 evaluations of these video games. An MPL spokesperson summed up the overall sentiment of those evaluations in an announcement, “The info reveals that quantity of downloads doesn’t essentially correlate with participant satisfaction. Video games with related market penetration can have drastically totally different participant sentiment profiles.”
For instance of the totally different participant emotions, the report exhibits numerous participant reactions to in-game monetization, and Sweet Crush Saga exhibits an enormous spike in unfavourable sentiment, with many evaluations particularly calling out intrusive adverts. Whereas most of the different video games confirmed an identical dissatisfaction with adverts, the elevated point out of such in that recreation’s adverts suggests players are sad with that individual monetization mannequin.
The report exhibits gamers have equally sturdy reactions to different in-game points, with Speaking Tom evaluations being constructive on gameplay whereas Ludo King exhibits numerous unfavourable mentions. Equally, Subway Surfers evaluations confirmed a excessive variety of constructive evaluations that point out in-game updates, whereas Free Fireplace gamers confirmed unfavourable sentiment in the direction of them.
It’s value retaining in thoughts that gamers who’ve unfavourable experiences and impressions with a recreation is perhaps extra inclined to go away a assessment 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.
